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Talks needed with drivers who won't kneel - Hamilton

Aug.5 "More conversations" should take place to convince drivers like Kevin Magnussen to kneel down before races, according to Lewis Hamilton. Having kneeled for anti-racism with 14 other drivers in Austria and Hungary, Haas driver Magnussen elected to stand up with six of his peers at Silverstone. "I do not fully support what the organisation Black Lives Matter stands for," the Dane told Algemeen Dagblad newspaper. Hamilton's boss Toto Wolff said the six-time world champion is justified in crusading against racism. "We as middle-aged white men can never put ourselves in a situation of someone who has been racially abused," the Mercedes chief told the...
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