If you are looking for a sportsperson who can transcend their discipline and be a fitting representative for your values around the world, you can’t do much better than Lewis Hamilton. He is a superb ambassador, a brilliant driver, and he continues to keep fans engaged with motorsport. So why is he still treated with such disrespect? Let’s get some irrelevancies out of the way first. There are some unfortunate moments from Hamilton’s back catalogue which can register a cringe; the juxtaposition between his environmental reasoning for turning vegan, while also spending £16m on a private jet - a literal emissions machine; his unfortunate description of Stevenage, his home town, and...
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