Lewis Hamilton Formula One World Champion

After a nail biting final lap of the Brazilian Grand Prix yesterday Lewis Hamilton crossed the finish line in 5th place and with it won what I hope will be the first of many World Championships – I can’t quite believe it but Britain is Formula One World Champion – how cool is that! Barely a year ago I was telling everyone how useless Great Britain is at sports, we seemed to be a national embarrassment when it came to victory in almost every sporting event, we couldn’t even qualify for the 2008 European Football Tournament, let alone win it. But the Chinese Olympics seem to change everything, we won our biggest medal haul for 100 years and both the Olympic and the Paraolympic contestants did the country proud, then Andy Murray seemed to be on a winning streak too and has had probably the best year of his tennis career to-date, and yesterday Paula Radcliffe won the New York Marathon and now to top it all Lewis Hamilton comes home as F1 World Champion. I eat my words and bow to the brilliance of British Sportsmen and women across the country – they are really doing the country proud again.

I wrote in my blog a few days ago that if Lewis won on Sunday the comparison between that win and what I hope will be another win on Tuesday in the US Presidential elections wouldn’t be lost on me, both black guys and both heading for victory – one down and one to go, fingers crossed!