Lewis Hamilton? He's sooooo June 2007...
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Taken from ITN News
ITN News said:
Next Lewis Hamilton spotted?
A three-year-old racing prodigy has been signed on a five-year deal as a works driver for Motorsport World karting team.
Ben Kasperczak, now four, was discovered on the same karting circuit where Formula 1 ace Lewis Hamilton began his career.
The tot, from Potters Bar, in Hertfordshire, is believed to be the youngest person ever to be signed as a works driver.
To put it in perspective, Ben is still at pre-school, is not yet out of night nappies and cannot even ride a bicycle without stabilisers.
His talent for driving was discovered quite by chance when his parents bought him a battery operated kart when he was two-years-old. Within 15 minutes his parents had noticed he had an uncanny knowledge of what he was doing.
His father, Paul Kasperczak, said: "I put timber blocks on the kart so that he could reach the medals and within 15 minutes he was spinning it around, doing turns. He was absolutely fearless, but in control. It was staggering."
His contract runs until his ninth birthday, during which time he will receive technical support, equipment, academy coaching and free time on the track and given all the opportunity to progress.
A three-year-old racing prodigy has been signed on a five-year deal as a works driver for Motorsport World karting team.
Ben Kasperczak, now four, was discovered on the same karting circuit where Formula 1 ace Lewis Hamilton began his career.
The tot, from Potters Bar, in Hertfordshire, is believed to be the youngest person ever to be signed as a works driver.
To put it in perspective, Ben is still at pre-school, is not yet out of night nappies and cannot even ride a bicycle without stabilisers.
His talent for driving was discovered quite by chance when his parents bought him a battery operated kart when he was two-years-old. Within 15 minutes his parents had noticed he had an uncanny knowledge of what he was doing.
His father, Paul Kasperczak, said: "I put timber blocks on the kart so that he could reach the medals and within 15 minutes he was spinning it around, doing turns. He was absolutely fearless, but in control. It was staggering."
His contract runs until his ninth birthday, during which time he will receive technical support, equipment, academy coaching and free time on the track and given all the opportunity to progress.
That's nothing. Ron has signed a multi-decade deal with Hamilton's sperm. Under the terms he has veto rights on any of Lewis' potential girlfriends. Rumours that he's flown out for talks with Danica Patrick are said to be "wide of the mark"
Edited by kevin ritson on Tuesday 3rd July 13:50
kevin ritson said:
That's nothing. Ron has signed a multi-decade deal with Hamilton's sperm. Under the terms he has veto rights on any of Lewis' potential girlfriends. Rumours that he's flown out for talks with Danica Patrick are said to be "wide of the mark"
Edited by kevin ritson on Tuesday 3rd July 13:50
Here is the same story on yahoo: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20070703/tuk-next-lew...
To me this is nothing particularly unusual. I remember when I was a kid my little sister doing something similar at the age of 3 or 4 we put her on a little electric kart-thingy at a seaside fairground and despite never riding on anything like that before she shot off overtaking all the other kids and showing excellent control and awareness of the track. We were all quite suprised maybe we should have called Ron Dennis.
I suspect this wont be the last of these sort of storys in the midst of 'Hammania'
To me this is nothing particularly unusual. I remember when I was a kid my little sister doing something similar at the age of 3 or 4 we put her on a little electric kart-thingy at a seaside fairground and despite never riding on anything like that before she shot off overtaking all the other kids and showing excellent control and awareness of the track. We were all quite suprised maybe we should have called Ron Dennis.
I suspect this wont be the last of these sort of storys in the midst of 'Hammania'
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