Listen to this article Hamilton was absent from last year’s end-of-season prize giving in Paris after his controversial defeat to Red Bull rival Max Verstappen in the Abu Dhabi showdown, breaching the sporting regulations. Hamilton met with FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem on Thursday in Bahrain, and said on Friday afternoon that it had been a “good meeting” discussing diversity in motorsport. The seven-time world champion said he expected a fine as a result of missing the FIA gala, but that it would go to helping “youth from underprivileged backgrounds getting into motorsport engineering”. Hamilton has been working on a number of projects to improve diversity and inclusion in motorsport, including his own charity, Ignite, and The Hamilton Commission, as well as Mercedes’ Accelerate 25 programme. Further details of Hamilton and Ben Sulayem’s meeting were revealed by the FIA on Friday evening, including that Hamilton had made a €50,000 donation that will be put towards aiding a student from an underrepresent …