INSIDER

01 LEWIS HAMILTON TACKLES SOCIAL JUSTICE

02 WHO WILL BUY FORMULA 1’S FALLEN GREATS?

03 POWER BEHIND MERC POWERTRAIN TO GO

F1 JOINS HAMILTON’S DIVERSITY PUSH

01 Lewis Hamilton has moved decisively to use the full weight of his star power to add momentum to the Black Lives Matter movement. Both the FIA and Formula 1 have responded with initiatives to promote diversity, and Hamilton himself has teamed up with the Royal Academy of Engineering to launch a ‘Hamilton Commission’ with the aim of making motorsport “as diverse as the complex and multicultural world we live in”.

Using a self-penned article in the Sunday Times as a platform from which to announce the project, Hamilton added: “the time for platitudes and token gestures is over”.

Against a wider tapestry of revulsion over the killing of George Floyd unleashing waves of social unrest and protests again inequality, Hamilton first spoke up via his social media channels to ‘call out’ the motorsport community over its silence on the