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This year’s Brazilian Grand Prix had race lovers on the edges of their seats until the very end, and the final race of the 2008 Formula One series seemed for a time to be Felipe Massa’s. However, an eleventh hour effort by Lewis Hamilton led in his becoming the world’s first black Formula One champion.
Lewis Hamilton lovers were elated when he secured first place at the China Grand Prix in Shanghai. He had been prefigured by many Formula One watchers as the favourite. Hamilton needed that win to be in the running for World Champion heading into the Brazilian Grand Prix.
His two year career with Formula One has been fraught with high hopes and subsequent disappointments. His tie-up with the sport and team McLaren actually began long before his induction to Formula One. Lewis Hamilton started as among the first drivers to receive instruction in the Young Driver Support Programme. The school was started in 1998 as a sharing deed between McLaren and Mercedes-Benz. Hamilton was just 13 at the time.
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