Lewis Hamilton's F1 career began on this day in 2006 when he was announced as a McLaren driver. His potential was immediately obvious and, in today's Great Read from mid-way through Hamilton's first season, Stirling Moss compares the future champion's skills, maturity, modesty and confidence to the great Juan Manuel Fangio
For someone of my vintage it's a tremendous breath of fresh air to see someone like Lewis Hamilton doing so well. The statistics are amazing enough already, but they only really count in retrospect. For the present, he's pretty much unique…
I've been observing this sport, in one way or the other, for well over 60 years now and I can safely say in all truth that he is the most interesting and talented figure I can identify in all of that time. I know that he has been carefully managed, but I think it's about rather more than that, and I also think that if he fulfils his obvious potential then it is going to be difficult, however understandably so, for McLaren to let him be his own man. He has had a fantastic racing career already, let alone what he'll have over the next 10 to 15 years, but they did a fine job in taking him up...
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