Lewis Hamilton must forget about winning Sunday's title-deciding Brazilian Grand Prix and concentrate on taking the bigger prize of the Formula One championship, according to Jackie Stewart.

Britain's Lewis Hamilton took pole position for the Chinese Grand Prix after winning the qualifying session in a McLaren-Mercedes on Saturday in Shanghai.

Lewis Hamilton is on the cusp of something Michael Schumacher, Alain Prost and Fernando Alonso never achieved: winning the Formula One drivers' title in his first season.

Late Thursday, McLaren was fined US$100 million (EUR 72 million) and kicked out of the constructors' championship in the F1 spy scandal - but its drivers escaped any punishment and can continue to chase the more prestigious Formula One drivers' title.

It was a Hungarian Grand Prix that brought vindication for Lewis Hamilton and headaches for his McLaren team. Hamilton rebounded from an increasingly tense relationship with teammate and world champion Fernando Alonso and his boss Ron Dennis to earn his third victory of the Formula One season.

Double world champion Fernando Alonso seized pole position from McLaren team-mate Lewis Hamilton at the final qualifying session at the Hungarian Grand Prix in Budepest on Saturday.

Fernando Alonso can overtake teammate Lewis Hamilton in the season standings while their McLaren team takes its off-circuit feud with Ferrari back onto the track for the Hungarian Grand Prix this weekend.

Lewis Hamilton is only 22 years old and is already making sports history as the first Black driver in Formula One racing, but in his rookie year he is also setting records that may take some time to beat.

Britain's Lewis Hamilton completed a dream weekend by winning a dramatic and crash-affected Canadian Grand Prix overnight, his first Formula One victory.

The way this Formula One season is shaping up, Lewis Hamilton - not Fernando Alonso - could be the first McLaren world champion since Mikka Hakkinen. Hamilton leads the drivers' championship standings with 30 points, two more than his teammate, two-time defending world champion Alonso.

Lewis Hamilton, the new leader of the Formula One driver's world championship, heads to Monaco hoping to claim a maiden victory after his record run of podium finishes continued in the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday.

Lewis Hamilton has one Formula One record. If the McLaren rookie can manage to win his first Grand Prix, he just might claim the most important one of all.