"I never asked or expected anyone to kneel. I never even mentioned it. It was the F1 and Grand Prix Drivers' Association that did it." Lewis Hamilton thus replied to those who asked him to comment on the gesture of the six 'dissidents' who had not knelt on the starting grid of the Austrian GP, in a gesture of solidarity with the anti-racist movement 'Black lives matter'.
"I just described a scenario where silence equals complicity," added the world champion, the first black driver in Formula 1 history.
Words that seemed in response to an article in the British tabloid Daily Mail that states that "privately, a number of drivers have been annoyed by Hamilton's insistence on forcing them to kneel" during a GPDA meeting held on Friday evening. .
F1, Hamilton: 'Never asked other drivers to kneel'
2020-07-08T17:34:34.208Z
"I never asked or expected anyone to kneel. I never even mentioned it. It was the F1 and Grand Prix Drivers' Association that did it." (HANDLE)