Independent Sage expert who warned against reopening is race adviser with no medical qualification
Dr Zubaida Haque also criticised Matt Hancock for his comments on vaccine hesitancy
18 May 2021 • 8:00pm
Dr Zubaida Haque said the UK Government should have stalled the lockdown reopening this week because the UK has failed to pass its own test of not being at further risk from new coronavirus variants
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A member of Independent Sage who berated the Government on Tuesday for not delaying the easing of Covid-19 restrictions in Britain is a social scientist turned race adviser who has no medical qualifications.
Hamilton among Forbes’ world’s highest-paid athletes
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May 13 2021
Sir Lewis Hamilton placed eighth on Forbes’ top 10 list of the world’s highest-paid athletes for 2021, earning a reported $82m (£58.5m) on and off track.
This is the second time Hamilton has placed in the top 10, having been tenth on the list back in 2017, earning $46m (£32.8m) in that year.
The seven-time World Champion’s wages at Mercedes are supplemented with personal sponsorships from several team partners, with Hamilton also investing in new projects away from Formula 1.
In direct competition with former team-mates Jenson Button and Nico Rosberg, Hamilton has also launched his own team in the newly-founded Extreme E series – called X44.
Mercedes’ ‘Accelerate 25’ programme to increase diversity in motorsport engineering is moving at full steam, and on Thursday the team announced they have launched a new partnership with the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers UK (AFBE-UK).
The Accelerate 25 programme aims to have at least 25% of new employees at Mercedes come from under-represented groups every year up to and including 2025. To that aim, the Silver Arrows have already launched the STEM Academy partnership with the help of Lewis Hamilton and Toto Wolff, along with a partnership with the Stemettes to encourage women into pursuing STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) careers.
Hamilton realised embarrassing people not the answer in equality push
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Seven-time world champion Hamilton has become outspoken on the issue of equality and knelt ahead of every Formula One race last season.
Ahead of the season, Hamilton had called out F1 as white dominated and criticised the championship for its silence around the death of George Floyd. He soon started working with F1 to fix the issue of equality in the championship and has also launched and funded the Hamilton Commission to help motorsport engage more young people from black backgrounds and drive diversity.
Thursday 1 April 2021
On Sunday August 2, 2020, Lewis Hamilton was piloting his black Mercedes Formula 1 car around the final laps of the British Grand Prix at Silverstone when his front-left tyre exploded.
It was a scorching summer day in the heart of England. Beyond the titanium ring of the car’s protective halo device, Hamilton could see picture-book clouds scudding across a brilliant blue sky, broken only by the angular shapes of grandstands kept empty by the pandemic.
But the conditions – the heat, and a risky strategy brought on by an early crash – were wreaking havoc with the 20 vehicles that had started the fourth race of the truncated 2020 season. F1 cars are temperamental beasts and, in the current era of the sport, drivers must carefully manage the conditions and temperature of their tyres. Too cold, and the rubber remains stiff – it fails to provide the grip they need, sliding over the road surface like a puck on ice. Too hot, and it starts to degrade – wear