Lewis Hamilton

[Bibendum]

A short while back, someone posted a question about when F1 would have a black/openly gay/female/Muslim driver, and this spurred some interesting discussion. One thread in common, as one would expect, was that the basic requirement was (to paraphrase T.S. Eliot) to just be very good. Well, here is an article in today's Guardian online that suggests the possibility that an Englishman, of Trinidadian extraction, may answer the question once and for all.

Hamilton smashes the barriers

I for one think this would be a healthy development, not because F1 has some mandate to be demographically representative, but because its (almost) pure white complexion speaks, to me, of a degree of exclusion and class-boundness that makes me uncomfortable.

Has anyone in Britain seen this guy race? I'd be interested to hear about it.

best,
Bibendum (and sorry for the lousy intermediates!)