Royal Mail plans Lewis stamps

The Royal Mail is planning to honour Lewis Hamilton’s world title with… you’ve guessed it… a commemorative set of stamps. The stamps will be issued in the new year.

Hamilton wouldn’t be the first F1 star to get his own stamps. Gilles Villeneuve, Ayrton Senna, Mika Hakkinen, Michael Schumacher and, most recently, Kimi Raikkonen have all been recognised in a lickable format.

Call us mean-spirited, but isn’t it rather premature to honour Lewis in this way? Wait until he’s won a couple more titles, at least - then he’d deserve such a tribute. There are more deserving subjects. For example, as the Mirror points out, Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen “has been pressurising Royal Mail to issue a set of stamps commemorating British servicemen who died in Iraq”, but to no avail.

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