Hamilton to help Government

Eurosport - Thu, 04 Dec 13:05:00 2008

Lewis Hamilton is set to visit 10 Downing Street to help Prime Minister Gordon Brown with a road accident campaign.

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After winning the Formula One world championship, Hamilton said he wanted to "put something back" into Britain and Brown is planning to take up the offer.

The Prime Minster reportedly wants the McLaren driver to lead a road accident campaign aimed at teenage drivers, as well as helping to promote sport to the young.

Despite recent criticism for becoming a tax exile in Switzerland, Hamilton hasn also been named on a Government list of 20 Afro-Caribbean men who can serve as role models for black teenagers.

Communities Secretary Hazel Blears said at the launch of the list: "The election of Barack Obama and Lewis Hamilton's recent success is a powerful signal to young people that they can achieve.

"But for many they will still be the men on the telly, removed from their day-to-day lives, whose achievements exist in a world beyond theirs.

"The role modelling programme was about finding a way of making a more relevant connection; nurturing ambitious, realistic aspirations by showing young black men that they can achieve in any and every walk of life they can imagine.

"That is why I am delighted by the calibre and diversity of the role models that have put themselves forward. Each of these men has faced challenges and barriers, but through skill, determination and hard work they have succeeded.

"Now they have a chance to tell their stories and show that success and recognition are there for the taking - if only young people reach for them."

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  1. I'm gonna go and watch the footie. It's only­ Aston Villa but I am a Millwall supporter so what do I­ know (or no for mouron) about football?

    From BigBill, on Thu 4 Dec 8:05PM

  2. My god mouron's on about lord hesketh and daimler­ group.
    Little companies pay less tax - he's on­ drugs.
    He travelled to brixworth by boat and the only­ water nearby is a reservoir.

    From BigBill, on Thu 4 Dec 7:59PM

  3. Scottish C: He'll deny it tomorrow.
    mga: went to­ pitstop and it does look like a genuine rumour.

    From BigBill, on Thu 4 Dec 7:56PM

  4. What about an explanation for copying and pasting the­ Ilmor info but then changing "Independent of­ Mercedes" to "working with Mercedes" to­ fit your argument?

    And what about this Glock­ investigation?

    I demand answers god damn it!

    From Scottish C, on Thu 4 Dec 7:39PM

  5. hjlio oi all i am suggesting is you are a tit cant u­ write something different.

    From Major Bumsore, on Thu 4 Dec 7:25PM

  6. Is this Honda thing just malicious gossip or a genuine­ rumour?

    From BigBill, on Thu 4 Dec 7:16PM

  7. GINGER-GITT /you are quite right, but the whole lot is­ owned by the daimler group, little company's pay­ less tax,i actually travelled to brixworth to the ilmor­ side of things, with a boat which belonged to lord­ hesketh .

    From touronroute, on Thu 4 Dec 7:15PM

  8. MGRV, I asked him whether he was in the village or the­ circuit after he had said he was in Silverstone.

    From Grey Scale, on Thu 4 Dec 6:51PM

  9. mouronroute: You nearly got it right, with the­ exception of the whole Ilmor Engineering part of it. ­ The original company was simply called Ilmor and not­ Ilmor Engineering. It was Ilmor that Mercedes­ purchased. Ilmor Engineering did not come about until­ 2005, when (following Morgan's death) Illien­ repurchased the Special Projects branch of the now­ Mercedes owned company and renamed it Ilmor­ Engineering. Run completely independently of Mercedes,­ Ilmor Engineering is owned by Illien and Penske and­ primarily works with Honda in America but did in 2007­ have an input in MotoGP.

    From ginger_gitt, on Thu 4 Dec 6:22PM

  10. Voodoopenguin. in the village mate.

    From touronroute, on Thu 4 Dec 6:21PM

  11. The car is his name or is it the name is his car? In­ the summer he is MGA.

    From Grey Scale, on Thu 4 Dec 6:14PM

  12. touronroute - are you in the village or at the circuit?

    From Grey Scale, on Thu 4 Dec 6:04PM

  13. MGA, I,M IN SILVERSTONE AND ITS PISSING DOWN.

    From touronroute, on Thu 4 Dec 5:38PM

  14. BILL MAC, i was just told, one big firm, could become­ two, or three or four, or maybe more,or ilmor, and­ never put your eggs in one basket.

    From touronroute, on Thu 4 Dec 5:37PM

  15. hjlio oi hate to agree these guys but you are a tit.

    From Major Bumsore, on Thu 4 Dec 5:36PM

  16. (182)
    ...Would I have a case? So if anybody out there,­ with legal knowledge, what do you think?

    From paul t,­ on Thu 4 Dec 4:22PM

    .
    you have to grow up!

    From , on Thu 4 Dec 5:23PM

  17. sorry for split posts and full stops, invalids are­ killing me...

    From Scottish C, on Thu 4 Dec 5:14PM

  18. Even I know the roundabout. I helped a relative do up­ their house in Old and the council dump, sorry­ Recycling Centre, is near that junction. Hadn't­ realised until I looked on Google Earth as I just­ followed the directions my nephew gave me. So we all­ seem to know of this roundabout and some have even been­ round it but one person, who appears to have gone a bit­ quiet, doesn't believe it.

    From Grey Scale, on Thu 4 Dec 5:13PM

  19. and in a scooby doo style, if it hadn't been for­ you pesky kids, he'd have gotten away with it.

    From Scottish C, on Thu 4 Dec 5:13PM

  20. I kn.ow it's obv.ious now he thi.nks ab.out it, but­ at the ti.me it se.emed so plau.sible

    From Scottish C, on Thu 4 Dec 5:13PM
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