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Andretti finds Hamilton pretentious: "He creates a problem that doesn't exist"

Lewis Hamilton has campaigned extensively against racism in general and in Formula 1 in recent weeks. He did so on social media and during the Grand Prix weekends. For example, he made the 'Black Power' gesture on the podium in Austria. Former world champion Mario Andretti thinks Hamilton is going too far with this. "I respect Lewis very much, but why become a militant? He has always been accepted and earned the respect of the whole world. I think the goal of this is pretentious. So I feel it and he is creating a problem that does not exist", said the last American world champion in the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio. Read more Black Power gesture on stage a moment that...
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