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Lewis Hamilton speaks about the upcoming 2010 Chinese F1 race:

It’s hard to believe that we’re heading into the fourth race of the year – the races have gone by so quickly. After Malaysia, I had a little bit of time to reflect on the year so far, and I’m pleased with the results that Jenson and I have been able to achieve in some challenging circumstances. And I’m really looking forward to an uninterrupted weekend in China so we can focus on racing and competing with the other leading teams in the championship.




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Q: For a 41 year-old the performance of Michael Schumacher wasn’t too bad…
Bernie Ecclestone: It has nothing to do with age. I’m already 79, so be careful what you’re saying!
Lewis Hamilton: Obviously some people don’t age. Like Bernie and Michael. Don’t forget, he’s still a seven-time world champion, even if he wasn’t at the very top in Bahrain. Though I’m sure that it did not go unnoticed that Nico (Rosberg) was faster than him all weekend.

Q: And what do you draw from that?
LH: That Nico was the faster one. You could see that most clearly in qualifying, where there are no differences in fuel load and it is all about pure speed. Nico was clearly faster.
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The results from the poll on who would be Lewis Hamilton’s main competitor in the 2010 Formula 1 season are here.

Over 1700 Lewis Hamilton fans have participated in the poll.
Here are the results:

Fernando Alonso has received the most votes for being Lewis Hamilton’s competitor by a country mile. Which seems to reflect his win in Bahrain last weekend.

Jenson Button and Michael Schumacher are relatively close together followed by Sebastian Vettel. I would have thought that Vettel would be most competitive after Alonso, as he as proven to be very good. We don’t know how Michael Schumacher was going to do so he’s a bit of an unknown and it also largely depends on how Mercedes GP improve. But he’s always going to be a threat.

It was also surprising that Nico Rosberg received so few votes as he’s a quality driver!

The 2010 Formula 1 season is certainly going to be interesting.

Poll results in %:
Fernando Alonso - 38.07%
Jenson Button – 19.62%
Michael Schumacher – 18.22%
Sebastian Vettel – 13.62%
Felipe Massa – 8.03%
Mark Webber – 1.28%
Nico Rosberg – 1.16%

The 2010 Formula 1 season is only days away. The season already seems to have all the ingredients for one of the most interesting F1 seasons.

Lewis Hamilton’s Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team looks to be in a much better position than it was last year.

Who do you think will be Lewis Hamilton’s main challenger?

The poll is now closed. Click to see the results.

McLaren unveiled the new 2010 Formula 1 car: the MP4-25.

The 2010 car look great. The MP4-25 looks relatively similar to last year’s MP4-24 car. Although this time round the car has a longer wheelbase due to the fuel tank volume increase, which has to contain enough fuel to last an entire race distance in 2010.

Click here for specific technical changes in 2010.

Do you think Mercedes will give Lewis Hamilton an SLS AMG if he is 2010 F1 world champion? Who knows, they might do (but he would probably buy one himself if he really wanted one).

The Mercedes SLS AMG can be seen in this video, it looks and sounds awesome! Especially doing an incredible stunt in the tunnel!

You looked unstoppable around the Abu Dhabi circuit, but the race brought the first mechanical retirement of your Formula 1 career – was it a weekend of mixed fortunes?

Not really. Of course, it’s disappointing not to finish a race – particularly when you’re at the front leading it – but I have to be realistic: to have got through nearly three seasons of racing and to only now be stopped by a mechanical failure is an incredible statistic.

You almost take reliability for granted these days, so it was weird to be stood in the garage watching the race rather than being in it. But I think we can all be proud of what we’ve achieved this year. We started the season with what was the slowest car in the field, but we never gave up, and on Saturday in Abu Dhabi, you could argue that we had the fastest car out there. That’s an absolutely incredible achievement – and I can’t think of a single team other than Vodafone McLaren Mercedes that could have done that.
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In this video Lewis Hamilton reflects on the race in Brazil and handing his crown to Jenson Button.

Another behind-the-scenes video with Head of McLaren Vehicle Engineering, Mark Williams, being our guide to ‘Mission Control’. We see Mark and his team of engineers, aerodynamicists and strategists as they correlate all the data during Friday’s practice at the Singapore Grand Prix.

This video shows the McLaren team working behind the scenes before the Monza race in Italy.