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Portuguese Grand Prix: Lewis Hamilton plans to race in 2022 Formula 1 season
By Andrew BensonChief F1 writer
Last updated on
29 April 202129 April 2021.From the section Formula 1
Lewis Hamilton is one point ahead of Max Verstappen in the Drivers Championship after two races
Lewis Hamilton says he intends to remain in Formula 1 for at least another season after this year.
The seven-time champion signed a one-year deal with Mercedes at the start of 2021 but said on Thursday that he plans to be in the sport next season.
He said he was enjoying his title fight with Red Bull s Max Verstappen and was determined to continue to fight against racism and for diversity.
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At least 20 organisations and individuals who were listed as stakeholders in the government’s race disparity commission have distanced themselves from the report and its findings.
The report by the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, released at the end of March, concluded that while racism and racial injustice still exist, geography, family influence, socioeconomic background, culture and religion all have a greater impact on life chances.
It was widely condemned by MPs, unions and equality campaigners as “divisive” and a missed opportunity for systematic change.
The 258-page report notes that the commission heard evidence from a number of organisations and individuals during the course of its work and it thanked them for their participation in an appendix.
As part of the Mercedes Formula 1 team’s efforts to improve diversity and inclusion, they have launched a five-year programme called ‘Accelerate 25’, which aims for 25% of new starters in their team to come from under-represented groups until the end of 2025.
The team, which launched a black livery for 2020 to mark a greater focus on diversity, have already begun steps in their Accelerate 25 programme with unconscious bias training for 200 recruiters within Mercedes, and diversity and inclusion training for 150 managers, with every employee to have taken the diversity training by June 2021.
The seven-time F1 constructors champions are also working with the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE-UK) to support engineers from BAME backgrounds, and have already begun working with the Mulberry STEM Academy to inspire more engineers from BAME backgrounds.