What would you expect from a Formula 1 driver that had a great season this year and finished 2nd on Top Gear’s test track, to do 80mph on the high way?

Anthony Hamilton, Formula One star Lewis Hamilton’s father and manager, crashed a borrowed Porsche Carrera GT after showing off to bystanders.

This modified Porsche Carrera GT (CGT) valued at $1.1 Million, appears to have gone into the siderails at a generous speed while driving at the Paul Ricard Circuit in France. The German prince is famous for his extravagant lifestyle and international chain of strip clubs! Maybe he was jealous of Lewis Hamiltons Father who crashed a friends Porsche Carrera GT??

Lewis Hamilton has been promised a $4 million McLaren supercar for free - if he wins the world titles this year. The 23-year-old British driver told The Sun newspaper that he first clapped eyes on the ultra-rare McLaren LM in the team’s F1 factory ten years ago.

Lewis Hamilton is on the verge of signing a $110 million deal to stay on at the McLaren team until the end of 2012. The German newspaper Bild claims the contract, representing a mammoth pay-rise over his debut salary, is worth $17m every year plus - oddly for a McLaren contract - the ability for his father Anthony to negotiate separate marketing arrangements.

This year the two main Mercedes-McLaren drivers Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen will race with two very special helmets sporting a Forevermark diamond encrusted Steinmetz logo and the drivers signature on top of the helmet are lined with hundreds of handcrafted diamonds.

At the end of the 2006 season, King Schumacher stepped out of his Ferrari with 91 race wins, SEVEN World Championships and over $800 Million in earnings. His retirement is analogous to removing the largest planet in a stable solar system, resulting in an immense rebalancing before any equilibrium returns......more...

Vodafone McLaren Mercedes driver Fernando Alonso finished the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai in second place. Whilst his team mate Lewis Hamilton retired, when he went off and got stuck in the gravel with worn wet tyres on a drying track.