yes yes yes yes, LH will be the Poulidor of F1... he alredy has his first and fantastic subchampionship, after loosing 17 points lead... marvelous, how sweet...

oscar, alicante, spain

Oh no, this is disasterous!!!

I was hoping LH would have a great season.... the last thing he needs is an endorsement from Max Moseley, it is the kiss of death!

Could Max please endorse Alonso and Raikonen instead!

Graeme, Huntingdon, UK

I hope LH,as Mosley says, the same achievement he did last year.
I wouldn´t mind him being six more years the youngest loser in F1.

josean, bilbao, spain

Tim of London. if you are a World Champion I bet you'll want preferential status to a rookie.
Can you imagine Pavarotti, Carreras or Miriam Gauci two of the world's leading tenors and a prime soprano, not expecting preferential treatment to a member of the chorus?

Reno, Valletta, Malta

of course lewis is arrogant, he has to be, all F1 drivers are to some extent, jenson button thinks he is the best driver on the grid, he results don't agree but he truly believes it and in his own words he has to, otherwise he shouldn't be in F1, alonso is definately arrogant, why else would he want preferential treatment? i think we all just have to wait and see what happens this season, it will certainly resolve all the disputes on these pages, will put a bet on lewis though, safe money me thinks!!

tim, london, england

So why all this hype about Lewis.
He is just a fast driver who was lucky enough to get the drive of his life in one of the fastest cars of 2007, fully set up by the two times World Champion Fernando Alonso.
McLaren in 2007 invested in the World Champion but failed to cash in on their investment, preferring to concentrate their efforts on an unknown and untried rookie to create a sensation, embarking on a strategy which backfired on them.

Lewis is a fast driver, he has proven that, but he is by no means a Michael Schumacher, nor even a Fernando Alonso.

A driver is as good as the package that is supplied to him by his team, then it is up to him to drive it beyond its potential.

2008 shall see a number of drivers trying to achieve that, because most have a point to prove.

Reno, Valletta, Malta

nobody has doubt about hamilton talent as "chauffeur", but many uncertainty remains about tth following questions
1.- the drivers this year (LH and HK) will be able to develop and setup the cars for the races?
at the moment, de la Rosa and Paffet did the work but in a weekend race the pilots must find their own settings
2.- last year the setup from FA was good for LH, but the setup from HK will be the best for LH?
3.- in this month FA gains (more or less) 0.6 seconds with R28, it is reasonable that he will develop more the car.

in my modest opinion, this season R28 will be the second car in the grid, if not from the first course in the global season

au revoir

AM, Salou, Spain

ah ah ah...
no football, no rugby, no F1... no basquetball... no..... no....no.... you will always have cricket as a hope......

Javier, Córdoba, Argentina

He can win an olimpic medal playing ping pong as well!

Boubles!

rtf, Madrid, Spain

How old are you pal?. It seems to me that you are loosing perspective. MS is a legend while the "briton" was just lucky to compete in a good car and that's it. Think of retirement, man!!

Robert Jung, Berlin, Germany

Tim (from London) I think you should read Kimi's Biograph and pay attension to his first F1 season with Sauber a back of the grid team and consider what he achived. Kimi has always out-drove the car. Hamilton is the first rookie to jump straight into a competitive car so put it in context. Lewis is no Schumacher, a Villnerve or a Hill he might be

Verbal, Midlands, UK

As far as I know, the same expectations came out for the other British pilot... what 's his name ? I do not remember ... more than one hundred races and only one victory.
Mosley is British, isn't him ? LH eclipsing Schumaker ?? ha ha ha!. First he has to win a WDC... and them four or five in a row.

JoseBelgica, Brussel, Belgium

Who listens to Max Mosley?

As an aside when asked in 2009 who came second in 2007 who's going to know or care?

With all the things that can go wrong in F1, LH may not even win one WDC never mind seven or eight.

However one concedes that should any driver emulates MS's achievements they will have scaled a personal everest so if you want to waste a euro put it on LH to do so (I suspect the odds to be astronomical) if he does succeed you'll never have to work again!

TriumphST, B,ham, UK

good achievements of Hamilton in his first year, indeed winning 4 races and nine podiums is a great record. now please allow me ro remind you a couple of things:

Senna started off his career in a Lotus.
Michael Schumacher started off in a Jordan.
Kimi started off in a Sauber.
Alonso started off in a Minardi.

i don't know of any driver who started his F1 career in a world championship potentially winning car, so Hamilton record needs to be looked up with some perspective.

what is more inspiring, Hamilton winning a race with the best or second best car of the grid, or Senna finishing in the points with a Lotus, or even Alonso finishing 13th with a Minardi and overtaking a Renault in his first race in Australia 01 ?
i don't know.

Hamilton does not need any more hype than the one he's getting, he is now arrogant enough. let's leave it a few years so we can have some perspective. there are plenty of drivers as good as Hamilton, without a proper car, so let's wait and see...

Carlos, Madrid, Spain,

It seems that he could be sending a message to the FIA, any case his words can be misunderstood .

Now we need that Felipe is a real alternative and R28 to be good car, then you will see how many wrong decisions can happen this year. Charlie better think twice before acting, as all people are watching and paying a lot of attention.

At least we are happy that with Ron management, Lewis Hamilton will do nothing better than speaking. What a chance he lost last year. "We were racing against Fernando" Do you remember?. Kova, bad luck you have this year.

Come on Plowman! We need gravel with good trenches.

victor, cadiz, spain

Maybe with the PlayStation.....

Whynot, Paris, France

Everyone keeps going on about how LH messed up last season and threw the championship away and that KR is a better driver blah blah, i think what people forget is that LH was on the podium for the first nine races, won 4 races, came second in the championship all in his FIRST season, something which kimi or alonso didn't do, i think mosley is right, lewis could eclipse Schumacher, but will be happy just to win one championship first

tim, London, England

It seems to me that Mr Gorman is so ansious.
To Improve Schumacher record, Hamilton has to win his first WDC, then another six.... maybe all of them in a row!

IDR, Madrid, Spain

Incredible. It is not fair at all to show suh a favouritism towards LH.

Carlos, Madrid, Spain