Riding the Roller Coaster
It was inevitable that Lewis Hamilton's sensational run of podium finishes would come to an end, but who could have predicted that it would end in such a dramatic weekend for the rookie driver? Richard Barnes admires Hamilton's perseverance and analyses the tightening championship battle
Sunday's 2007 European Grand Prix at the Nurburgring circuit will go down as a rich source of material for F1 trivia buffs, with the chaotic race inviting questions such as "Which F1 driver qualified stone last in his debut GP, but led the field by 19 seconds after just two laps?"
The answer, of course, is Markus Winkelhock. Although even the Spyker debutant's remarkable feat paled in comparison to the roller coaster fortunes that McLaren's Lewis Hamilton experienced.
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