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Ecclestone: No knee-taking allowed if I were in charge

Bernie Ecclestone has kicked a hornet's nest by declaring that seven-times Formula 1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton is being used by the Black Lives Matter movement and says he would not condone such protests had he been in charge. Interviewed exclusively by the Telegraph, Ecclestone said: 'I've said to his father[Anthony Hamilton] that Lewis needs to be careful because he's being used by the people who are supporting this Black Lives Matter and they are taking a lot of money from it. And nobody knows where it goes. 'If I'd still been around there wouldn't have been anyone wearing t-shirts on the podium, that's for sure. One hundred per cent, there wouldn't have been this business of...
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