CNN Sports | Lewis Hamilton targeted with racist abuse online after controversial British Grand Prix victory

Lewis Hamilton celebrates on the podium at Silverstone.

(CNN) – Lewis Hamilton was the target of online racist abuse after winning his eighth British Grand Prix on Sunday.

The seven-time world champion fought back from a 10-second penalty to clinch victory following a controversial collision with rival Max Verstappen, which left the Red Bull driver in hospital.

Facebook, which also owns Instagram, said it had removed a number of comments from its platform in relation to Hamilton, who has been a huge advocate for diversity and the Black Lives Matter movement, and called the abuse “unacceptable.”  —read more—

Hamilton and Max Verstappen take a curve side-by-side at the start of the British Grand Prix.