His fourth world title came in ; he also equaled the record created by Jim Clark by winning 11 hat-tricks. He won the Lorenzo Bandini Trophy in He had also won the Bambi Award in He won the Laureus World Sports Award in This fortune comes by winning a number of championships in his career. He is the richest sportsperson from Britain as of His success in karting and formula one has made him one of the wealthiest sportsperson in the world.
He has also won many Formula 3 Euro Series events. Lewis Hamilton is considered one of the most popular racing drivers in the world. He is a popular icon across the world and has several fans worldwide. He has influenced many people as he is the youngest person to win the world championship. Hamilton has made several records in Formula One. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Sign in. Log into your account. Password recovery. Some of these were open-and-shut affairs: blocking traffic at Singapore, cutting the track at Magny-Cours.
Others were controversial, none more so than at Spa, where he became only the second F1 driver ever to be stripped of a win post-race because of a driving infraction. After a similar setback at Fuji he bounced back to dominate the Chinese Grand Prix, which set him up perfectly for a shot at the title in the final race. Not wanting to repeat the mistakes of he drove an ultra-conservative race at Interlagos, which ironically almost cost him the title again, before that famous last-lap switch secured the championship by a single point.
They soon found themselves in even more trouble as they were accused of lying during the first race of the season. The stewards decided Hamilton and his team had misled them bout how Trulli had ended up in front of Hamilton during a safety car period at the end of the race.
It took half a season for the car to come good. When it did, Hamilton was back at the front, winning easily in Hungary at Singapore. By the end of the year he had climbed up to a wholly creditable fifth in the championship behind the Brawn and Red Bull drivers.
He bounced back in with the more competitive MP at his disposal. He led at the halfway point in the season after wins in Turkey and Canada. A third win followed in Belgium but his championship campaign hit trouble shortly afterwards with collisions putting him out in Italy and Singapore.
He stayed in contention until the final round, where he finished second, leaving him fourth in the championship. Yas Marina win was a highlight in a patchy campaign While Vettel tightened his stranglehold on Formula 1, Hamilton took three wins in a scrappy, error-strewn campaign.
The season began promisingly enough with second place at Melbourne. This was an immense relief for the team which had suffered numerous problems with its new MP in testing. Hamilton won the third race of the year in China in fine fashion, picking off his team mate, then hunting down and passing Vettel.
It looked like business as usual for him. But as the season went on it became increasingly clear Button was able to to get similar performance out of the new-specification Pirelli tyres without taking as much life out of them as Hamilton, Worse, Hamilton became involved in a string of incidents, many of them completely unnecessary.
He clipped Komaui Kobayashi while passing him at Spa, spearing into the barriers. He ran clean into the back of his rival in Singapore, prompting an angry outburst from Massa. He was summoned to the stewards time and again, and made matters worse at the Monaco Grand Prix with an ill-judged joke about the stewards pursuing him because of his skin colour.
He later apologised. Among the blunders there were moments when he was at the top of his game. Such as his consummate victory in Germany, outdoing Alonso and Webber in a tense, wheel-to-wheel battle. But even as the season drew to its close Hamilton was running behind his team mate on the track.
For the first time ever, he was also beaten in the points standings by the driver he shared a team with. But a strong of reliability problems and operational errors meant he was out of realistic contention long before the end of the season.
Hamilton was unable to convert pole position in the opening races into victories. Another chance was lost in Sub when he was sent to the back of the grid after running out of fuel during qualifying. His first win of the season came in Canada and although further victories followed in Hungary, Italy and America, he to often found himself out of the points through no fault of his own. As Hamilton neared the end of his five-year deal with McLaren there was much speculation over his future.
To the surprise of many, he announced after the Singapore Grand Prix he would end his association with McLaren and join Mercedes. It proved to be a well-timed move: while McLaren slumped to fifth in the world championship that year, Mercedes won three times and took second in the championship. Only one of those wins was scored by Hamilton — the others were taken by Nico Rosberg at Monaco and Silverstone.
But Hamilton led the latter before becoming the first of several drivers to suffer a tyre blow-out. He took pole position five times during the year, but was only able to convert it into victory in Hungary, as Mercedes struggled with tyre wear in the first half of the season. By the latter half of the year he was still not entirely happy with the balance of his car, yet narrowly beat Rosberg in the points.
The W05, produced to a new generation of rules for V6 hybrid turbo cars, utterly dominated the championship, and Hamilton duly clinched his second title.
The problems began at the very first race, where he retired with an engine failure shortly after starting from pole position. He reeled off a series of four wins in a row to reclaim the points lead from Rosberg, but at the middle of the session things threatened to get away from him. Rosberg led him home in Monaco after a controversial incident in qualifying where Rosberg went off the track, causing the yellow flags to come out which prevented a suspicious Hamilton from improving his time.
Rosberg added wins in Austria and Germany, the latter coming after Hamilton suffered a brake failure in Q1. Incredibly his car let him down during the first phase of qualifying at the next race as well. This time Hamilton fought back to lead Rosberg home, albeit having disregarded an instruction from his team to wave the other car past at one point. Matters came to a head in Belgium where Hamilton took the lead only to pick up a puncture while defending his position from Rosberg. Hamilton fumed, but set about reasserting himself with five wins on the trot.
But when the final race came Hamilton was leading comfortably when the latest Mercedes reliability problem took his team mate out of the running for good.
Hamilton saw off Rosberg for another title in Hamilton retained his championship in and by doing so drew level with the record of his hero Ayrton Senna — as well as surpassing his tally of 41 wins. Having been out-qualified by Rosberg too often the previous year, Hamilton addressed the one significant weakness in his form with astonishing thoroughness: over the first 12 races he started from pole position 11 times.
By converting the majority of those into victories he quickly put the outcome of the championship beyond doubt. In July he won his home race for the third time — as he had in his previous two championship-winning campaigns. A scrappy performance by the pair in Hungary saw Hamilton take sixth, two places ahead of Rosberg.
Rosberg led Hamilton out of turn one in Russia but he was to be disappointed by another breakdown while Hamilton took full advantage. That virtually decided the championship, and when an unforced error by Rosberg at the next race let Hamilton in to win again the championship was over. Worryingly for Hamilton, Rosberg rallied over the next three races, winning each from pole position.
That, and a stunning defeat in Monaco where an unnecessary pit stop dropped him from first to third, were the only significant disappointments in another tremendously successful campaign. At the time of Hamilton's birth, Rachel was married to John Lavien, a much older merchant whom she had been pressured to wed by her parents when she was a teenager. They had a son, Peter together. Lavien was abusive to Rachel and had spent nearly all the money she had inherited when her father died in During their tumultuous relationship, by Danish law, he even had her imprisoned for several months for adultery.
When she was released, instead of returning to her husband and son, the independent-minded Rachel fled the troubled marriage and moved to St.
It was there she met and moved in with James Hamilton, with whom she had another son, James Alexander's older brother , who was born in After moving back to St. Croix, James Sr. John Adams would one day come to characterize Hamilton's rise from humble beginnings by describing the young Hamilton as "the bastard brat of a Scottish peddler.
Determined to improve his lot in life, Hamilton took his first job at the tender age of 11, not long after his father left. But the family was soon dealt another sad blow. After working tirelessly to make ends meet, his mother became ill and died in at the age of Working as an accounting clerk in a mercantile in St.
Croix, the bright and ambitious young lad quickly impressed his employer. Through this early experience, Hamilton was first exposed to international commerce — including the importing of enslaved people — and learned about the business of money and trade.
Hamilton's boss, a businessman named Nicolas Cruger, so valued Hamilton's acumen when it came to accounting that he and other businessmen pooled their resources with a minister and newspaper editor named Hugh Knox to send Hamilton to America for an education. Hamilton had impressed Knox with an eloquent letter he had written describing a ferocious hurricane that had hit the island in In , when he was around 16 years old, Hamilton arrived in New York, where he enrolled in King's College later renamed Columbia University.
Despite his gratitude toward his generous patrons, with the American colonies on the brink of a revolution, Hamilton was drawn more to political involvement than he was to academics. In , he wrote his first political article defending the Patriots' cause against the interests of pro-British Loyalists. A quick learner, Hamilton deemed himself quite capable of becoming a self-made man.
Intent on learning through hands-on experience, he left King's College before graduating to join forces with the Patriots in their protest of British-imposed taxes and commercial business regulations.
In , after Hamilton fought in that year's battles of Brandywine Creek , Germantown and Princeton, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the Continental Army. During his early service in the fight for American independence, he caught the attention of General George Washington, who made Hamilton his assistant and trusted adviser.
For the next five years, Hamilton put his writing skills to work. He wrote Washington's critical letters and composed numerous reports on the strategic reform and restructuring of the Continental Army. By all accounts, they enjoyed a strong relationship throughout their marriage and would have eight children together, despite the revelation that Hamilton had once conducted an extramarital affair with a married woman, Maria Reynolds.
With my last idea; I shall cherish the sweet hope of meeting you in a better world. Adieu best of wives and best of Women. Embrace all my darling Children for me. Eliza, who lived for 50 years after the death of her husband, would dedicate her life to preserving his legacy. Growing restless in his desk job, in Hamilton convinced Washington to let him taste some action on the battlefield.
With Washington's permission, Hamilton led a victorious charge against the British in the Battle of Yorktown.
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