Motorsport UK chairman David Richards is pushing to make motorsport in the United Kingdom more accessible for younger people in a bid to “safeguard” the future of the sport. Motorsport UK is actively engaging with a high volume of youngsters from varying backgrounds to try and encourage greater participation in motorsport, which remains an expensive hobby and potential career path. Six-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton has recently been critical about the costs of getting into motorsport and spoken of his desire to help increase more diversity in F1, and Richards feels it is imperative that the outlook starts to change after being “too purist” in the past. “For far too...
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