Ferrari Mailing List: NFC: Hamilton loses license

[Tom Reynolds (kjtar]

>From Crash.net:
(From http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/25122007/23/hamilton-loses-licence.html)
Hamilton loses licence.
Tue 25 Dec, 12:45 PM



French speeding ticket sees F1 ace lose licence for a month. 

Lewis Hamilton has been banned from driving for a month after being caught 
speeding on a French motorway. 

The McLaren Mercedes driver was clocked at nearly 200km/h near the town of Laon 
on Sunday, with police fining him 600 euros and confiscating his car - which 
has since been collected on his behalf. 

"He was very polite and co-operative," a French police spokesman told Reuters. 

Hamilton finished second to Kimi Raikkonen in the Formula 1 standings after the 
best rookie season in F1 history.

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Now, of course that brings up the question of what kind of car Lewis was 
driving, which, oddly, wasn't mentioned in the above story.  But, wait, there's 
more...and some more detail.  It was a Mercedes of some sort.



Lewis Hamilton banned from driving
(From http://cars.uk.msn.com/news/car_news_article.aspx?cp-documentid=7024900)

By Ian Dickson
December 18 2007
Formula One star Lewis Hamilton has had his licence suspended after being 
caught driving at 40mph above the speed limit in northern France.

Hamilton, who was driving at 122mph on the French autoroute near the town of 
Laon on Sunday, was banned for a month.

Police also fined him £429 and detained his Mercedes. A police spokesman told 
The Guardian newspaper: "He was very polite and cooperative." Hamilton has 
since had his car collected from the police compound.

The rookie McLaren driver narrowly missed out on the World Driver's 
Championship to Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen, and came second in this year's BBC 
Sports Personality of the Year.

He recently appeared on Top Gear, where he posted the fourth fastest time in 
the Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car segment, only a few tenths of a second 
behind the Stig, despite driving on an oily and greasy track. 

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And, finally (third time lucky?) we have a story posted at: 
http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=124023

PARIS - Lewis Hamilton, rookie star for the McLaren-Mercedes Formula 1 team 
this year, has had his driver license suspended in France after being stopped 
for speeding at 123 mph on the northern French A26 highway last weekend.

Hamilton was driving, bien entendu, a Mercedes-Benz CLK, which was confiscated 
by the police officers who stopped him near Laon, about 85 miles northeast of 
Paris. His speed of 196 km/h (123 mph) was well above the posted speed limit of 
130 km/h (80 mph). He was driven back to his hotel by police and received a 
mandatory fine of about $865 and had his license to drive in France suspended 
for a month.

A McLaren spokesman was quoted by the Times of London today as saying 
Hamilton's professional driving would not be affected by the penalty.



Lewis, practicing for the upcoming season already?  

Best to all,

Tom Reynolds

Tulsa, OK