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halogenrep November 5, 2008 3:59 AM

ferenc, we're the human race.  What are you? Martian?

David Targett November 5, 2008 8:55 AM

Seems like the Americans are too. Ferenc, could it be that you are the minority? Or just a racist arse.

kerrecoe November 5, 2008 9:27 AM

The autocar web-site is doing a service to society by keeping 'people' like ferenc off the streets and barking at fire engines or whatever else he would be doing. Let him have his twisted little rant- at least he's not mugging old ladies. Ignore it.

Vicky Parrott November 5, 2008 10:13 AM

Ferenc has been permanently banned from the site and the post on this blog has also been deleted.

Hope you're all enjoying the site, and having a new British F1 champion.

freerunner November 5, 2008 9:01 PM

THE CORRECT NUMBER OF CHAMPIONSHIPS HE HAS "TO WIN IS 2 OUT OF THE NEXT 3" AND THAT WAS LAST YEAR. I KNOW BECAUSE I READ LEWIS HAMILTON'S  AUTOBIOGRAPHY LAST YEAR. SO, AND YOU CAN QUOTE ME ON THIS, HE JUST HAS TO WIN THE NEXT CHAMPIONSHIP TO GET HIS HANDS ON THAT MCLAREN F1 LM

(NOT THE GTR AS YOU ,AGAIN, WRONGLY WROTE BECAUSE THE GTR IS THE TRACK VERSION THAT ONE LE MANS  AND THE LM IS THE ROAD VERSION OF THE GTR)

SO OTHER THAN THAT, GREAT STORY. BUT NEXT TIME CHECK YOU HAVE IT RIGHT FIRST.

david RS November 5, 2008 9:34 PM

Bravo Lewis Hamilton for this first title!

He's the phenomenon of the circus since last year.

He was the legitimate champion since the japenese Grand Prix, if we count his magnificent victory in Spa.  

Even if this "arranged" championship allowed to maintain the suspense until the end.

blazing walker November 6, 2008 1:16 PM

I know that there is a hugely subjective element to Alan Henry's comment that Sunday's F1 climax was one of the greatest sporting spectacles of all time, but I agree wholeheartedly. For me, at 40 years of age, it topped everything: the 1999 European Champion League final, the Borg/McEnroe tie breaker, the 1979 FA Cup final and other great sporting events have been overtaken.

the limit November 10, 2008 4:56 AM

The achievements of Lewis Hamilton have been amazing these last two seasons, and the result in Brazil proves that, however, I do believe that the next season will be the real acid test.

To prove my case, you only have to look at the fortunes of Kimi Raikkonen this season. After six years of trying, and two close efforts, Raikkonen becomes the champion, and everybody expected him to defend that crown in 2008.

And yet, he didn't, not even close!

To add to Raikkonen's discomfort, Ferrari's title hopes lay not at his door, but at that of his team mate, Felipe Massa.

One world championship is nothing to sneeze at in your first year at the Scuderia, but was the mantle of the sports highest earner, at a reported $50 million a year, plus defending his title, getting to the Finnish driver?

It is easy when you are the underdog, the challenger.

Everybody looks, in hope, of the champion screwing up, and when he does, the media murders him.

This is what Lewis Hamilton will have to deal with. People now expect nothing less than perfection, and this just is not possible.

Next year Formula One will have radically different looking cars, slick tyres, no aero, and a totally different points system that if in place this year, would have made Felipe Massa champion.

Then there are Hamilton's rivals. Ferrari we know about, but Renault maywell prove dark horses. The progress they made as a team in the latter half of 2008 was incredible, compared to their disastrous form at the beginning. Marry an increase in performance to the stability of knowing that Fernando Alonso has committed himself to the Enstone team for another two years, and you have a very dangerous package.

I can imagine no other man on earth more motivated to swiping the smiles off McLaren faces than Fernando Alonso, and a year in the wilderness would have only made him more determined.

So to think that Hamilton will have an easier 2009 than he did 2008 may be extremely premature. And from a fans perspective, all the more better.