No more traditional and historic silver livery of the Mercedes F1, the famous Silver Arrows! For the 2020 season which begins Friday in Austria on the RedBull Ring, the German single-seaters by Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas will sport new colors: a deep black.
The team, which has engaged Lewis Hamilton since 2013, justifies this radical change by its desire to emphasize its position “Against all forms of racism and discrimination […] The world has changed since F1 gathered in Australia (for what was to be the start of the F1 season). In the past five weeks, continues the press release from the AMG Mercedes F1 team, movement Black Lives Matter has shown how much we need action to combat racism and all forms of discrimination. As a team, we listened to the team members to see how to reflect what it is today and should be in the future. For 2020, we have chosen, through this new livery, to publicly express our desire to improve diversity in our team where only 3% of employees belong to ethnic minorities and where only 12% are women. We need to find new approaches to attract talent from different spheres of society that we do not yet touch and we know that by achieving this, our team will only come out stronger. ”
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“It is so important to seize this moment to change mentalities
Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes F1 driver
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The call for “The end of racism (End Racism)” will feature on Hamilton and Bottas F1 halo and joint F1 world initiative #WeRaceAsOne will be carried over to the mirrors.
Lewis Hamilton has been personally involved in this fight for the past few weeks, with clear positions taken following the death of George Floyd, an African-American man who was killed by a white police officer during his arrest on May 25. latest.
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He said: “It is so important, whether you are an individual or a brand, to seize this moment for our own education, in order to change mentalities to ensure equality and integration. I have personally experienced racism in my life – my family, too – and I call this change from the bottom of my heart. When I spoke to Toto (Wolff, director of Mercedes F1) of my hopes, he immediately replied that he considered it important for the team to preserve its unity.
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I would like to thank him and Mercedes for taking the time to listen to me, to understand my passion for this subject and to choose this strong signal of our desire for change. We want to build something that goes beyond the sporting field and if we can be opinion leaders by this action and bring more diversity in our business, it can give confidence to others to start a new dialogue on how which they can introduce the change. “
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