Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton
Born in Stevenage, January 7, 1985, the first black driver in Formula One from England, currently racing for the McLaren Mercedes team and the youngest ever Formula One World Champion. Coming from a mixed-race, white British mother and black father emigrated from Grenada.
Spectacular career in Formula One World Championship: wins: 9, podium finishes: 22, career points: 207, pole positions; 13 fastest laps: 3, Championships: 1 (2008, 98 points).
Early career, began karting (1993), at eight olds, winning races and championships at the Rye House Kart Circuit, continued his progress in the Intercontinental A (1999), Formula A (2000) and Formula Super A (2001) ranks, and became European Champion in 2000 with maximum points, first tested for McLaren in late 2004, at Silverstone. His 2006 GP2 championship coincided with a vacancy at McLaren following the departure of Juan Pablo Montoya to NASCAR and Kimi Räikkönen to Ferrari. His joined with McLarent’s on September 30 and partnering with Fernando Alonso.
Formula One career, his first F1 victory came at the 2007 season (Canadian Grand Prix), finished third in the race at the Australian Grand Prix, second in Bahrain Grand Prix, second in Malaysian, second in the Spanish Grand Prix, second at Monaco Grand Prix, the first in the United States Grand Prix, the first at Hungarian Grand Prix , fourth in Turkish Grand Prix, fourth in Belgium, third in French Grand Prix, third British Grand Prix, nein in European Grand Prix, second at Italian Grand Prix, first in Japanese Grand Prix, retired at Chinese Grand Prix, seven in Brazilian Grand Prix. 2008 season first race in Melbourne, fifth at Malaysian Grand Prix, thirteen in Bahrain Grand Prix, third at Spanish Grand Prix, second in Turkish Grand Prix, first at Monaco Grand Prix, retired in Canadian Grand Prix, ten in French Grand Prix, first at race British Grand Prix, first in German Grand Prix, the five at Hungarian Grand Prix, second at race European Grand Prix, third in Belgian Grand Prix, seven at Italian Grand Prix, third at Singapore Grand Prix, twelve at Japanese Grand Prix, first at Chinese Grand Prix, five at Brazilian Grand Prix.
Barack Hussein Obama
Born August 4, 1961, at the Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women & Children in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and January 20, 2009, will be president United States of America elected from Democratic Party. The same with Hamilton, his come from a mixed-race, Ann Dunham, a white American from Wichita, Kansas and Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a black Kenyan from Nyang’oma Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya, Africa.
Early life and career, his parents met while attending the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was a foreign student. They separated when he was two years old and later divorced, his father returned to Kenya and saw his son only once more before dying in an automobile accident in 1982. After her divorce, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, and the family moved to Soetoro's home country of Indonesia in 1967, where Obama attended local schools in Jakarta until he was ten years old. He then returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents while attending Punahou School from the fifth grade in 1971 until his graduation from high school in 1979. Obama's mother returned to Hawaii in 1972 for several years and then back to Indonesia to complete fieldwork for her doctoral dissertation. She died of ovarian cancer in 1995. He graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Law School (served as president of the Harvard Law Review), worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, elected to the Senate in November 2004 with 70 percent of the vote.
He was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996, reelected to the Illinois Senate in 1998, and again in 2002. In January 2003, Obama became chairman of the Illinois Senate's Health and Human Services Committee when Democrats, after a decade in the minority, regained a majority. He is a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, he helped create legislation to control conventional weapons and to promote greater public accountability in the use of federal funds. He also made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. He announced his presidential campaign in February 2007, and was formally nominated at the 2008 Democratic National Convention with Delaware senator Joe Biden as his running mate.