Hamilton aims for three world championship titles
04 November 2008
Lewis Hamilton hopes he can claim the Formula One world championship title at least another two times. The 23-year-old Briton is promised a McLaren F1 LM by team boss Ron Dennis in case he wins three F1 championships for Dennis.
McLaren team boss Ron Dennis has promised Hamilton before the start of his Formula 1 career last year that he would give Hamilton an extremely rare McLaren F1 LM, which is currently on display at the McLaren's factory in Woking, if he won three titles for McLaren.
"I want to win this car, I want to get this car off Ron," Hamilton told the BBC. "I will definitely work as hard as I can to get to number three. We made a deal, three world championships. It's a car that I've always wanted. I got a car book, a nice book for Christmas years and years ago when I was about 10, and it had the orange McLaren F1 LM on the front of it. And that was my dream car then.
"Then I got signed up by McLaren, I went to the factory and saw it and ever since I've gazed at it every time I've walked past it. Still today, it's the only car I ever really stop by apart from Ayrton (Senna's) 1989 car.
"I stop by it and I always open it up and just smell it -- carbon, fresh, new. It's number one out of five and the most expensive and beautiful car in the whole world. It's the one that I want."