Lewis Hamilton is a British racing driver who has won seven Formula One World Championships. He made his Formula One debut with the McLaren team in 2007, achieving his first career victory in that year's  from his maiden pole position in only his sixth Grand Prix start. Hamilton achieved three more victories that season, becoming the second rookie after Jacques Villeneuve to be World Drivers' Championship runner-up, and equalled Villeneuve's record of most Grand Prix wins in his debut season. The following year, he won five , becoming, at 23 years and 300 days, the youngest driver to win the World Drivers' Championship at the time following a last-lap overtake on Timo Glock at the final round of the season, the wet-weather affected . The next four seasons saw Hamilton unable to match his championship-winning performances, achieving two victories in , three in each of  and  and four in his final season with McLaren in .

He replaced the retired Michael Schumacher at the Mercedes team in . Hamilton finished fourth in the championship, with a solitary victory at the , in a season dominated by the Red Bull team and its driver Sebastian Vettel. In  and , he achieved his second and third drivers' championships, with 11 and 10 Grand Prix victories, respectively, and developed a rivalry with his Mercedes teammate and former friend Nico Rosberg, with notable race incidents and crashes between the two. Hamilton won 10 more races in , but lost the championship to Rosberg, breaking the record for the most victories in a single season without winning the World Championship. He followed this with four consecutive championships, scoring nine victories in  and 11 each in ,  and . During the 2020 season, Hamilton won his 92nd Grand Prix at the , breaking Schumacher's record of 91 for the most career Grand Prix victories. He won eight more races in  but did not become World Champion, however, that season saw him become the first driver to achieve 100 victories when he won the . The  season was the first in his career in which he did not win a race.

Hamilton achieved all his 103 victories in cars powered by a Mercedes engine. He took 21 victories racing for McLaren and the remaining 82 at Mercedes. Hamilton has been most successful at the Hungaroring and the Silverstone Circuit, where he has won eight times each, sharing the record with Schumacher for the most victories at the same race track and the same Grand Prix, the British and Hungarian Grands Prix. He also holds the record for winning the most different Grands Prix and race tracks at 31 each, and shares the record for the most consecutive seasons with at least one victory with Schumacher at 15 years in succession. Hamilton's largest margin of victory was at the rain-affected , a race in which he finished 68.577 seconds ahead of BMW Sauber's second-placed finisher Nick Heidfeld, while the narrowest margin was at the , where he won by 0.439 seconds over Rosberg as he slowed in an unsuccessful attempt to allow other drivers to catch and pass his teammate in one last attempt to win that year's title.

Wins

Key:
 No. – Victory number; for example, "1" signifies Hamilton's first race win.
 Race – Race number in Hamilton's Formula One career; for example "15" signifies Hamilton's 15th Formula One race.
 Grid – The position on the grid from which Hamilton started the race
 Margin – Margin of victory, given in the format of minutes:seconds.milliseconds
  – Driver's Championship winning season.

Number of wins at different Grands Prix

Hamilton has won at a record 31 out of 38 different Grands Prix in which he has competed. The 70th Anniversary Grand Prix, the Dutch Grand Prix, the European Grand Prix, the Indian Grand Prix, the Korean Grand Prix, the Mexico City Grand Prix and the Miami Grand Prix are the seven races he has entered and not won.

Number of wins at different circuits
Hamilton has won at a record 31 out of 37 different circuits at which he has driven. The six race tracks where Hamilton has not won a Grand Prix are the Buddh International Circuit, the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, Circuit Zandvoort, the Korea International Circuit, the Miami International Autodrome and the Valencia Street Circuit.

See also
 List of Formula One Grand Prix winners

Notes

References

Bibliography

External links 
 Drivers: Hall of Fame: Lewis Hamilton
 Lewis Hamilton: Involvement from Stats F1

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