If he had say something against Arab, Indians, Chinese, or African countries, their would be a huge outcry. But for some reason it is striking that this type of comments on (or against) Latin Americans never elicit the same level of outrage. I see it often in the US.

@arthurgd3 Red Bull GmbH will keep letting him say those things because that's the whole point of Servus TV.

Dietrich Mateschitz was a far-right extremist (Americans would call him alt-right) and has spent most of his life promoting these views with the help of his immense fortune. It's in the company's interest for someone as prominent as Marko to make these comments and thus embolden other far-right extremists.

Don’t know which is Armchair’s point but there is a point. People say all the time the wildest thing agains white people and (particularly if the targets are male, hetero, cis and not disabled) almost nobody finds it reprehensible.

That’s my non-white 2c anyway

Nationality and race are not the same. Sweeping generalizations about a nation’s citizens are mostly wrong but not necessarily racist. If, say, some Norwegian states: “All Danes are lazy” this is silly but really does not strike me as a racist comment. Same for religions etc.

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@ryanoceros it was in the round up the other day. The worst of what he said is quoted in this article. The man is a disgrace. I've never liked his ruthless attitude to drivers but you can't argue that it gets results (for the most part), however, this kind of openly racist comment is beyond the pale.

I would hope that the current Management of Red Bull would start getting away from that sort of stuff soon. Marko should defenitely be, since he's not even had much success with their great junior program after Ricciardo, pushing through various drivers at the wrong time for them just to fill the gap. Verstappen doesn't count, he was guided up the ladder by his father and was in talks with Mercedes, but Marko/RB were able to buy him away from their rivals with the promise of a STR drive when Mercedes could only offer a reserve driver role and the promise of maybe something in the future.

Of course, when geology and geography meet, there is rarely full consensus.

Central America is generally considered to be a part of the North American continent.

ServusTV has a long history of inviting people from the political fringes on under the guise of an ‘open platform’. And those fringes are usually not of the communist variety.

That caused me to do a quick set of searches about Servus TV.
Ah, close associations with "fringes" that might think Genghis Khan was a peace-loving left-wing "woke" thinker.

What’s your point, Armchair ? Because Montoya is racist (or made a racist comment) then it’s fine to be ?

I liked Montoya as a driver, but he never stroke me as an intellectual reference, if you see what I mean. Having said that, he’s just a driver, not a director representing a brand.

Marko should be fired like vips and Larson were, at the minimum. This is so much worse that swearing using the wrong words on a gaming platform…

Well that speaks volumes and it makes it even worse for Marko and Red Bull. It makes it hard to believe that Marko made an ‘honest’ mistake and was not speaking his mind - probably fully aware of what he was saying wouldn’t be okay with the majority of the people outside of the Servus TV spectrum. It would be hypocritical of Red Bull to let Marko keep his position with this mediocre apology - while expelling Vips from the Red Bull program for very similar reasons. The implications of how Red Bull react will be major. Perez has been put in a very awkward situation - and it almost feels is if they are trying to bully him into giving up on his seat. I guess in a normal working situation you might even consider suing your employer and resign. At least Marko has made it very difficult to replace Perez before the end of his contract.

Helmut does PR now, you must be new to F1

Also they fired / expelled Juri Vips for very similar reasons from the Red Bull program - Red Bull can’t in their right mind let Marko continue with this half arsed apology.