McLaren, and then engine suppliers Mercedes, duly backed Hamilton through a sparkling junior career from the age of 13 before handing their long-time protégé an F1 seat in 2007 after back-to-back championships in Formula 3 and then GP2. Hamilton, aged 10 and an aspiring karter, met the title-winning F1 team boss Ron Dennis and told him that he would drive one of his McLaren cars one day. He's had the talent, and he's used it.'įrom 1993 to 2007, a picture a year of Hamilton on his rise to the F1 grid 'If anybody had any doubts, they were put to bed in race one' 'He's got supreme skills and talent, and he's applied them in the most impressive way. History-maker Hamilton: I'm just getting started.Lewis Hamilton clinches record-equalling seventh title in Turkey.But what we do now know is that Lewis Hamilton is, officially, the most successful driver in Formula 1 history, and one whose legacy will live long after his retirement. We don't know that he is the greatest British sportsman, and there are certainly plenty of contenders. We don't know that he is the 'GOAT', and F1 is quite possibly more difficult to compare the elite from different eras than any other sport. Winning a Formula 1 title, let alone seven, would have been an incredible achievement for a 22-year-old Lewis Hamilton, even with all his promise upon entering the grid with McLaren. Winning a Formula 1 race, let alone 95, would have been little more than a pipedream for a young Lewis Hamilton as he broke down barriers as a karter in Hertfordshire.

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