The Mercedes Formula One team has ended its sponsorship deal with a firm that made combustible insulation used on Grenfell Tower after outrage from bereaved friends and relatives, the survivors and the UK government.

The team, whose main driver is the current champion Lewis Hamilton, terminated its shortlived partnership with Kingspan after just one grand prix in which the logo of the firm that made some of the foam boards used on the tower was emblazoned on the nose cone of cars driven by Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas.

When the deal was announced before last week’s grand prix in Saudi Arabia, survivors called on the team’s boss, Toto Wolff, to sever the relationship, describing it as “sportswashing sins”. It was called “disgusting” by Nabil

Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes team ends deal with Grenfell firm

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