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  • Updated: April 30, 2021

F1: Hamilton Intends To Keep Racing Beyond 2021

F1: Hamilton Intends To Keep Racing Beyond 2021

Lewis Hamilton - CNN.com

Lewis Hamilton indicated that he planned to remain in Formula 1 for at least another season after 2021.

The seven-time champion signed a one-year deal with Mercedes at the start of 2021 but said on Thursday that he "plans" to be in the sport for at least another next season.

Hamilton said he was "enjoying" his title fight with Red Bull's Max Verstappen and was determined to continue to fight against racism and for diversity.

He added: "I don't know how long I can stay, though. We will see."

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His revelation about his wish to continue in F1 came in answer to a question about his participation in a tyre development test last week.

"I plan to be here next year and I want to help Pirelli in helping them towards having a better product," he said.

"The drivers have wished for a more [high] performance tyre. So it was important to see where the starting point is and what differences I can help so we have more mechanical grip, less degradation."

Asked to expand on his plans for the future, the 36-year-old said: "I am pretty spontaneous so it could always change. I am enjoying this battle we are having. It is getting more exciting. It has been even more of a challenge.

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"I continue to love working with this team, and it is encouraging to see the steps my team are making to becoming more inclusive and more diverse.

"They have announced one of the initiatives we have within our organisation and we still have a lot of work to do as a sport.

"There are still many teams that continue to stay silent and many people who are not particularly being held accountable and there is still a lot of work to do within this sport and I know that being here I have more of a chance of helping to change that than not."

Before the Portuguese Grand Prix, Mercedes have announced a partnership with the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers in the UK to support people from a minority ethnic background develop careers in engineering.

The team earlier this year set up a joint foundation with Hamilton to promote diversity, while a commission the driver set up last year to look into the lack of ethnic involvement in maths and science subjects will report in the summer.

Hamilton added that he was likely to take part in the boycott of social media platforms many sports are operating this weekend as a means of putting pressure on the companies who run the websites to do more to combat racism and abuse on their platforms.

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