Wolff: "It's good that Lewis as a sports superstar is the one up front with it"

Toto Wolff is proud of how Lewis Hamilton has spoken out against racism. The team boss at Mercedes thinks it's a good thing that the incident with George Floyd has given so much attention to discrimination at the moment.

"I was lucky enough that I was raised in a household with different nationalities, that I lived with a Jewish family for a long time when my family faced tough times, and I saw what discrimination looked like as an early child already", reports Wolff, quoted by Autosport.com and others.

Although Wolff knows from experience that it is not easy to deal with such things, he does believe that the world can change with each other. "I think all of us have the power to make a change, and sometimes it needs events like the ones that happened a few days ago in the US to trigger a massive wave of support for any minority", says the Austrian chief.

Hamilton leads the way

In any case, Hamilton is working hard for a world without racism. "I think it's good that Lewis as a sports superstar is the one up front with it, in a sport that is very much dominated by white males. We as a team encourage diversity. We choose our people purely on performance and don't look on any culture, religion or skin colour", Wolff concludes his story.