HAMILTON 'TRIES TOO HARD'

Martin Whitmarsh feels Lewis Hamilton has a tendency to "try too hard sometimes," but can be forgiven as he strives to become Formula One world champion. Hamilton was warned not to over-drive by his engineer Phil Prew during qualifying for Saturday's British Grand Prix after running wide on one of his hot laps. Only after the 23-year-old McLaren ace had clinched a stunning win in the wet at Silverstone did he concede to doing a "terrible job" the previous day when he could only qualify fourth on the grid. At that stage it appeared to be another mistake from Hamilton to compound those he made during the races in Canada and France and which had put him under an intense spotlight. But he redeemed himself with his glorious triumph to shoot him back to the top of the drivers' standings on 48 points alongside Ferrari duo Felipe... [read full story]