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4 Lewis HAMILTON • Great Britain • Vodafone
McLaren Mercedes
Born Jan. 7, 1985
F1 debut Australia 2007
Career statistics to end of 2011:
90 races
17 wins
19 pole positions
11 fastest laps
Lewis Hamilton has surprised many by announcing that he will leave his only Formula 1 home,
McLaren, and move over to Mercedes for 2013 and beyond. This is the boy who marched up to
McLaren boss Ron Dennis at the age of nine and announced he would like to drive for the team
one day…then duly joined them in 2007.
Less than two years later, at the last race of the 2008 season in Brazil, Hamilton overtook a
struggling Timo Glock on the final corner to claim fifth place, enough to make him world
champion in only his second F1 season.
Hamilton’s first major title was in the 2003 Formula Renault series with Manor Motorsport.
Graduating to the F3 Euroseries, Lewis dominated his second season in 2005 with 13 poles and
15 wins in a Dallara-Mercedes run by ASM. He followed his former karting teammate Nico
Rosberg into GP2, the new feeder category for Formula 1, in 2006.
Rosberg was that category’s first champion. In 2006 Lewis Hamilton was its second, winning
five races on the way. Grand Prix racing beckoned, and so did Ron Dennis.
Hamilton made his debut in Australian in 2007, qualifying the McLaren on the second row and
securing his first podium finish in a season that saw him become a Formula 1 race winner in
Canada and end the year as runner up to Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen.
He yearns for the second title that would underline his career credentials – and a disastrous
Korean Grand Prix, where he finished 10 th , had him all but acknowledging that it would not
come in 2012. How long will Lewis have to wait with Mercedes?
Lewis Hamilton’s 2012 statistics:
18 races • 3 wins • 6 pole positions • 0 fastest laps • 165 points
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