Lewis Hamilton has insisted that he will not force his fellow F1 drivers to take a knee after six drivers declined to take a stance ahead of the Austrian Grand Prix on Sunday.
Other than Hamilton, the drivers wore "End Racism" t-shirts and congregated at the front of the grid, while the Brit sported a 'Black Lives Matter' top.
Hamilton, the first and only black F1 driver, then took a knee, which all but Charles Leclerc, Max Verstappen, Kimi Raikkonen, Carlos Sainz, Daniil Kvyat and Antonio Giovinazzi joined him in doing.
But Hamilton has praised the class of 2020 for backing the anti-racism campaign and explained how he won't lecture or force them to do anything they don't feel comfortable doing. "Nobody should be forced into a scenario
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