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...only a couple of years after his karting debut as an eight-year-old that Hamilton raced to his first British championship. And countless more karting titles followed before he made the switch to cars in 2001. En route to winning the entry-level British Formula Renault series in 2003, he "made seasoned drivers look silly," says Tony Shaw, Hamilton's then team manager at Manor Motorsport. Hamilton's raw, natural speed and canny race craft nudged him closer to the big leagues. Hamilton's "understanding of when and where to overtake and how to take advantage of a situation...
...first crack at GP2, the training ground for Formula One, Hamilton dominated the 2006 season with a series of blistering drives on his way to the title. (On one occasion, starting from the back of the grid in Hungary after stalling his engine, Hamilton snaked his way to second.) And on the evidence so far, Formula One hasn't reduced his appetite for risky maneuvers. Hamilton is "not worried about showing or doing what he's used to doing just because it's Formula One," says Hill. For many new drivers, "that's an enormous hurdle." With the retirement last...
...Hamilton is certainly not short on confidence. When he first met Ron Dennis - now his Formula One team boss - as a 10-year-old in a borrowed suit, Hamilton promptly told him he wanted to drive for McLaren. Three years later, he joined the team's support program for promising young drivers. But, say former team managers, he's ready to listen and learn when things go wrong. Hamilton has a rare "capacity to question himself - to analyze very clearly after a race," says Frédéric Vasseur, general manager at the ART Grand Prix team behind Hamilton...
...whether he'll become the Tiger Woods of the sport, it's too early to know whether he can live up to those standards. But for now, his fans are bullish. Damon Hill was the last British driver to take the world crown. And it's Hamilton, Hill says, "who looks likely to be the next...
...growing number of voices outside Iraq--including the Baker-Hamilton commission--have called for the contentious issue to be shelved. But Kurdish leaders say further delay only increases the chance that the political process for settling the Kirkuk issue will turn into an ethnic struggle. Kirkuk is a major staging ground for Arab insurgents trying to infiltrate Kurdistan, and Kurds say they could do a better job than the Iraqi government of maintaining security there. "If we had control of Kirkuk, we could clean it out in two months," said Abdullah Ali Muhammad, head of Kurdish security forces in Arbil...