“It’s a really pivotal moment for the sport, in terms of what we project to the world. How it’s handled. And it’s not been handled very well to this point.”
Lewis Hamilton there, not for the first time on an important and sensitive subject, getting it spot on. The seven-time world champion was speaking last week ahead of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. Specifically, he’d been asked about the off-track controversies currently engulfing the championship. The Christian Horner/Red Bull situation has been running longest, but the question