Lewis Hamilton
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a.k.a. "Tyler".
Young British F1 driver, making his debut for McLaren in 2007. Parents are the infamous D-list celebrities Neil and Christine Hamilton.
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Early Career
Lewis was spotted by Ron Dennis when Ron dropped his children off at playschool one day and saw another child playing greedily with all the toy cars in one corner of the room, refusing to let any of the poorer kids get a go. Ron immediately paid £10 million for the exclusive rights to provide Lewis with a pedal car to use outside during breaktime.
As Lewis steadily moved into karting, McLaren provided an Adrian Newey designed motor for him to use at great expense. This proved to be cack, but Ron provided a better one designed by someone else and Lewis began to win.
He steadily moved through the ranks, winning series after series. When it looked like he may struggle to win a title, Ron simply paid for Mercedes to build a motor for Lewis's team to use which was far better than anything else available.
Lewis won the GP2 series in 2006, following in the footsteps of Nico Rosberg, but crashing far less often.
2007 Season
Ron Dennis and McLaren had possibly the easiest choice to make when deciding who would partner Fernando Alonso in 2007, either Lewis, who actually looked some cop, or Pedro de la Rosa, who had been rubbish for around seven seasons in a row for a variety of teams.
Lewis was given the nod, and was immediately lauded as the best thing ever by James Allen, making Jenson Button cry as he realised his Indian summer as the least-crap British driver in F1 was at an end.
Lewis started the season well, being beaten by Alonso in the opening race, but not by miles (as most cynics believed would be the case), nor by actually winning everything (as Allen believed would be the case).
A cautionary tale would be that last seasons wonderkid actually had a very strong debut race, before falling back into a shower of carbon-fibre and ruined chassis. But Lewis does at least have the honour of being the first ever winner of a round of the celtic cross-based Friki F1 championship. Which will please him immensely.
Weaknesses
If the world is to be believed, Tyler has no weaknesses, but Friki being the leading edge of Formula One leading edgeness has discovered a weakness-Tyres. Tyler/someone else [delete as applicable] seems to destroy his tyres far too easily. Nurburgring his tyre falls loose in qualifying and he crashes heavily. Then in Turkey he looks set to gain a podium before a front tyre de-laminates towards the end of the lap. Then with the 2007 title within his grasp his intermediate tyres begin to lose grip to the point where his rear tyre's canvas is showing. Then he slides off in the pitlane, putting David Coulthard and Roberto Moreno to shame in the process. Note to all F1 fans, Lewis is a tyre-destroying maniac!
Prediction for Brazil
Lewis will destroy his tyres somehow. He will either encounter a Nigel Mansell stylee blowout, thus ending his title dream, or will destroy his tyres doing donuts if he wins the championship. Friki is running down to his local bookies to place a bet on the former.
