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Lewis Hamilton speaks openly about the problem of racism more than once. His team boss Toto Wolff also acknowledges the problem and points to Hamilton’s past, which he still struggles with.
Hamilton regularly works in Formula 1 on topics such as equality and the fight against racism. The seven-time world champion has more than once opened up about his difficult childhood, in which, according to himself, he often had to deal with discrimination and racism. According to Hamilton, it was therefore difficult to get to where he is today.
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Wolff recognizes the difficult road Hamilton has had to travel and sees that his scars from the past provide motivation and ambition in the Briton. “As a child, he was insulted on the go-kart track. White parents forbade their children to hang out with him. That left big scars on Hamilton,” the Austrian told Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.
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The team boss of Mercedes indicates that he and Hamilton often spoke over the years about Hamilton’s fraught subject and troubled past. “For him racing was an outlet to show himself to the world. It still is today. Topics like this put us in the comfort zone in the difficult moments. Coming out of a gray and cold Siberia, it’s beautiful all over the world,” he concludes metaphorically.
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