You could say that heroic British Formula 1 drivers are a bit like buses. You wait years for one to come along, and then suddenly two arrive at once.
In Melbourne there was no doubt that the man of the moment was Lewis Hamilton, whose sensational debut points towards a fantastic future and inevitably a new British love affair with the sport.
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