[karajorma]

And my point is, why didn't they just say "Who the hell are you? Get out!"

[Colonol Dekker]

He's a bit of a prodigy in the way Colin Macrae was.... i suppose they saw something in his track record (no pun) that they liked.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Well, considering that it takes A_WHILE to even work for an F1 team...

[Colonol Dekker]

It takes A_WHILE to earn global recognition too.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Yeah well, it happens. If everyone was famous, fame would be like your name.

[Colonol Dekker]

Ahh well, maybe schumacher next time

[Wobble73]

Lewis Hamilton has been sponsored by Mclaren throughout his career, since he was about 10-13 yrs old. Ron Dennis has always known the lad had talent. In other words, he didn't approach Mclaren, they approached him.

[Flipside]

It's certainly the year for people who look like Obama...

[Androgeos Exeunt]

It's certainly the year for people who look like Obama...

That's a very straight way of putting it, but yeah.

Notice that the last F1 race for this season came very close to the end of the 2008 USA Presidential Elections. I read that Hamilton won, so I went, "Now, if only Obama wins..."

[Flipside]

The thing about Lewis Hamilton is that he does look like Obama Maybe 10 years younger, but the face structure is almost identical, only difference is that Lewis, oddly enough, has less hair, could be something to do with the speeds he usually travels at

[Colonol Dekker]

Hitman style cloning project to slowly take over the world mayhaps?

[Flipside]

The Obamageddon

[Colonol Dekker]

The Obamageddon

  You should copyright that quickly........

[Androgeos Exeunt]

My sister was telling me how much her junior college form teacher resembled Obama...

[Mongoose]

Took me until reading Sports Illustrated this morning to figure out who the hell you were talking about in here.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Wow, where have you been, Mongoose?

[Mongoose]

Right here.  I can count on no hands the number of F1 races I've seen, and my desire to seek one out is equally negligible.

[Mobius]

Lewis Hamilton has been sponsored by Mclaren throughout his career, since he was about 10-13 yrs old. Ron Dennis has always known the lad had talent. In other words, he didn't approach Mclaren, they approached him.

Exactly. Hamilton is a McLaren pilot simply because he's British, like the McLaren team...I would have ended up in another team with poor chances of winning the Championship.

Both Lewis Hamilton and Timo Glock won the GP2 Championship right before entering the world of Formula 1, with one difference: Hamilton began his F1 career with the 2nd top team while Glock began with a poor team, the Toyota.

Also, note how great champions like Sebastien Bourdais(who won several Championships in the USA) perform badly in Formula 1 due to their cars.

[captain-custard]

Lewis Hamilton has been sponsored by Mclaren throughout his career, since he was about 10-13 yrs old. Ron Dennis has always known the lad had talent. In other words, he didn't approach Mclaren, they approached him.

Exactly. Hamilton is a McLaren pilot simply because he's British, like the McLaren team...I would have ended up in another team with poor chances of winning the Championship.

Both Lewis Hamilton and Timo Glock won the GP2 Championship right before entering the world of Formula 1, with one difference: Hamilton began his F1 career with the 2nd top team while Glock began with a poor team, the Toyota.

Also, note how great champions like Sebastien Bourdais(who won several Championships in the USA) perform badly in Formula 1 due to their cars.

his car was ok (Sebastien Bourdais) it was the engine that lety him down (ferrari)........


just joking


maybe lewis hamilton was chosen because he was british , but i thinhk you should try and find the interview given by mclaren a few years ago , they have been watching lewis for ten years  or more like many european football teams do .
He is there because he has talent and he won because he has talent and luck , and luck in f1 is very important  . f1 is about insane amounts of money and pride , we have seen teams go from the heights to the ****es and back again , williams , ferrari , team redbull ( that was minardi.... )

so lets just say massa lost because he was unlucky but he lost so live with it !

[Mobius]

No doubt Lewis Hamilton has talent, he's surely among the best pilots in circulation, but I don't understand why people tend to exaggerate with him. Be coherent, please...Raikkonen was a meh Champion in 2007, I don't see why Hamilton shouldn't now.

Hamilton was lucky because, although talented as many others, he began his F1 career in a top notch team because Ron Dennis wanted to. All other pilots are "self made man", I'd like to mention Michael Schumacher...he won with a crappy car. That's incredible.

I'm waiting for the next Championship - I expect the Ferrari to win 3-4 races before the end()...oh, and I'd also like Fernando Alonso to take Kimi Raikkonen's place.