The Week: Advertising News - TBWA in F1 race furore

A Spanish website that directed racist abuse at the recently crowned Formula One world champion, Lewis Hamilton, has been unmasked as being owned by the Omnicom ad agency TBWA\Group. The site was created by Tequila\ to support the F1 driver Fernando Alonso, but appears to have been left unmoderated during the period that the comments were posted. TBWA has taken the site down.

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