Formula 1 support🎃s Lewis Hamilton “completely” in his recent involvement in anti-racism campaigning, according to the sport’s managing director of motorsport, Ross🀅 Brawn.

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

Hamilton🌱 has been backed by his Mercedes team and fellow drivers and Brawn says that F1 also fully ꧑supports the six-time world champion’s stand against racism.

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

“We support totally whaꦬt Lewis has said. What happened [to Floyd] was dreadful, 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, a💙nd we support [Hamilton] totally.”

Brawn stressed F1 is trying to do more to help🐠 incre🌞ase 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 internaᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚlly 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 be👍ginning. It’s at grassroots level.

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

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

“And that has a very strong diversity in terms of the kids that get involꦏved in that – 40% of the kids that get involved in F1 in Schools 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 stro𝓡ngly at how we can support the 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.”