Beat the Man at his own game, and open it up for the next Black Champion!
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He is the face of F1, but also its voice and conscience and has used his stature like no other F1 world champion.
F1's first and only Black world champion in its 70-year history, this year he became one of sport's leading voices in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
With Hamilton being a force for change, Mercedes -- famous for its silver livery -- unveiled an all-black car for this season in solidarity with Black Lives Matter, with the drivers wearing black uniforms and the halos of both cars featuring the call to "End Racism."
Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Hamilton said: "It is no secret that I have walked this sport alone as the only person of color here.
"When I was younger I didn't have anybody in the sport that looked like me so it was easy to think that's not possible to get there because nobody of your colour has ever been there, you don't see any Black people in F1.
The Briton's own incredible story -- his father, Anthony, juggled three jobs, re-mortgaged the family home and dipped into his life savings to keep his son in karting -- is an example of how notoriously difficult the sport is to enter, mainly because of the financial costs involved.
'I have walked this sport alone,' says Lewis Hamilton after record-equaling title win
Lewis Hamilton may be Formula One's most successful driver but after securing a record-equaling seventh world title on Sunday the Briton said he still had plenty left to achieve -- namely making his sport and the world "more diverse and inclusive."
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He is the face of F1, but also its voice and conscience and has used his stature like no other F1 world champion.
F1's first and only Black world champion in its 70-year history, this year he became one of sport's leading voices in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
With Hamilton being a force for change, Mercedes -- famous for its silver livery -- unveiled an all-black car for this season in solidarity with Black Lives Matter, with the drivers wearing black uniforms and the halos of both cars featuring the call to "End Racism."
Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Hamilton said: "It is no secret that I have walked this sport alone as the only person of color here.
"When I was younger I didn't have anybody in the sport that looked like me so it was easy to think that's not possible to get there because nobody of your colour has ever been there, you don't see any Black people in F1.
The Briton's own incredible story -- his father, Anthony, juggled three jobs, re-mortgaged the family home and dipped into his life savings to keep his son in karting -- is an example of how notoriously difficult the sport is to enter, mainly because of the financial costs involved.
