Other team bosses also condemned the words spoken by Marko in a ServusTV interview in which he linked Sergio Perez’s form to his cultural heritage, and angered the driver’s fellow Mexicans by placing the country in South rather than North America.
The comments created a stir on social media and led to a public statement from Marko as well as a personal apology to Perez.
Asked by Autosport about the matter in an FIA press conference in Singapore, all the F1 team bosses stressed Marko was in the wrong.
“Stereotyping these days doesn't work anymore,” said Haas team principal Guenther Steiner. “We need to be careful what we say.
“Sometimes it's very difficult to do, because what you say, you don't mean it, and then you shouldn't say it, obviously, if you're aware of it.
"I didn't hear it, because I could have understood in German how it was said, so I just read it, and maybe in translation it maybe sounds different.
“But I think it is what it is. And I think they are dealing with it. And I was surprised to hear that Mexico was in South America!"
Wolff made it clear that he took the matter very seriously, and that it was not good for F1 as a whole.
"We're laughing about South America,” said the Austrian. “But it's a topic that's not at all funny. And it's not only what has been said, but it's the mindset, that you can even come up with these things. And that hasn't got any place in F1.
“That's not something that should have been said in the past, and certainly not now, and in the future.
Source: Autosport