Daruvala can help F1 smash elitist barrier
FORMULA 1 is perhaps the most elitist sport you can get and is out of the vast majority of the world population’s reach.
Seven-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton remains the only black driver to have ever taken to the grid as the sport structurally excludes the vast majority of black people and people from the developing world.
According to Formula 1 Journalist Joe Saward, viewership of the sport dropped 8% in 2020 so it is essential that the sport reaches new fans in the developing world if it is to navigate into the future successfully.
