Lewis Hamilton is a name that is being discussed a lot in F1 tournaments. Lewis is on par with the legendary Michael Schumacher with 7 world championships. But Michael Schumacher has retired and Lewis amilton still has a long way to go. Can Lewis Hamilton create new miracles and new records?
1. Who is Lewis Hamilton?
Lewis Hamilton is a British F1 driver born on January 7, 1985, and can be said to be one of the most successful drivers in F1 history. Hamilton has a total of 7 world championships, equal to the legendary Michael Schumacher. He can confidently say that he is the best of the best.
Another very special point is that Lewis Hamilton is the only black racing driver today. This is something meaningful to the black community when he both wins for himself and for the community. He has repeatedly spoken out to protect others from racism in response to this community.
Lewis Hamilton when he was 10 years old.
Similar to other drivers, Lewis Hamilton had to start his F1 journey with go-karts, a very popular mini car racing for young children. Hamilton, as a child, won the British Kart Championship (car racing tournament). kart for teens) at age 8.
With excellent achievements and a promising future, big names have begun to keep an eye on Lewis Hamilton. From here his F1 path has expanded further.
1.1. Lewis Hamilton at McLaren (2007-2012)
At the age of 13, Lewis was accepted by McLaren into the young talent training class and pledged that he would race in F1 at the appropriate time. At this time, he was also the youngest member to sign a contract with an F1 team. During this time Lewis won countless events such as Formula Renault UK 2003, Formula 3 Euro Series 2005 and GP2 Series 2006. He raced with the legendary Michael Schumacher in 2001 and later became world champion.
In 2007, McLaren officially promoted Hamilton to race in F1. That is the position left vacant next to Fernando Alonso because of the departures of Kimi Raikkonen and Juan Pablo Montoya. McLaren has not put a rookie on the track for a long time, so they are very skeptical about Lewis Hamilton’s abilities. What surprised everyone was that Hamilton had a podium in the first race. And the next 9 matches he still did the same thing.
And in the 6th race at the Canadian Grand Prix racetrack, Lewis Hamilton finished first for the first time. This is something that many other racers wish to have even after persevering in dozens or hundreds of races. But with his talent and speed machine, Lewis did this in just 6 matches
At Mclaren, Lewis Hamilton became the youngest champion at the time in 2008 with 21 straight wins. But in later years at McLaren, Hamilton did not win any more championships when he had to compete with extremely strong opponents. In 2009 it was teammate Jenson Button and 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 were all championships for Sebastion Vettel.
1.2 Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes (2013-Present)
Lewis moved to Mercerdes in 2013 and this was also the time when they dominated on all fronts. McLaren is increasingly showing signs of ups and downs while Mercedes is rising and achieving 2nd place in the team Championship. Lewis Hamilton immediately signed a new contract with Mercedes and stormed every race track with their speed machine.
Not only competing with other racing teams, but Lewis Hamilton also has to compete with his teammates. Both members own very good cars, but racing skills are what bring the final result. Many times Hamilton had collisions with his teammates, disagreeing over the tactics of the Mercedes team. Especially Hamilton’s biggest collision with teammate Nico Rosberg.
At Mercedes, Lewis has a total of more than 80 wins along with 6 world championships in 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 respectively.
2021 is a difficult year for Hamilton as rookie Max Verstappen and he both have the same score of 369.5. The race in Abu Dhabi with Max Verstappen first and Lewis Hamilton second deprived him of his 8th world championship. This was also the first world championship for Max.
2. Lewis Hamilton’s teammates
Mclaren: Heikki Kovalainen (2008-2009), Jenson Button (2010-2012), Fernando Alonso (2007)
Mercedes: Valtteri Bottas (2017-2021), Nico Rosberg (2013-2016), George Russell (2022-Present)
3. Lewis Hamilton’s achievements
In summary, Lewis Hamilton has more than 106 first places, 192 podiums and 7 Championship titles with just over 300 matches. In every 3 races, Lewis won once, a huge achievement.
At McLaren, he won his first world championship after only 1 year of competing. In his first year of debut, he almost won the world championship, only 1 point behind current champion Kimi Raikkonen. This is something that not many drivers can do when they first join F1, which is compete for the world championship.
Along with Mercedes, Lewis Hamilton won 7 world championships as well as many first place championships in the team championship. In addition, he also holds countless fastest records at racetracks
Lewis Hamilton also holds the record for the number of first qualifying times of 103 along with the number of podium times of 192. At the Silverstone racetrack in England, which is his home field, he also holds the record here with a total of 8 wins over Lewis. Hamiton is also the richest racer in England with a total fortune of up to 285MS. He also received the Royal Family
He was knighted for his great contributions to the country’s sports. He is no longer Lewis Hamilton but he has earned the name Sir Lewis Hamilton thanks to this.
