Winning a Formula One Grand Prix race is no mean feat, and deserves to be celebrated with a few bottles of fine bubbly to the face. That’s face as in mouth though, because sometimes you don’t want to waste the goodness that is quality champagne. This is something Lewis Hamilton will do well to learn.

The Formula One ace celebrated his second win of the season at Sunday’s Chinese Grand Prix in his trademark fashion – by spraying a bottle of champagne straight into the face of one of the hostesses. This has raised the ire of many including Roz Hardie, chief executive of Object, a campaign on media sexism and ‘sex object culture’. The Daily Mail quotes her as follows:

‘The photographs appear to show that the woman is not just being splashed, but that the champagne is being very specifically directed into her face, which does not look like a voluntary piece of horseplay on her part.

‘If this if the case we think Lewis Hamilton should apologise for his actions and think carefully about how he behaves in the future. For most people, it would be apparent that she is not enjoying it.

‘It is surely a very difficult position to be a grid girl and she would have had little option but to stand there and take it. That is something of which he should be aware. But instead, he appears to have abused her position.

There is a history here, as the below picture from last year’s Spanish Grand Prix shows.

I think the first issue we should address is why in this day and age we even have pit girls and hostesses. The World Endurance Championship recently announced their decision to do away with pit girls, offering this explanation:

I suppose it’s a start. Here’s hoping Lewis Hamilton gets a cork popped in his eye at the next Formula One race.

[source:dailymail]