Brits on Pole

OK. Let us assume for a moment that the McLaren team is not corporately a bunch of liars, cheats and hypocritical opportunists, but a group of people very badly stung by the blows and disappointments of the last few months. We know that this might be a controversial assumption just now, but stick with us.

Lewis Hamilton has said that he believes Kimi Raikkonen deserves his 2007 World Championship title and says he looks forward to beating him on the track in future.

Straight from the horse’s mouth… here’s what McLaren Mercedes has to say about the rejection of its appeal over the result of the Brazilian Grand Prix.

McLaren’s appeal against the result of the Brazilian Grand Prix has been rejected by the FIA. The sport’s International Court of Appeal has reportedly that ruled the appeal against the decision of the stewards not to punish the Sauber and Williams teams at the Brazilian Grand Prix was inadmissible.

If you’re hoping to meet the publicity-shy Lewis Hamilton at the moment, you won’t have many opportunities, so best to grab them where you can. You may like to know that the ace British driver is shortly due to visit Borders Bookshop in Magdalen Street, Oxford, where he will sign copies of his new autobiography…

It is a maxim drummed into fresh-faced young news reporters before they are unleashed from training college and allowed out into the world to cause trouble. Dog bites man: no story. Happens all the time. Not even slightly unusual. Man bites dog, on the contrary, is a huge story, being something of a rarity.

Who on earth does McLaren have in mind to partner Lewis Hamilton in its second car next year? We ask this because Renault’s ace Finn Heikki Kovalainen has said that he still has no idea what he’ll be doing for the 2008 Formula One season.