Come on... she carried you for 9 months... least you can do is fly her to Australia... :

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Mother can't afford to see Hamilton's debut

Lewis Hamilton's mother has entered a television competition in a last ditch effort to watch her son make his formula one debut in March. Carmen Lockhart reportedly cannot afford to jet from her English home to Australia for the Melbourne opener, and is "too proud" to ask 22-year-old Hamilton - who has always lived with his father, brother and step-mother

http://www.f1i.com/content/view/6300/1/
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Can't wait till the season starts so we have something serious to talk about...