Lewis Hamilton is the man
June 21st, 2007 by calinescuvmLewis Hamilton is the hot subject of this period:
- Coulthard said Lewis will lose his nice-guy, polite image :”In three years from now, he’ll be less approachable, more distant and with his own private jet.”
- Schumacher may race against him on December
- the jockey Frankie Dettori started this year as a favourite of the BBC Sports Personality Award, but now Hamilton seems to be replacing him.
- Former champion Emerson Fittipaldi says fellow-Brazilian Nelson Piquet could be the “next Hamilton”
- at Silverstone yesterday, where huge crowds assembled in the hope of seeing Britain’s hero of the summer, pounding around the circuit during the three-day test. The groan when Pedro De La Rosa was disclosed as the McLaren driver echoed like thunder through the stands.
- David Robertson, who broke the mould by bringing the untested talents of Jenson Button and Kimi Raikkonen into Formula One, believes Hamilton could be the sport’s first $100 million driver, annually that is.
June 21st, 2007 at 6:00 pm
What I like about Hamilton is that he doesn’t seem to care about the money all that much - he just wants to win.
In that respect he’s much like Alonso. He went to McLaren because in 2005 he feared Renault lacked long-term commitment to the sport. He’s the sport’s youngest ever double champion - and yet he earns less money than Raikkonen or Schumacher.