How is it that over two years on from Formula 1’s very public display of willingness to increase inclusivity that we’re still talking about Lewis Hamilton being spoken about in racially derogatory terms by one of the sport’s most successful drivers? The ‘We Race as One’ campaign and pre-race ‘taking a knee' gesture might have disappeared from the usual grid procedure this season, but you’d have been hard-pushed to miss the global movement to eradicate racism in all its forms from wider society, using sport as a catalyst. And yet, in the middle of 2022, despite plenty of work that has been going on behind the scenes, on the surface it seems that very little has changed....
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