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Lewis Hamilton has confirmed his appearance at December’s Race of Champions event at Wembley - but rather than take on the likes of Michael Schumacher, Sebastien Loeb and Matthias Ekstrom he’ll be going head to head with a man on a bike.

To long-time F1 fan Sean Mills, making figures to add extra detail to his model cars was the start of something special - making collectable figurines, with Lewis Hamilton his latest project. Brits on Pole caught up with him by email.

Now the F1 season’s come to a close we’ve decided to experiment with a new weekly feature that rounds up a lot of the lesser-spotted stories from the week’s news and sport coverage.

Bernie Ecclestone has told British F1 fans that not even a home champion will be enough to save their grand prix in 2010 should Donington Park fail to meet its obligation to stage the event.

The story about Lewis Hamilton featuring at this year’s Race of Champions just refuses to go away - despite receiving absolutely no public encouragement whatsoever from the driver or his team.

Lewis Hamilton, 2008 F1 world champion, has said he doesn’t find racist abuse aimed at him funny in the least - but he has thanked his UK fans for supporting him through such negativity.

Lewis Hamilton was greeted by 1000 cheering McLaren staff at the team’s high-tech HQ building when he made his triumphant homecoming after winning the F1 drivers’ championship.

One of our readers was desperate to record the Brazilian Grand Prix - but fell victim to acute DVD malfunction. Can anyone out there help?

Good news for everyone who’s watched the now-famous Abbey advert with the Lewis Hamilton Airfix kit and wondered whether they’d ever get the chance to buy one.

Felipe Massa won the Brazilian Grand Prix and Lewis Hamilton the drivers’ championship on a day full of sporting drama - but a day, also, where the bigots, the gloaters and the conspiracy theorists were out in force.