Describing education as the “leveller”, Hamilton wrote that he was using his platform to promote issues he cares deeply about, and creating The Hamilton Commission.
He described it as a “research partnership dedicated to exploring how motor sport can be used as a vehicle to engage more young people from black backgrounds with STEM subjects”.
“It will explore areas including lack of role models and career services at schools, opportunities to engage more black youth with STEM extracurriculars, barriers that prevent people from more diverse backgrounds joining the racing industry, and problematic hiring practices that result in fewer black graduates entering engineering professions,” he wrote.
“I want to see the sport that gave a shy, working-class black kid from Stevenage so much opportunity, become as diverse as the complex and multicultural world we live in,” he added.