![]() "Basically I’m a friend of Tom Cruise," the 37-year-old Mercedes driver said. The seven times world champion told Vanity Fair he had been desperate for a part. In his autobiography, published in 2007 after his first year in F1, Hamilton declared, "For me, race is not an issue at all." His perspective "evolved over time, but the greatest change came" in response to the "racial upheavals" in 2020, when Hamilton "led his sport’s reaction to these troubled times." For instance, he successfully encouraged "most of his fellow drivers to take a knee" and persuaded his team to rebrand its cars in a black paint job ( VANITY FAIR, 8/8).Lewis Hamilton says he had to turn down an offer to feature as a fighter pilot in Tom Cruise's hit movie Top Gun: Maverick because of his Formula One commitments. Mercedes F1 driver Lewis Hamilton was featured in the cover story of Vanity Fair's September issue, which points out that Hamilton is "now one of most famous athletes on earth, even more so since Netflix’s documentary series Formula 1: Drive to Survive brought his sport to a new audience, particularly in the U.S." Given all that Hamilton has achieved, it "might be reasonable to imagine that any lingering tensions between his need for individual self-expression and his sport’s diktats and conventions would have been ironed out or dissipated long ago."īefore Hamilton entered F1, there had never been a Black F1 driver. Lewis Hamilton launches new charity, invests $28M.Lewis Hamilton supports drivers' LGBTQ+ gesture.
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