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After asking you to vote for your leading drivers from the 2008 Formula 1 World Championship season, the time has come to start the countdown to the driver you voted the top star of 2008.

Formula 1 World Champion-elect Lewis Hamilton has finally responded to some of the attacks launched on him by his rivals in-between the Japanese and Chinese Grands Prix, describing former team-mate Fernando Alonso as 'a double world champion who got beaten by a rookie' and insisting he doesn't ha

Two of Formula 1's leading figures have accused world championship leader Lewis Hamilton of being 'arrogant', of possessing 'too high an opinion of himself' and of having 'learned nothing' from his Japanese Grand Prix indiscretion six days ago.

BMW-Sauber star Robert Kubica is the most deserving of the three contenders for this year's Formula 1 World Championship - that is the view of Jacques Villeneuve, who claimed the crown for Williams-Renault back in 1997.

Fernando Alonso has redoubled his attack on former McLaren-Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton as the 2008 Formula 1 world title fight closes in - by claiming that 'all the drivers want [Felipe] Massa to be champion'.

Kimi Raikkonen has admitted that the prospect of breaking his own record for the greatest number of fastest laps set during a Formula 1 season [see separate story - click

Having controversially dismissed McLaren-Mercedes' right to appeal the penalty meted out to on-the-road Belgian Grand Prix winner Lewis Hamilton yesterday, the FIA has responded to criticism by explaining that the circumstances were entirely different to those in what was on the surface a similar

Driver: Michael Schumacher (Ferrari). TV unilaterals:

Team members: Ove Andersson (Toyota), Patrick Head (Williams), Peter Sauber (Sauber), Paul Stoddart (Minardi) and Geoff Willis (BAR). Questions from the floor.

Drivers: Jenson Button (BAR-Honda), Heinz-Harald Frentzen (Sauber), Kimi Raikkonen (McLaren) and Michael Schumacher (Ferrari). Questions from the floor.