The Briton, who became the sport's first black world champion in 2008, also referred to his colour in post-race comments as he vented his frustration.
"It's an absolute...joke," Hamilton told the BBC in broadcast comments. "I've been to see the stewards five times out of six this season.
"Maybe it's because I'm black. That's what Ali G says," added the 26-year-old jokingly, referring to a fictional white character acted by British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.
Hamilton finished sixth on Sunday despite collecting two drive-through penalties, one of them imposed retrospectively, for collisions in the heat of battle on the tight and twisty street circuit.
The first incident ended the race for Ferrari's Brazilian Felipe Massa, who crashed in the tunnel after the cars came together at the hairpin, while the second wrecked Venezuelan rookie Pastor Maldonado's hopes of first points for Williams.
Hamilton told reporters after he had calmed down that he had been back to see the stewards -- one of them former F1 racer and fellow-Briton Allan McNish -- to explain himself and make peace.
"I just made them aware that, when emotions are high and very intense at the end of those races, you don't always say the right thing," he said.MORE
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