Formula One has the kind of glitz and glamour that most other sports can only dream of, with pretty faces a fixture of the paddock. Here’s the WAGS (wives and girlfriends) grid for 2009:
Lewis Hamilton (GBR)- McLAREN
WAG factor: The defending world champion dates pop star Nicole Scherzinger, lead singer of The Pussycat Dolls who was at trackside in Brazil for Hamilton’s heart-stopping triumph in 2008.
“I almost broke down, it was so thrilling. I thank God,” she gushed. The pair met at the MTV Europe Awards in Munich in 2007. At 30, Scherzinger is seven years older than the driver.
Hamilton previously dated Miss Grenada beauty queen Vivia Burkhardt.
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Heikki Kovalainen (FIN)-McLAREN
WAG factor: Kovalainen has a British girlfriend Catherine Hyde who studies sports psychology. The couple are reportedly planning a wedding in 2010.
Felipe Massa (BRA)- FERRARI
WAG factor: Massa married Anna Rafaela Bassi in November 2007 and the two consoled each other when he lost the 2008 title by just one point to Hamilton.
“My wife is always helping me but after the last race in Brazil she was more depressed than me,” said Massa who met his wife-to-be during his early struggles as a driver.
“If I hadn’t been fired from Sauber at the end of my first season in 2002 maybe I would not even have met her. Who knows? I was back home in Brazil and I went to a friend’s house at the beach. This guy was going out with a girl and she was a friend of Rafaela.”
Kimi Raikkonen (FIN)
WAG factor: Married former Miss Scandinavia, and ex-model, Jenni Dahlman in 2004 and they have homes in Helsinki and Zurich. She is a keen horsewoman and owns four horses, three of which were reportedly bought for her by Raikkonen.
Fernando Alonso (ESP)- RENAULT
WAG factor: Girlfriend Raquel del Rosario is a Spanish pop singer with El Sueno de Morfeo (Morpheus’s dream).
Rubens Barrichello (BRA)- BRAWN GP
WAG factor: Barrichello married Silvana in 1997 and they have two sons Eduardo and Fernando. “She has helped me cope with all the positive and negative aspects of being a F1 racing driver, and I am very grateful to God for her existence,” he says.
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Adrian Sutil (GER)- FORCE INDIA
WAG factor: Sutil said in August last year that he only has eyes for the road. “Is it easier to get girls if you race in F1? The simple answer is ‘yes’. But I don’t have a girlfriend at the moment. I want to concentrate completely on my job, because I’m at a phase of my career when a relationship, particularly at the beginning, would be too distracting.”
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