His father bought him his first go-kart when he was six and took redundancy from his IT job, working jobs as a contractor, to support his son's racing career. Hamilton then lived with his father, stepmother Linda, and his half-brother, who is a professional racing driver in the British Touring Car Championship. Hamilton's parents separated when he was two, after which he lived with his mother and older half-sisters, Samantha and Nicola, until he was twelve. Hamilton is already arguably F1's greatest ever sportsman, as he also holds the record for most F1 wins, with 103, pole positions, with 103, and podium finishes, with 182.īorn Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton, Hamilton grew up in the Hertfordshire town of Stevenage to parents Anthony and Carmen.
He is currently level with fellow F1 legend Michael Michael Schumacher on seven world championships. The win would have made Hamilton F1's most decorated driver. The protests were rejected and Mercedes are now considering a further appeal, believing that Masi's decision contravened F1 rules set out by the FIA. While Hamilton appeared gracious in defeat, his Mercedes team were furious at Masi's decision, and lodged protests in a bid to overturn the result. Verstappen, on new tyres, easily breezed past Hamilton in the final lap to clinch the race win and the championship. Hamilton had lapped several cars which sat between him and Verstappen under the safety car.īut then race director Michael Masi controversially allowed those cars to pass the safety car to line up Hamilton and Verstappen for a final lap showdown.
Red Bull were able to gamble and brought Verstappen in for a fresh set of fast soft tyres. Hamilton was unable to pit for fresh tyres because his Mercedes team believed the race would end under a safety car and he would have conceded his first place to Verstappen. Hamilton had held an 11 second advantage over his title rival Verstappen when the safety car was deployed to help remove Williams driver Nicolas Latifi's smashed-up car. The Mercedes driver was cruising to victory in Sunday's race at Yas Marina - a win that would have secured him the 2021 championship - when a crash forced a safety car out onto the track.
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