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  • F1: Hamilton picks up ‘coveted’ German award

    Consolation prizes are coming thick and fast to season runner-up Lewis Hamilton, who has been presented with a prestigious Golden Steering Wheel award by a German newspaper.

    Archive, F1

  • F1: Hamilton on the price of fame

    For those of you that are getting a bit sick of hearing about Lewis Hamilton – well, don’t make the mistake of thinking this young man has it easy.

    Archive, F1

  • F1: Clarkson asks Hamilton: ‘why Switzerland?’

    Lewis Hamilton was a surprise guest at this year’s National TV Awards, where he appeared to hand over a special award to Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson.

    Archive, F1

  • F1: Mosley’s extraordinary attacks on Hamilton and McLaren

    Max Mosley has claimed that the continuing success of Lewis Hamilton next season could have a “negative impact” on F1 by reproducing the “Schumacher effect”. He has also threatened to ban McLaren from racing, or to start their season on a “negative points allocation” to compensate for any benefit the team may have gained from…

    Archive, F1

  • F1: Hamilton announces move to Switzerland

    It looks like the Boy Wonder may have forseen his first tax bill…

    Archive, F1
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  • F1: Ecclestone says ‘silly strategy’ cost Hamilton the title

    Bernie Ecclestone, never one to mince his words, has made his pronouncement about Lewis Hamilton’s botched race at Interlagos – he thinks it was McLaren’s “silly” pitstop strategy that did the damage

    Archive, F1
    Bernie Ecclestone, Brazilian Grand Prix, Formula One, Lewis Hamilton, Mark Hughes, McLaren, Ron Dennis

  • F1: Hamilton distances himself from “cruel” appeal

    Britain’s Lewis Hamilton wants to win the world championship on the race track, not in the appeal court, and says it would be “a bit cruel” if Raikkonen lost the title because of McLaren’s protest.

    Archive, F1
    BMW Sauber, F1 drivers’ championship, Ferrari, Formula One, Kimi Raikkonen, Lewis Hamilton, McLaren, Nick Heidfeld, Nico Rosberg, Robert Kubica, Williams F1

  • F1 season finale: Could ‘dodgy fuel’ hand title to Hamilton? And should it?

    Just when you thought this crazy season was over, it just got stranger.

    Archive, F1
    BMW Sauber, F1 drivers’ championship, Ferrari, Formula One, Kimi Raikkonen, Lewis Hamilton, McLaren, Nick Heidfeld, Nico Rosberg, Robert Kubica, Williams F1

  • F1 season finale: ‘Cheer up, nobody died’ says Hamilton Sr

    “None of us are in pain, we feel great,” insisted Lewis Hamilton’s father Anthony at the end of a race that had seen his son lose the world championship but break every record in the book for a rookie.

    Archive, F1
    Anthony Hamilton, F1 drivers’ championship, Formula One, Lewis Hamilton, McLaren, Norbert Haug, Ron Dennis

  • F1 season finale: How Hamilton’s hopes drained slowly away

    It was, in the end, a day when everything went right for Kimi and wrong for Lewis, and nobody really bothered with the other bloke stuck in the middle.

    Archive, F1
    Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace, Brazilian Grand Prix, F1 drivers’ championship, Felipe Massa, Ferrari, Formula One, Kimi Raikkonen, Lewis Hamilton, McLaren

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