HAMILTON LANDS McLAREN RIDE.(Competition)

Lewis Hamilton will step up in 2007 as world champion Fernando Alonso's teammate at the McLaren-Mercedes Formula One team. Hamilton will become the first Afro-Caribbean F1 driver. The 21-year-old Briton, already with four karting titles to his name, has been a protege of McLaren CEO Ron Dennis since he was 13.

Hamilton won the 2000 European kart championship, the 2003 U.K. Formula Renault championship, the 2005 Formula 3 EuroSeries title and the 2006 GP2 crown. After taking Nico Rosberg's place in the ART Grand Prix team, he beat Nelsinho Piquet (Nelson's son) to the GP2 title by ...

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