Motor racing-Imafidon puts Hamilton's diversity push into practice

FILE PHOTO: George Imafidon, a performance engineer with Lewis Hamilton's X44 Extreme E team and youngest board member of the seven times Formula One champion's diversity commission, at work with the off-road all-electric SUV racing series earlier this year in Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia April 3, 2021. Motorsport Images / Sam Bloxham/Handout via REUTERS

LONDON (Reuters) - George Imafidon has gone from a boyhood passion for fixing bicycles in his mum's back garden to working with Lewis Hamilton and Sebastien Loeb, two of motorsport's greatest world champions.

His journey has taken him from Peckham, one of South London's most racially diverse areas, to the Saudi Arabian deserts, the Atlantic shores of Senegal and glaciers of Greenland.