Hamilton's title: Full round-up

Eurosport - Mon, 03 Nov 23:57:00 2008

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FORMULA 1 2008 Brazilian GP Lewis Hamilton (McLaren) - 0

Lewis Hamilton became the youngest man to win the Formula One drivers' World Championship in a sensational finish at Interlagos on Sunday.

The 23-year-old Englishman, needing a top-five finish to be champion, seized fifth place again for McLaren Mercedes after losing it on the final lap of a tense, dramatic and rain-hit Brazilian Grand Prix won by his title rival and local hero Felipe Massa of Ferrari.

As Massa triumphed and then celebrated, briefly, Hamilton caught and passed German Timo Glock of Toyota to turn his day from despair to joy after earlier appearing to have controlled his own race.

Check out all the reaction by pasting these links into your browser:

Interlagos gallery:

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/ph/index.html?p=interlagos&tmp=aslideshow&b=01&speed=3

Hamilton factbox:

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/02112008/58/brazilian-gp-lewis-hamilton-factbox.html

Britain's biggest sporting talents:

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/02112008/4/britain-s-best-young-sporting-talent.html

Ten great sporting finales:

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/03112008/58/ten-great-sporting-finales.html

Driver reaction from Interlagos:

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/03112008/58/drivers-said.html

Reaction from around F1:

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/03112008/58/hamilton-reaction-jordan-lucky-lewis.html

Media reaction:

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/03112008/58/italy-accept-hamilton-victory.html

Hamilton punter wins £125,000:

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/03112008/58/hamilton-punter-wins-125-000.html

2008 race by race review:

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/02112008/58/formula-title-duel-race-race.html

Final standings:

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/formula-1/driver-table/2008.html

Hamilton breaks down barriers:

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/02112008/58/hamilton-smashes-f1-barriers.html

Race report:

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/03112008/3/hamilton-pips-massa-formula-title-tense-brazil-finale.html

Full Hamilton reaction:

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/02112008/4/hamilton-feels-champion.html

Dennis quiet on future:

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/03112008/13/dennis-thinking-future-decision.html

Domenicali lauds heart-broken Massa;

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/03112008/23/domenicali-lauds-heart-broken-massa.html

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  1. nornicos....how old are u? 12? lol...brush up on ur­ grammar or english..or both. worthless ppl i tell u lol

    From stagga, on Wed 5 Nov 4:16AM
  2. have not a balls She ( meen: Lewis) is a @#$%

    From nornicos, on Wed 5 Nov 3:58AM
  3. KUBICA is the BEST HAmilton have not a @#$%

    From nornicos, on Wed 5 Nov 3:53AM
  4. in the end it was a very good season, due to the fact­ that the so called top drivers & there teams made­ several errors. well done to hamilton for the drivers­ & ferrari for the constructors. but for me the­ better drivers were driving inferior cars.

    From carol.will28, on Wed 5 Nov 2:10AM
  5. to continue the incidents in japan were racing­ incidents, that happen all the time. i mean did rosberg­ get a penalty for hitting dc in brazil?

    From carol.will28, on Wed 5 Nov 2:04AM
  6. hamilton lost 5 points at spa, wrongly in my opinion.­ massa lost 10 in hungary because his car blew. he also­ lost an almost certain 10 in singapore because his team­ messed up.so who was the unlucky one?

    From carol.will28, on Wed 5 Nov 2:02AM
  7. Kubica definitely slowed Hamilton down I've seen­ the replays but no one seems to talk about that, it was­ his fault Hamilton went down to 6th place. But never­ mind he got back to 5th and that's all that­ matters. I still don't understand why all the talk­ about Glock if he HAD changed his tyres he'd never­ have been in 4th position anyway, he'd have been­ behind Hamilton and Vettel.

    From mellieblack, on Wed 5 Nov 1:52AM
  8. I don't think that anyone could seriously believe­ that Glock would put an end to his own F1 career just­ to give Hamilton and Vettel some points. Why would he­ favour Lewis Hamilton anyway after Lewis almost ran him­ off the track earlier in the season.

    From GEORGE, on Wed 5 Nov 1:49AM
  9. what was glock thinking about, driving the last lap in­ a toyota yaris instead of the toyota f1 car. strange.

    From carol.will28, on Wed 5 Nov 1:38AM
  10. How can people accuse poor glock of gifting the win. ­ He had the wrong tyres. he was losing about 40 seconds­ a lap. It is obvious he could not help it because when­ he comes onto the main straight you can see his car­ twitching, the back was trying to step out on him. ­ McLaren new LH was gonna catch glock on their gps. So­ stop blaming him , just because your gutted about­ celebrating prematurely on Massa's false win. ­ Have some dignity and accept Lewis won fair and square

    From Leo G, on Wed 5 Nov 1:23AM
  11. Well said post 53, and Scott Redding for BBC junior­ sports personality too

    From GEORGE, on Wed 5 Nov 1:15AM
  12. Just for the record, check massas lap times at­ silverstone in the rain. They were 30-50 seconds slower­ than everyone on intermediates similar to Glock at­ interlagos. Fact! Also 6th would have done Hamilton if­ 2 rounds earlier Kimi hadnt have let Massa through to­ claim bonus points. Fact. Hamilton should have won it­ sooner and a worthy champion!

    From Chris P, on Wed 5 Nov 1:14AM
  13. Lewis Hamilton for Sports Personality of the­ year.

    Well Done Lewis & Family and McLaren &­ Ron for their Vision and support.

    From r.l.milligan, on Wed 5 Nov 1:11AM
  14. Mr Pedantic thinks the Stig is Eddie Irvine.

    From GEORGE, on Wed 5 Nov 12:53AM
  15. Mr Pedantic says no they actually failed to keep him in­ 4th place which is where he was before Vettel then­ Hamilton overtook him.

    From GEORGE, on Wed 5 Nov 12:34AM
  16. Before the race started Martin Brundle interviewed­ Bernie Eclestone for ITV and said that 28 championships­ had gone down to the very last race " How is this­ so "
    Bernie Eclestone replied " It takes a­ lot of organising "
    So it seems that all the­ points taken from Lewis Hamilton this year was just the­ FIA " organising " a classic finale to the­ championship.

    From GEORGE, on Wed 5 Nov 12:32AM
  17. Glocks tyres didn't fail they just got cold and­ stopped working. Dry tyres need to be hot to work, when­ his tyres got cold and lost grip his laptimes simply­ dropped like a stone.

    From GEORGE, on Wed 5 Nov 12:24AM
  18. Of course he will Frank!

    From Mike, on Tue 4 Nov 10:34PM
  19. I would say he thinks of no one when he is on the­ track
    but he will kill himself, then it will be a bit­ saver for all drivers.

    From frank.roles, on Tue 4 Nov 9:55PM
  20. Even if Glock did 'give' the points to Lewis to­ win it only serves as justice for the stewards giving­ 10points to Massa at Spa, not taking points away at­ Valencia or Singapore for pit lane incidents or at Fuji­ for ramming Hamilton off the road. Also, it's­ amazing that everybody things their favourite team and­ driver are squeeky clean. The are like politicians -­ all as f@@king bad as each other, accept it and move­ on. Lewis / McLaren this year were the best of a bad­ bunch.

    From scrappy003, on Tue 4 Nov 9:23PM
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