Anthony Hamilton's working class story of how he managed to get his son Lewis Hamilton into Formula 1 is the stuff of legend, but he fears that in future only pay drivers will be able to make their way onto the grid and talented drivers will simply not make it due to lack of funding. Hamilton told The Independent, 'Junior motorsport is still fragmented and expensive and that alone doesn’t encourage those with a dream of Formula One to enter the sport, or for the genuine cream to rise to the top.' 'Formula One could end up with the majority of drivers paying for their drives, rather than earning them through being a junior champion. In our day we just worked hard with what we had and...
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