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Hamilton urges F1 icons Andretti and Stewart to 'educate' themselves

Lewis Hamilton is holding steady on his anti-racism activism, hitting back at two of motorsport greatest icons who believe the Briton is exaggerating F1's diversity problems. While Hamilton has addressed F1's lack of diversity in the past and spoke of his experience of discrimination during his formative years in the sport, the six-time world champion has ramped up his activism in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May. Hamilton led F1's driver community to take a knee on the grid in Austria and the act was repeated at the following two races. F1's only back driver in history has also spurred on the sport's commercial rights holder Liberty Media to take concrete steps...
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