Born racer Hamilton demonstrates his killer instinct

Lewis Hamilton exploited his pole position and achieved a dominant victory at Hockenheim Even a great sportsman needs the unwitting collaboration of his rivals in order to define his pre-eminence but for Lewis Hamilton yesterday it came from, bizarrely, his own McLaren team, as well as Toyota's Timo Glock. Hamilton raced away from his pole position at the start of yesterday's race with such brio that the other 20 drivers in the race might have been under the distinct impression that they had engaged reverse gear. Felipe Massa, who had been second on the grid, watched the Briton's car get smaller and smaller in front of him as it pulled away at sometimes more than a second a lap. Soon the Brazilian was looking at a dot, and then fresh air. This, then, would be one of Hamilton's most convincing but less thrilling victories, it... [read full story]