Formula 1 Drive To Survive_S03E10_Down to the Wire

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00:00Dumb yet, with seven titles, there's more to come.

00:11This year, there's been about more than just racing.

00:18Man, I can't breathe, my face.

00:21What do you want?

00:22I can't breathe.

00:24What happened with George, you know, it brought up a lot of emotion.

00:27And all of a sudden, there's these things that have just been suppressed over my lifetime

00:32that bubbled to the surface.

00:34And I was like, I can no longer stay quiet.

00:40Every black kid in the world will, at some stage, experience racism.

00:44It's just a fact.

00:46When people call you names and the M-words thrown around,

00:51when you're told to go back to your own country when you're in your own country,

00:54there are literally millions and millions of people

00:57who will have experienced much, much worse.

01:02And that needs to change.

01:06I've had it so many times.

01:09In the past years, I've had racist names being called to me.

01:13But lately, if anybody had said anything to me, I would just ignore them.

01:18I was just eight years old.

01:21For someone to look down at a young eight-year-old

01:24and tell them they're not going to achieve anything in life,

01:26they must be in a really bad place.

01:28As Lewis began to win,

01:30the fact that he was the only black face on the track became an issue.

01:34My dad would always tell me,

01:36tread carefully, be careful what you say.

01:39We don't get involved with people who have problems

01:42about whether we win or what colour we are.

01:45You know, we go out on the track and we do our best.

01:50What's it been like for you to be the only black Formula One driver?

01:56Sometimes I wonder why, why me?

01:58Why am I the...

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