During his career in Formula 1, Lewis Hamilton He managed to become one of the best drivers in the entire history of this class. At 37 years old, he has won seven world titles, over 100 victories and nearly 200 podiums, and is still writing his accomplishments. However, in an exclusive interview for Vanity Fair, the British runner opened up and gave chilling details about his life before he arrived in Great Circus. Along the same lines, he tried to send a message of hope to all his followers.
Lewis Hamilton She is one of the celebrities who are raising her voice the most for the rights of people of African descent, to highlight the struggle of black culture. In this sense, British runner He explained in great detail the situation he had to go through in his childhood. In an interview with Vanity Fair, the 37-year-old driver revealed what hell he went through in elementary school.
“When I was in school, I was dyslexic and suffered like hell. I was one of the few black kids in my school in the lower grades and I didn’t get a chance to advance or even help. “You’ll never be anything,” the teachers told me. I remember being behind the shed, crying, like, “I’m going to be nothing.” And believe it for a split second‘, he remembers Lewis Hamilton.
more than words
Unfortunately, Seven times world champion He was subjected to racist abuse in his first steps in motorsport and it was not only insults, but they physically assaulted him when he was about 11 years old. A father and son hit a Mercedes driver in broad daylight in Newcastle. The attackers shouted for him to go home and kicked him to the ground. To this day, the motorist in the UK remembers the terrible situation.
‘I remember how scary it was. I really can’t understand it. It was like, ‘Are they talking to me? I’m from here. What do you mean?’ I can never understand it. When they attack you, there is this fear, and there is fear and there is also anger because you want to reward yourself for the pain they are causing you. I didn’t tell my mother about it, I didn’t think she would understand. And my father, he was probably too afraid to tell my father, Because he didn’t want him to think he was a coward. You know, I didn’t want him to think I couldn’t defend myself. I just remember a lot of times I was alone, just crying in my room.”
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