Good grief. It’s bad enough when I consider that I felt old when I realised that there were some people alive that were not alive when Reagan was in charge, but now it’s much worse.

Watching the GP over the weekend it transpired that Lewis Hamilton was named after Carl Lewis, because he was winning all his gold medals at the time when the young master Hamilton was born. Bloody hell! That only seems like five minutes ago! I can practically still feel the indignation at Carl Lewis’ arrogance - and to his credit, the young namesake is showing none of that. Plus he’s damn quick.

I’m not necessarily going overboard and backing him to win the world championship just yet - for that you not only need the talent but a consistently competetive car, plus the undevided attention of the team: I wonder if a no. 1 drive at, say, BMW will end up being where he needs to go in the forthcoming years to get the championship.

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