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Lewis Hamilton explains how he is not motivated solely by sporting success anymore, he is now looking to make a more lasting impact.
In recent years Lewis Hamilton has used his voice and resources to help several important causes relating to equality, racial justice, the environment and more.
In an interview with Channel 4, the seven-time champion explains how he is now driven by a desire to help people.
“It’s different and it’s unmarked territory,“ the Briton said.
“There’s a different thing that I’m fuelled slightly differently than I was when I was going for my first [title] when I was 22 years old.
“When I was 22 years old it was about me and my family and it was just about us, it was about us achieving a thing that we were told that we would not be able to do.
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“Now, you’ve seen over this past year I’ve got a fire, I’m pushing to help try and work with the sport to become more diverse in the following years, so that is like a side focus that I have.
“Starting Mission 44 and starting in my new contract, putting it in the negotiations saying to Mercedes ‘I want to do something far greater than winning World Championships’.
“‘I want to win World Championships with you but at the same time want to help youngsters to get into the sport that are coming from different backgrounds’.
“So that is like a real big focus for me, and seeing the response has been positive and seeing the progress that we are starting to embark on, that fuels me.
“I think it’s important to find inspiration from different things and helping people now is a big part of that,” concluded Hamilton.
