Lewis Hamilton

Lewis Carl Hamitlon, born on January 7th, 1985, is an English Formula 1 driver!

His grandparents immigranted to Britain from Grenada. Hamilton´s parents Carmen and Anthony Hamilton named him after the sportsman Carl Lewis, but Carmen and Anthony separated, when Lewis was two and until he was ten he lived with his mother and his sisters Nicole and Samantha. After that he lived with his father, stepmother Linda and half-brother Nicholas.

Hamilton´s first taste of racing competiton came at competition with radia controlled cars! Little Lewis was very successfull because he finished second in the national championship. Aged six his father bought him his first „car“ as a Christmas present, and woud support his racing career as long as he worked hard at school. Sometimes Anthony did three jobs at a time to support his son´s career and still found enough time to attend all his races.

Hamilton attended “ The John Newman School“ in Stevenage. He even took up karate. By the time he was twelve, he had won his first black belt in the sport, and he also played football very enthusiastically.

Nowadays Lewis Hamilton is a very popular formula 1 driver! Hamilton is driving for McLaren Mercedes and he started his formula 1 career in 2007. In his first three Grand Prix Lewis always finished on the podium. And i the middle of the season he took the lead in the drivers champion ship. He won the Grand Prix of Montreal, United States and Hungary. But at the end of the season he only came in second at the drivers champion ship after Kimi  Raikkonen.

Hamilton has matched or set the following records in Formula 1:

° Most consecutive podiums from debut race: 9 (previous record was 2)

° Most consecutive podiums for a Brithish driver: 9 (tied with Jim Clark)

° Youngest driver lead the World Champion ship.

°Most wins in a debut season: 4 (equalling Jaques Villenwuve´s record from 1996)

° Most pole positions in a debut season: 6