Lewis Hamilton Biography

Sir Lewis Carl Davidson Larbalestier Hamilton (January 7, 1985), better known as Lewis Hamilton, is a Formula 1 driver. He was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England. His father is Anthony Hamilton, a Caribbean immigrant from the island of Grenada, and his mother is Carmen Lockhart, of British descent. Anthony named him Carl in tribute to his great idol, the athlete Carl Lewis.

His parents faced a separation when he was only two years old, which made Lewis moved to Stevenage, Hertfordshire with his father and his second wife, Linda. His dad and Linda had a new baby, Lewis’ half-brother. Nicholas, who was born with a severe cerebral palsy, Lewis was very attentive with his brother and devoted all his affection. With him, he would see on TV the Formula 1 races that he was so passionate about.

His father had to work hard to be able to give the best to his children, although many times he did not succeed. He was employed in the public railways, worked more than 12 hours a day, and decided to study at night in an adult school. His father enrolled Lewis at the John Henry Newman School, at this school he was a frequent victim of racist insults. However, he was not intimidated and became a respected karateka.

Racism, again became an obstacle to his father, because he could not find some one who would sponsor his son so that he could demonstrate his abilities. Hamilton ended up quitting to karate. At one point, based on the great taste for racing, his father decided to enroll him in the British Kart Championship of 1995

. Lewis won. The family had to get borrowed costumes to attend the Autosport awards ceremony.

The president of McLaren congratulated him for his achievement and gave him his information so that Hamilton will contact him. This proposal was the beginning of a brilliant career as a pilot.

Three years later, Dennis McLaren, himself called Lewis to join him in his program of young promises, by that time Mika Hakkinen had won the Formula 1 World Championship. He started in Karting, with his right foot. Hamilton would become the favorite driver of Dennis, who entered him into the circuits of single-seaters in 2001. In addition, he participated in the Winter Series of Formula Renault. In his debut, Hamilton got the fifth place. However, a year after his skill made him win three races with Manor Motorsport and climb to the final podium as a third. The following year in this same test he would become champion.

His progress was such that in 2004 and 2005 he raced in the F-3 Euroseries and he was champion in the second season. This allowed him to compete in 2006 in GP2, a platform for Formula 1. He won the title easily ahead of Nelson Piquet Jr., that victory in his debut convinced McLaren to take him to Formula 1 with them. At the beginning it was hard for him to fit, he had problems in the season with his teammate, the Spaniard Fernando Alonso beside his inexperience. The following year he was world champion in 2008, in the Brazilian circuit of Interlagos, becoming the youngest champion in the history of the circuit, being only 23 years old, thus ousting Fernando Alonso who had achieved it at the age of 24.

This race in the Brazilian circuit was explosive, he was a few points away from the Brazilian Felipe Massa. In the last lap, Massa was the leader and Hamilton was sixth. In the paddock of Ferrari already celebrated the title, but surprisingly Hamilton appeared in the scene with his McLaren only 150 meters away, Hamilton overtook the German Timo Glock. In this way, Dennis and his compatriot Bernie Ecclestone, won the British championship, a fact that had not happened since the time of Damon Hill in 1996.

Hamilton besides being the youngest champion in history; he was the first black pilot.

In a short time, he had won several records. After running 35 Grands Prix, he had achieved 13 pole positions which is an absolute record. He equaled in prizes to Jacques Villeneuve when this one was his age. When the 2008 season ended, he was the driver with the best average points per year. His brilliant career, in addition to his physical appearance and ease in press conferences, made him one of the most popular athletes in the United Kingdom. The fame and admiration have been such that even Queen Elizabeth II congratulated him, and Ron Dennis gave him 138 million dollars.

He experienced a formal relationship with Nicole Scherzinger, singer, and leader of the group The Pussycat Dolls. Although clandestine love affairs were rumored with celebrities such as Naomi Campbell, and Sara Djjeh, daughter of the owner of Tag-Heuer and co-owner of McLaren. He would end his relationship with the beautiful singer. He spends his free time playing drums and guitar. He dared to participate as an actor, but his performance was very criticized, since then he did not appear in any artistic performance. He is also a fan of luxury cars and great power. For this reason, in his garage, there are several luxurious cars. He’s a fan of luxury, but his dream is to have the orange McLaren F-1 LM he fell in love with when he was 10 years old. In 2017, he was the leader of the World Championship with a time of 1: 30.076 in the qualifying session and he reached the first place in the circuit of Sepang, beating the Finnish Kimi Raikkonen of Ferrari and the Dutchman Max Verstappen of Red Bull. This allowed him a great advantage in the Malaysian Grand Prix race.

His level has been excellent, in recent years has been champion in China, Spain, Canada and Great Britain. In sum, Hamilton has triumphed consecutively in Belgium, Italy, and Singapore, finished second in Malaysia and took the road to victory in Suzuka. His circuit partner since he joined Mercedes has been the Finnish Valtteri Bottas with whom has duly fitted himself. In 2017, the Englishman managed to win a fourth crown for Mercedes.