Hamilton back where it started

8220;Even now when I look back on last year, I wonder how I did it all as it is so hard to be consistent.8221;

Hamilton, with double world champion Fernando Alonso as his team mate at McLaren last year, won from pole position in Canada and went on to repeat the feat a week later in the US GP at Indianapolis.

At the end of an astonishing rookie season, the then 22-year-old Briton had finished runner-up by a single point to Ferrari8217;s Kimi Raikkonen.

Hamilton made clear how much that first victory had transformed his life. 8220;Beforehand you know you can do it, but believing you can do it then actually doing it and making it happen is a different thing.8221;