Charlie Thomas

“From my experience, the sport wasn’t necessarily open to the rest of the world”, says Lewis Hamilton when I catch up with him at the Dutch Grand Prix. We’re sat in Team Principal Toto Wolff’s office in the Mercedes motorhome (where all the good Drive to Survive stuff happens). It’s a smaller room than I’d imagined. There’s a mini globe on the desk, as well as a die-cast model of an old Mercedes race car, the only hint that we’re anywhere near the business of automobiles. Hamilton is wearing hal…