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F1 working at 'grassroots racing level' to improve diversity

Formula 1 managing director Ross Brawn says the sport is seeking to address its lack of diversity by tackling the problem at racing's "grassroots level". The clamors and protests in the past week over racial injustice following the murder at the hands of a US police officer of George Floyd have brought to the forefront once again F1's lack of diversity, a flaw called out again amid the social unrest by six-time world champion Lewis Hamilton. Brawn qualified Hamilton's comments on social media and the Mercedes driver's support of the 'Black Lives Matter' movement as "very valid", while several of Hamilton's colleagues issued supportive messages on the same theme....
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