Feb.6 (GMM) Lewis Hamilton will return to Spain for two more pre-season tests in February, despite the continuing racist abuse directed towards formula one's only black driver.

"We will monitor events very closely at the forthcoming formula one tests," a spokesman for the governing FIA told The Guardian on Tuesday, in anticipation of Hamilton's upcoming run at Jerez and, late this month, back at Circuit de Catalunya.

After the racial abuse during testing last weekend, it now emerges that Spanish bigots have taken to insulting the 23-year-old McLaren driver on website comment pages.

One racist wrote in the Spanish sports daily Marca: "Drivers should drive, little monkeys should stay in the jungle and stop talking rubbish".

Another said: "Hamilton, at the end of the day you're not black, you're brown, like shit".

In the comments section of the Catalan sports newspaper El Mundo, one reader wrote: "Hello, I'm Hamilton and I'm going to talk to you in my language: uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh".

The publications endeavoured to remove all of the racist comments.