Lewis Hamilton says ‘work still needs to be done’ after Helmut Marko’s comments about Sergio Perez. The former Formula 1 driver is now the head of driver development at Red Bull R…
"Whilst we say there is no room for any type of discrimination within this sport which there should be - no room for it - to have leaders and people in his position making comments like this is not good for us moving forwards. I think it just highlights, firstly, the work that still needs to be done.
"There are a lot of people in the background that really are trying to combat these sorts of things but it's hard to manoeuvre if there are people in the top that have those sort of mindsets, that just stop us from progressing. Not surprised, to be honest." He added: "I think this is not something that you just apologise [for] and it's all okay. I think there needs to be more done.
"Teams, when they've had individuals, particularly drivers, make comments but [also] some individuals in the background - they usually are removed or at least they put out a quote and say they don't support that sort of thing.
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