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  • RoC: Hamilton to appear – but not compete

    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.

    Archive, Events, F1
    BBC Sports Personality of the Year, David Coulthard, Fredrik Johnsson, Lewis Hamilton, Race of Champions, Wembley Stadium

  • Over the white line: Lewis’ biggest challenge yet

    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.

    Archive, Uncategorized
    James Allen, Lewis Hamilton, Martin Brundle, Pedro de la Rosa, Toyota

  • RoC: Could DC possibly get a turbo-charged Hamilton boost?

    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.

    Archive, Events, F1
    David Coulthard, Fredrik Johnsson, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton, Race of Champions, Wembley Stadium

  • F1: Thanks to ITV for keeping us entertained

    We’ve all moaned and complained, cursed the ad breaks and laughed uproariously at the unintended bloopers. But the Brits on Pole team has thoroughly enjoyed the last 12 years of Formula One coverage from ITV – and we’d like to say thank you.

    Archive, F1
    David Coulthard, ITV F1, James Allen, Jenson Button, Louise Goodman, Mark Blundell, Martin Brundle, Sebastian Vettel, Steve Rider, Ted Kravitz, videos

  • F1: Hamilton grabs championship at the last gasp

    Lewis Hamilton broke the hearts of 80,000 Brazilians at Interlagos by sneaking the Formula One world championship in the last few yards of the season’s final lap while Ferrari were already celebrating for Felipe Massa.

    Archive, F1
    Brazilian Grand Prix, Felipe Massa, Formula One, Lewis Hamilton

  • F1: Brazilian Grand Prix in six words

    Well, that was squeaky-bum time for every Lewis Hamilton and McLaren fan in the country. But, now our powers of communication are restored, here are our six-word summaries of what happened for race, drivers and teams.

    Archive, F1
    Brazilian Grand Prix, Formula One, six words

  • F1: Brazilian Grand Prix live blog

    It’s now almost eight months since Lewis Hamilton cruised to unruffled victory and Felipe Massa ended up by the side of the road in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix – now the pair face off in Brazil to decide the championship.

    Archive, F1
    Brazilian Grand Prix, Formula One

  • F1: Massa pole piles pressure on Hamilton

    Fans cheering on Lewis Hamilton’s title challenge face a nervous start to the Brazilian Grand Prix as the British driver was only able to qualify fourth, behind title rival Felipe Massa who took a dominant pole position.

    Archive, F1
    Brazilian Grand Prix, David Coulthard, Felipe Massa, Formula One, Jarno Trulli, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton

  • F1 in 2008: sign up for a free Brits on Pole e-book

    If you’ve enjoyed the live blogs, the race reports and the ‘six word’ summaries we’ve produced for each race, we’re collecting them all together in a downloadable e-book that will be available as soon as we’ve incorporated our Brazilian Grand Prix coverage into the work so far.

    Archive, F1, Site news
    e-book, F1 season 2008

  • F1: Hamilton subdued in Brazil practice

    Felipe Massa got his bid to secure the 2008 drivers’ and constructors’ world championships off to a strong start today after topping the unofficial timesheets in one practice session and coming second in the other.

    Archive, F1
    Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace, Brazilian Grand Prix, David Coulthard, F1 practice, Felipe Massa, Fernando Alonso, Ferrari, Formula One, Honda, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton, McLaren, Red Bull Racing, Renault F1

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