World championship leader Lewis Hamilton took pole position for Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix after pipping BMW-Sauber's Robert Kubica with the last lap of qualifying on Saturday.
Lewis Hamilton's world championship defence got off to a flying start on Sunday with a crushing victory for Mercedes in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix as Formula One rivals succumbed to a farcical rash of reliability problems.
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton won a chaotic and thrilling Belgian Grand Prix to seize back the Formula One championship lead from Red Bull's Mark Webber on Sunday.
Red Bull's Max Verstappen, last year's winner at his team's home circuit, qualified third.
Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton soaked up the energy of a roaring home crowd to win the British Grand Prix.
Lewis Hamilton lost a battle but regained a rival after Sebastian Vettel won Sunday's Australian season-opener for Ferrari.
'I'm so grateful for everyone who helped me be here, to raise the bar and lift the cup'
Lewis Hamilton will curb his natural attacking instincts at the Japanese Grand Prix in order to strengthen his grip on the Formula One world championship.
Former Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton is going to appear in the forthcoming Disney animated film 'Cars 2'.
The Briton's Finnish team mate Valtteri Bottas will line up alongside on the front row of the starting grid with Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel behind them.
If Lewis Hamilton wins the Formula One drivers championship this season, it will not be thanks to McLaren teammate Heikki Kovalainen - not yet in any case.
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton will start Sunday's Abu Dhabi Formula One Grand Prix on pole position with Red Bull's Australian Mark Webber also on the front row.
The Mercedes driver's 55th career win was hard-fought and tense, however, with Ferrari's Vettel seizing the lead at the start and in the hunt all the way to the finish as the tyre strategies played out.
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton crashed out of the Belgian Formula One Grand Prix Sunday, bringing out the safety car.
Lewis Hamilton does not fancy racing in hot and humid conditions and the reigning Formula One world champion believes it would make sense to schedule the 2011 Indian Grand Prix in the winter.
Formula One championship leader Lewis Hamilton made the wrong call in qualifying and ended up fifth on the Italian Grand Prix starting grid on Saturday.
There is a notable precedent for Lewis Hamilton, with four times world champion Alain Prost starting his Formula One career at McLaren in 1980 before moving to Renault for three years and then returning to win titles.
No financial details were given. Briton Hamilton, 23, was championship runner-up in his rookie season last year with four wins for the Mercedes-powered team.
The win also set a record, one that Hamilton had previously shared with seven times champion Michael Schumacher, of 41 wins from pole position.
Triple world champion Lewis Hamilton and team mate Nico Rosberg will be given more freedom to race each other this season, Mercedes motorsport head Toto Wolff said on Friday.
Ferrari's Felipe Massa put his Hungarian nightmare behind him on Saturday by beating title rival Lewis Hamilton to pole position at the European Grand Prix in Valencia. The 27-year-old Brazilian mastered Formula One's newest street circuit with a lap of 1:38.989 seconds to chalk up his fourth pole of the season and 13th of his career.
Jackie Stewart, Britain's only triple Formula One world champion, knows his record is on borrowed time after Lewis Hamilton's storming victory in Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix.
McLaren's Lando Norris hailed the best qualifying lap of his career after beating F1 leader Max Verstappen to pole position at the US Grand Prix.
Lewis Hamilton enjoyed an utterly dominant Italian Grand Prix victory on Sunday to take a 53-point lead in the Formula One championship after Mercedes team mate and closest rival Nico Rosberg retired with his engine in flames.
Hamilton said he only realised the significance of what he had done when he came into the pitlane after taking the chequered flag.
Lewis Hamilton's father always told him to 'drive like you stole it' but there was never any question about who owned Sunday's US Grand Prix.
McLaren's Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton can go on to match or even surpass Michael Schumacher's record of seven world titles, according to new team principal Martin Whitmarsh. Whitmarsh said Hamilton, who won the title by a single point despite winning fewer races than Ferrari's Brazilian Felipe Massa, is determined to win the title again to show that he is a worthy champion.
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo praised McLaren driver Fernando Alonso after he lost his world title by just one point to the Italian team's Kimi Raikkonen.
Silverstone can provide the antidote to Austria for Lewis Hamilton this weekend, with a record sixth British Grand Prix win -- and his fifth in a row -- there for the taking.
Lewis Hamilton turned a nightmare into a dream on Sunday with his worst race of the season ending with a fourth Formula One world championship.
Before the start, Hamilton had spoken of Hungary fast becoming one of his favourite circuits.
Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton showed his mastery in the wet to chalk up his third pole position in four races in Chinese Grand Prix qualifying on Saturday.
Unsmiling assassin Lewis Hamilton killed off Red Bull's run of 16 pole positions in a row with the fastest lap in qualifying for McLaren at the Korean Formula One Grand Prix on Saturday.
The pole was a record-extending 88th of Hamilton's career and fifth of the season.
That was only the 12th time that a driver had started that low and won.
Lewis Hamilton seized victory from the jaws of defeat after McLaren made their Formula One championship leader sweat for his second win in a row.
The second triple-header of a pandemic-hit season will be in front of empty grandstands and behind closed doors at Silverstone, celebrating 70 years since the first world championship grand prix there in May 1950.
Fresh from his 50th Formula One win, triple world champion Lewis Hamilton remains convinced anything is possible in the title race even if he could lose his crown as early as Sunday.
A light-hearted Lewis Hamilton laughed at the past and looked forward to a happier season ahead after helping Jenson Button take the wraps off McLaren's sleek new Formula One car on Wednesday.
Lewis Hamilton may have had some regrets already about his decision to join Mercedes next season, according to his McLaren Formula One team principal Martin Whitmarsh.
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