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Revealed: How Hamilton's F1 promotion shocked McLaren team
A new book released this week offers insight into the surprise within McLaren when members of the team learned that Lewis Hamilton was being promoted to Formula 1 in 2007. Hamilton, now a four-time world champion, was famously signed to partner Fernando Alonso at McLaren in ’07 as a rookie after winning the GP2 title the year before. While he made an instant impact – winning for the first time in just his sixth start in Canada, and fighting for the title until the final race – before the year began it was impossible to know how well he would perform. Former McLaren mechanic Marc Priestley, who has released a book about his time in F1, said the news of Hamilton’s imminent...
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