Lewis Hamilton’s prayers were answered in the Belgian Grand Prix when the heavens opened with just a few laps to go, leaving the British ace to pick up the victory as Kimi Raikkonen slipped up and careered into the wall.

Lewis Hamilton is all too aware of the threat posed to him by Felipe Massa at the start of today’s Belgian Grand Prix.

The championship protagonists line up alongside each other for the second race in a row, and although there has yet to be a coming together, Massa’s sensational getaway in Hungary, in which he dived around the outside of Hamilton, will no doubt be playing on the Briton’s mind again.

Lewis Hamilton and Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger’s relationship appears to be going strong.

The couple ate at trendy London eatery Nobu last night, accompanied by three of Scherzinger’s band-mates. The couple have spent a period in LA together before flying into London yesterday. The couple have been dating for around six months after meeting at the MTV Music Video Awards in Munich, Germany, earlier this year.

It was perhaps inevitable that Lewis Hamilton’s sensational victory in Monaco last week would evoke comparisons between him and the late great Ayrton Senna. Indeed, only twenty-four hours before the race Hamilton was explaining to reporters how he wanted to emulate his childhood hero’s success at the Principality.

As if the maturity and level-headedness Lewis Hamilton demonstrated on the way to his maiden victory in Formula One wasn’t enough, one year on and the British star insists he has grown even stronger.

The diamond encrusted helmets that Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen will sport in today’s Monaco Grand Prix have been rigorously proofed for aerodynamic efficiency, Forumula1.net has learned.

The McLaren-Mercedes duo will make the dash around the Monte Carlo streets this year in special personalised helmets; their signatures paved in a line of hundreds of Steinmetz diamonds.

Lewis Hamilton is bracing himself for an unpredictable and volatile foray around the tortuous streets of Monte-Carlo, but the British ace insists he is focused firmly on the job in hand despite the glamorous distractions that besiege the principality.

Reebok, who are owned by Adidas, are rumoured to be putting together a sponsorship deal with Lewis Hamilton. The deal, which has yet to be confirmed or finalised, is set to earn the Brit several million pounds and see him as a global brand ambassador alongside current Thierry Henry, Andrei Shevchenko and Amir Khan, all of whom already have contracts with the company.

Lewis Hamilton has made the perfect start to his season, grabbing victory at the Australian Grand Prix. The 23-year old Brit has said that the fifth Grand Prix win of his F1 career is his best so far.

The incidents at Barcelona a fortnight ago in which a small minority of Spanish fans hurled racist abuse at Lewis Hamilton caused a media backlash in the British press and led the FIA to introduce a new global anti-racism campaign. Christopher Hayes talks to Lino Uruñuela, webmaster of the Spanish Fan Site Fernando-Alonso.org, and assesses the reaction to events in Spain.