Formula One world champion

Team Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team won the Formula One Drivers’ Championship with Lewis Hamilton in the fourth world title for the McLaren-Mercedes partnership. Lewis Hamilton finished first in five of the 18 races and won the title by just one point in the last race of an extremely exciting season, becoming the youngest champion in Formula One history. The Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team was vice world champion in the Constructors’ Championship. Once again, the reliable and powerful Mercedes-Benz Formula One engine made a vital contribution to this success - the result of our engineers’ continuous hard work. And the Mercedes-Benz Bank/AMG Mercedes team won the Teams’ Classification in the 2008 German Touring Car Championships (DTM), while finishing second in the Drivers’ Classification.