News Details

Hamilton Commission publishes motorsport diversity report

The Hamilton Commission published its report on Tuesday with 10 recommendations for change and some damning insights into the industry. The Commission was established last year by seven-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton. The report, led by the Royal Academy of Engineering, found that none of the seven British-based F1 teams or 4,000 UK motorsport companies had ethnicity data for employees. An estimate, however, suggested that only 1% of the 40,000 strong workforce was Black. Rhys Morgan, director at the Royal Academy, told reporters the research also found examples of 'quite horrible racist comments', which he said were waved away as ‘banter'. One F1 engineer said he had...
Full Story »
2y ago from GrandPrix247.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Commission initiated by Hamilton demands more...

Last year Lewis Hamilton launched a commission in conjunction with the...
2y ago from GPBlog.com

Hamilton Commission report released, identifies areas...

A report into how a lack of diversity and equality can be tackled within...
2y ago from MotorsportWeek.com

F1 ready to act on "comprehensive" Hamilton...

Formula 1 president and CEO Stefano Domenicali acknowledged "there is...
2y ago from GPFans.com

Hamilton Commission reveals findings

Lewis Hamilton says he is committed to helping implement the changes...
2y ago from SkySports.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Lundqvist first driver to crash in Indy 500 practice

Linus Lundqvist earned the unceremonious label on Thursday of being the...
36m ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.