Formula 1 supports Lewis Hamilton “completely” in his recent involvement in anti-racism camp💜aigning, according to the sport’s managing director of motorsport, Ross Brawn.

In the wake of the murder of Georg꧙e Floyd by a white police officer in the United States, Hamilton ha♈s posted a number of strong anti-racism messages on his social media channels expressing his outrage at racial injustice and discrimination.

H🧸amilton has been backed by his Mercedes team and fellow drivers and Brawn says that F1 also fully supports the six-time world champion’s stand against racism.

“I think Lewis is a great ambassador for the sport, and ꦉI think his comments are very valid and we support him completely,” Brawn said on Sky Sports F1.

“We🔴 support totally what Lewis has said. What happened [to Floyd] was dꦬreadful, it happens far too often.

“And you’ve seen the public reaction to it, it’s almost the straw that broke the camel’s back, and we support [ไHamilton] totally.”

Brawn stressed F1 is trying to do more 🐬to help increase diversity in the🍷 sport and revealed a plan of action to address the problem, starting at a grassroots level.

“We as F1 have recognised for a few years▨ now that we want to strengthen our diversity, and our diversity programme, and both internally as a company, and externally, we started work on this a few years ago,” he said.

“Our thoughts were that the reason why we don’t have more ꧅diversity in Formula 1 starts at the very beginning. It’s a🍸t grassroots level.

“And it even starts in the schools with the appeal for STEM topics – science technology engineering♏ maths. And how can we get involved in that.

“So we’ve been involved in F1 in Schools now. We’ve 🌄always supported it but we became far more involved in the last year or two.

“And thಌat has a very strong diversity in terms of the kids that get involved in that – 40% of the kids that get involved in F1 in Sch𒁏ools are girls. So that’s a good start. And it’s an international competition, so we get competitors from all groups.

“We’re looking very strong✤ly at how we can support 𝔉the grassroots racing level. I spent the last weeks and months working with a group to look at how we can have a really, really basic karting initiative to get kids involved in karting at a very early stage.”