"to Win the title this year would have more sense" than its six previous coronations, due to the context of a pandemic and the fight against racism, said Lewis Hamilton said Thursday, before the resumption of the Formula 1.

"It's been a year so monumental in the sense that you have this pandemic that is still very present and that we are fighting, and also, on a more personal level, the movement Black Lives Matter and the struggle for justice and equality," said the Briton, the first driver of black history class-queen of the motor sport.