The six-time world champion has never steered clear of uncomfortable discussions on race, which makes him uniquely suited to square his sport’s thorny past with a better tomorrow
Lewis Hamilton has always been a man apart. The higher he rises in the highest form of auto racing, the lonelier it gets at the top. Before the
Coronavirus put life as we’d come to know it on pause, right as the
Formula One season was revving up for a mid-March kickoff, the ace Mercedes pilot stood on the brink of statistical immortality, merely eight victories and a world championship shy of becoming the greatest to ever do it. That the 35-year-old Briton also happened to be born to a Caucasian mother and a black father makes his singular status in this lily white game at once a breakthrough and a burden. And a brother can only bear a weight that heavy for so long before his legs go all wobbly.
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