Friday, March 29, 2024

TAYO Fatunla: Lewis Hamilton – A British Formula One Legend in the Making

Lewis Hamilton Illustration used on back page of UK's Voice newspaper

*“I feel like people are expecting me to fail, therefore I expect myself to win” …the words of Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton, British racing driver and a six-time Formula one World Champion (2008,2014,2015,2017,2018,2019).

Hamilton, racing for Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport is the first black Formula one race driver who has left his rivals in the shade through the years. He would settle for nothing less but often aiming to win. He has been a dominant race driver from his first Grand Prix win in Australia in 2007 up to his last win and last race of 2019 in Abu Dhabi as yet again World Champion.

I am often asked if I have a drawing of a black hero or heroine, I may have drawn from my Black history series OUR ROOTS, so, I was honoured to be asked by the Voice, UK’s black main newspaper to the use my Lewis Hamilton illustration on the back page of the newspaper for its December 2019 edition.

An Oprah Winfrey quote says…” Excellence is the best deterrent to racism ….” Lewis has had his share of racism and has answered that and his critics has been on the F1 race circuits by becoming the second most successful Formula one racing driver.

TAYO - Photo (12-01-17a)
TAYO Fatunla

TAYO Fatunla is an award-winning Nigerian Comic Artist, Editorial Cartoonist, Writer and Illustrator. He is a graduate of the prestigious Kubert School, in New Jersey, US. and recipient of the 2018 ECBACC Pioneer Lifetime Achievement Award for his illustrated OUR ROOTS creation and series – Famous people in Black History – He participated in the UNESCO’s Cartooning In Africa forum held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and the Cartooning Global Forum in Paris, France.

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