Lewis Hamilton blew off his frustration after finishing second in the Monaco grand prix by picking up a microphone.
The McLaren rookie would soon be at the centre of the team orders storm, but on Sunday evening he headed to Monte Carlo’s VIP nightclub Amber Lounge, which is the brainchild of former Ferrari driver Eddie Irvine’s sister Sonia.
The Spanish newspaper Diario As published a photo of Hamilton, 22, ‘rapping’ on stage during a stint as a DJ.
Jarno Trulli will swap his usual chrome helmet for a special pink design for the Canadian grand prix.
The Italian driver witnessed his lifelong friend Danilo di Luca win the recent Giro d’Italia cycling race, and Trulli will honour the victory by copying the colour of his riding gear and helmet.
Like Toyota’s Trulli, di Luca is also from Pescara, a small city in central Italy, according to the report in the sports daily La Gazzetta dello Sport.
1997 world champion Jacques Villeneuve says Lewis Hamilton’s start-line tactics are beginning to remind him of Michael Schumacher.
Villeneuve, who left the BMW-Sauber team and the sport mid-way through the 2006 season, was among the most outspoken critics of Schumacher’s tendency to ‘chop’ his rivals on the dash to the first corner at races.
And “Lewis is not getting penalised” either, Canadian Villeneuve marvelled to the British print magazine Autosport.
Another name can be added to possible alternative venues for the French grand prix — Versailles.
With the race almost certain to move away from uninspiring Magny Cours after this season’s running, F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone is keen to set up a new French event either in downtown Paris or the capital’s Disneyland Park.
A report in the sports publication L’Equipe on Wednesday, however, said officials of Versailles - which is not far from Paris itself - had put forward the historic city or suburb as a possible alternate F1 venue.
