The Moral Heart
Hamilton wins his 7th title Today, February 8th 2021, the news broke that Sir Lewis Hamilton has signed a one year deal to continue racing in Formula One with the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team. This follows on from the 2020 season, where Hamilton equaled the great Michael Schumacher's 7x world championship titles and became the most successful F1 driver ever, with the most race wins of any driver attributed to his name. The 2020 season took place amidst a global pandemic, and because of this, Formula One ran the slogan: We Race As One, designed to take a performative stance of solidarity with the masses struggling through the multiple national lockdowns. A massive wave of anti-racist sentiment also gripped the world in 2020, following the brutal killing of George Floyd, and Black Lives Matter protests were seen across the world. The We Race As One slogan was quickly co-opted to stand as a message of equality with not just the BLM movement, but as a blanket statement calling for eq...