With victory on the Turkish Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton secured his seventh world title.

In doing so, he wrote his identify alongside Michael Schumacher in Method One’s report books as essentially the most profitable driver of all time, however talking afterwards it was clear that this title represented greater than that to Hamilton.

Conscious of his place in sporting historical past, Hamilton has used his platform to advocate change in the world this year. He has made his voice heard on topics from racial injustice, to range and the surroundings.

After profitable in Turkey, Hamilton took to social media to sum up his ideas.

“Main as much as immediately, and even after I crossed the road, I have been gathering my ideas about what’s most vital to me,” he wrote on his Instagram feed after the race.

“This 12 months has been so unpredictable. With the pandemic and clearly the season being pushed again by a number of months, I had essentially the most downtime I’ve ever had in my life. It gave me the possibility to actually take into consideration my final objective. Seven World Championships means the world to me, I can not even describe how a lot, however there’s nonetheless one other race we have but to win.

“This 12 months I have been pushed not simply by my want to win on the observe, however a want to assist push our sport, and our world to change into extra numerous and inclusive. I promise you I’m not going to cease combating for change. We now have a protracted method to go however I’ll proceed to push for equality inside our sport, and throughout the better world we dwell in.

“Equaling Michael Schumacher’s report places a highlight on me that I do know will not be right here endlessly. So, when you’re right here, paying consideration, I need to ask everybody to do their half in serving to to create a extra equal world. Let’s be extra accepting and kinder to one another. Let’s make it so that chance just isn’t one thing that’s depending on background or pores and skin color.

“Nothing is unattainable. A driving power for me this 12 months has been to set an instance for the subsequent technology, to by no means quit in your goals. I used to be informed by many who my dream was unattainable, but right here I’m. I need you to know that you are able to do it too. By no means quit, hold combating, and let’s hold rising to the event.”

Hamilton has already began to again up his phrases with actions. Earlier this 12 months, he arrange a fee of consultants to assist perceive why Black individuals are underrepresented in British motorsport and, in the end, provide you with methods to alter that truth.

Forward of the season he took half in peaceable protests over racial injustice in London and persuaded Mercedes to color its automobiles black as a substitute of the model’s conventional silver.

All through the season he has taken a knee forward of each F1 race sporting a shirt saying ‘Black Lives Matter’ or, within the case of September’s Tuscan Grand Prix, a shirt saying ‘Arrest the Cops Who Killed Breonna Taylor’.

And as Hamilton has made his stand, the game has adopted with its personal statements and commitments. Each F1 and his Mercedes group have taken a stronger stance on enhancing range and dedicated to themselves to result in actual change.

They could have performed the identical with out Hamilton, however he has performed greater than some other particular person in F1 to maintain the message alive. And now Hamilton hopes his seventh world title, which in different circumstances could have solely impressed those that comply with the game, could be its personal message for change in individuals’s lives.

“It is clearly no secret that I’ve actually walked this sport alone as the one Black particular person right here,” he stated on Sunday. “It is a actually attention-grabbing level, the actual fact is I am bi-racial. I am bi-racial and I feel this color is not [what] individuals ought to examine.

“However I feel that hopefully reveals after I was youthful, I did not have anyone within the sport that regarded like me. So it was simple to suppose that it isn’t doable to be there, as a result of no person of your color has been there, you do not see any Black individuals on TV which can be in F1.

“I feel hopefully this sends a message to the children which can be watching, hopefully they see the efficiency immediately and hopefully they’ll see that it does not matter the place you come from. No matter your background, it is simply so vital to dream huge.

“In case you are taking a look at locations and industries and you do not see somebody of the identical background or ethnicity as you or the identical faith, create your individual path. That is what we did, that is what I have been capable of do and it has been so robust.

“Robust does not even describe how exhausting it has been. However I hope that that sends the message, that is crucial message for youths — to dream as huge as doable and never quit.”