News Details

Hamilton urges F1 icons Andretti and Stewart to 'educate' themselves

Lewis Hamilton is holding steady on his anti-racism activism, hitting back at two of motorsport greatest icons who believe the Briton is exaggerating F1's diversity problems. While Hamilton has addressed F1's lack of diversity in the past and spoke of his experience of discrimination during his formative years in the sport, the six-time world champion has ramped up his activism in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May. Hamilton led F1's driver community to take a knee on the grid in Austria and the act was repeated at the following two races. F1's only back driver in history has also spurred on the sport's commercial rights holder Liberty Media to take concrete steps...
Full Story »
5y ago from F1i.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Hamilton: Andretti and Stewart's reactions are...

Six-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton says he is disappointed...
5y ago from GrandPrix247.com

Hamilton: Andretti 'militant' comments 'disappointing'

Lewis Hamilton says he is disappointed with the recent comments made by...
5y ago from SkySports.com

Stewart joins Andretti: "Problem not as big as it...

Er is de afgelopen mand veel gezegd over een gebrek aan diversiteit in de...
5y ago from GPBlog.com

Hamilton responds: "Hope that Andretti can take...

Lewis Hamilton responded to Mario Andretti. The American spoke out about...
5y ago from GPBlog.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Pierre Gasly invests in MotoGP with KTM Tech3 stake

Pierre Gasly has become the first active F1 driver to invest in an Moto...
12h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

3 deadline day solutions as Arsenal look to react to...

Arsenal’s deadline-day thinking has been thrown into chaos by the injury...
4h ago from FreshArsenal.com

Papers: Arsenal weighing up Deadline Day signing after...

The top stories and transfer rumours from Monday's newspapers...
5h ago from SkySports.com

Blow for Arsenal as star player set for a...

Arsenal are facing a significant injury blow with Mikel Merino set for a...
9h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Merino out for 'extended period' with foot injury

Mikel Merino will undergo surgery on a bone injury in his right foot...
8h ago from SkySports.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.