The Aston Martin Formula One team shared on Friday that they have “a zero-tolerance policy on discriminatory behaviour of any kind” in wake of former employee Aidan Louw detailing racist and anti-LGBTQ+ abuse by colleagues working at the team in an interview with Sky Sports News.
The 25-year-old worked as a laminator, specifically building parts of cars driven by four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel. In February, Louw joined the F1 team as a supplier’s agency contractor. And he said the abuse started almost immediately.
“Before I even walked into my working environment, that’s when I was told, ‘Look if you’ve got a problem with how we speak here, it’s just how we speak,’” Louw told Sky Sports News.
