“Formula 1 Has Become a Billionaire Boy-Club”: Lewis Hamilton
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The 7-Time World Champion Lewis Hamilton blasts Formula 1 for being a Billionaire Boy-Club and says that he would have not made it big if he were to start in the current year and scenario. Hamilton’s key notion has come with the Monaco Grand Prix just a day away as he is embarking on an unprecedented eighth world title, with his tally of 98 victories and 100 poles better than anyone else.
Over the past few years, Hamilton has become an increasingly vocal campaigner for diversity. The World Champion had said at the start of the season that the biggest priority of his career was not adding his championship tally, but to fight and engage for greater diversity in the sport.
Lewis Hamilton Blasts Formula 1 and says he would have not made it big if he were to start now
Hamilton, who has built his way up, is right. F1 has long been littered with rich benefactors and currently three drivers on the circuit –Lance Stroll, Nikita Mazepin and Nicholas Latifi, all have billionaire fathers. There are many more from privileged backgrounds such as Max Verstappen and Mick Schumacher, as both their fathers competed in F1, while Lando Norris’s father is one of the richest men in Britain.
Hamilton famously grew up on a council estate in Stevenage. His father, Anthony took on four jobs to put him through karting ranks. He got his big break at the age of 13 when McLaren signed him to their driver development programme, turning him into the most prepared newcomer in the sport’s history.
“We live in a time where this sport has become a billionaire boys’ club,” Hamilton said. “If I go back to where I started, growing up in a normal working class family, there’s no way that I could be here. No way.”
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