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I am in the same boat . As a kid , I am ashamed to admit that the South African GP never troubled me , with rampant apartheid and Mandela banged up . I have grown up a lot since and became progressively more disgusted as Ecclestone toadied up to appalling regimes like Putin's Russia (which the stupid old fool still praises) and the slew of medieval absolute monarchs , fat on petro dollars . I hold my nose when I watch GPs there, but am not proud of the fact I still do.
As for this who say international sport and politics don't mix - in a sense they are right , because they are one and the same. Would anybody watch a Russian GP now or one held in Assad's Syria?
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