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Bid for F1 drivers' photos for Zoom

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You can bid for photos taken by F1 drivers and support charity at the same time with the Zoom online auction.

Zoom asks F1 drivers and key figures to provide a photo taken by themselves of their chosen subject, which is then signed and auctioned off to raise proceeds for the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity.

Earlier this month a number of figures including Christian Horner, Adrian Newey, Jolyon Palmer and Alexander Rossi attending an event at London's Intercontinental Hotel on Park Lane, with thousands being raised by the images.

The biggest lot of the night was Lewis Hamilton's shot of his pet dog Roscoe in front of the Colosseum in Rome, with his photo - which was supported by father Anthony at the event - fetching £3,000.

Television figures also managed to secured four-figure amounts for Great Ormond Street, with former BBC F1 presenter Suzi Perry's photo going for £1,100 and Sky Sports' Ted Kravitz raising the same amount by also promising to throw in one of his notebooks from a race weekend as part of the lot.

And Bernie Ecclestone - absent from this year's event while in Brazil - also raised £1000 with his photo of a skeleton sat at a desk.

Now you can bid to win photos - such as Kimi Raikkonen's picture above - via the online auction. Just visit www.coys-zoom.co.uk to register your bid on images from Raikkonen, Ecclestone, Felipe Nasr and more.

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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.