Team Lewis hits back

A recent publicity stunt where Lewis Hamilton played Apollo in the battle of Troy, set up by sponsors of the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team, has been met with much ridicule in the press. The Times has labeled Lewis' foray into acting "less like a majestic Apollo than a cross between Peter Pan and an astronaut."

However Lewis and Co. have decided to hit back at the press, suggesting there better reasons to nominate Lewis for the prestigious Golden Dumbass award in his short Formula 1 career thus far. Lewis' publicity manager went on to cite better moments in the young star's career that would trump the 'fairy astronaut Apollo' stunt, including beaching it in Shanghai at the pitlane entrance, and more importantly accidentally hitting the pit limiter while in a WDC winning position in Brazil.

It seems that brain farts aren't limited to Lewis himself, but also those that document his success. A prime example would be Frank Worrall, the author of 'Lewis Hamilton: King of the World', for putting in his book description that "Lewis Hamilton crowned his 2007 debut season by winning the title in Japan in October." The book was published in August 2007, 2 months before Lewis would eventually lose the championship to Kimi Raikkonen. Perhaps Worrall should stick to writing books about football...

The McBoom???

During the season opener in Melborne, reports from the Ferrari camp had blamed the engine failures on the standard ECUs. LSOF1 obtained images that the McLaren camp had installed a secret button on the steering wheel of their cars to kill Ferrari engines with the aid of secret algorithms written and hidden deep within the programming of the standardized ECUs.

The latest reports from Barcelona had suggested since the opening round, McLaren had removed the secret button from their steering wheels in fear of being discovered by the FIA, but instead have upgraded this engine kill system, nicknamed the “McBoom” to a portable device which can be remotely activated from anywhere within 5km of the pit lanes via a remote laptop.

Rumor around the paddock suggests this upgraded system was implemented as early as Bahrain, and was also the subsequent reason why Lewis Hamilton plowed into the back of Alonso’s Renault in the opening stages of the race.


Sources from within the McLaren camp informed LSOF1 that the accident between Alonso and Hamilton in Bahrain was cause by human error as the two member in the McLaren team that were operating the “McBoom” device had simultaneously activated the “Rev Reduction” on Alonso’s car and the “Boost” on Hamilton’s car, and McLaren has since solved this problem by only assigning the McBoom Device to one member of their race team.

When asked if the “McBoom” device was the cause for Alonso and Rosberg’s engine failures on Sunday in Catalunya, our sources in McLaren declined to comment except that the “McBoom” device is now in full operation after it’s testing during the recent tests in Barcelona and with the introduction of the MP4-23B due in the next few races, we should expect a McLaren on the top of the podium very soon.

Kimi's message to Lewis

We here at The Lighter Side of Formula 1, were shocked to learn that Ron Dennis has promised to give Lewis Hamilton one of only 5 existing McLaren LM cars if he can win the Driver's and Constructor's championships.

When Kimi was asked to comment about this, he responded, "Mmmmmbly stole from Ferrari mmmbly I'll fix it mmmbly."

Kimi then handed us an artist's rendition he had prepared.

Lewis Hamilton's Autobiography

Today, we spoke with McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton about his recently released autobiography titled "Lewis Hamilton: How I Became the World's Greatest Driver (almost)". Here is what Hamilton had to say.

"I'm very excited to have an autobiography on the shelves. Some people say that I'm far too young to already have an autobiography, but I know that people have been eagerly awaiting the chance to read about someone as great as myself." said Lewis.

Lewis continued, "What people don't know is that I actually am a superb writer. I may have invented the alphabet and paper, but I'll have to ask Ron if we stole that from Ferrari."

"Let's face it, even if I crapped on a piece of paper, I know I can at least sell a few copies to the ITV-F1 team.", Hamilton mused.

We here at the Lighter Side of Formula 1 have read the book, and have to say it was a decent read (almost). It was entertaining up until, like Lewis' 2007 season, it goes in the crapper during the last chapter. Lewis seemingly decides to declare this love for Ron Dennis, but goes on to reveal that he just can not seem to close the deal.

There have also been rumors of coffee table book of Ron Dennis' black and white portraits of Hamilton being released this Fall.