“I remember the first day I wanted to kneel, I didn’t feel like I could tell my team because I felt like they wouldn’t understand how important it was to me,” said the record world champion in the podcast “On Purpose”.
Hamilton also initially hid his Black Lives Matter shirt, which he later appeared on the starting line-up with. Other drivers also wore black T-shirts with the words “End Racism” written on them.
Afterwards, Hamilton’s team pointed out to him that they could have prepared better for the action if he had inaugurated it. “But I had this fear that maybe they would try to stop me. But that was just a fear,” said Hamilton, who had been particularly committed to diversity at the time. By kneeling, he wanted to send a signal against racism. The role model was football star Colin Kaepernick, who had previously used this gesture to protest against police violence.
Before the 2020 Austrian Grand Prix, the first since the outbreak of the corona pandemic, 14 of the 20 Formula 1 drivers got on one knee as a gesture for more diversity.
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