Claim: There is a driver named Lewis Hamilton.

The 2015 Formula One season was the 69th season of FIA Formula One motor racing . It featured the 2015 Formula One World Championship , a motor racing championship for Formula One cars , recognised by the sport 's governing body , the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile -LRB- FIA -RRB- , as the highest class of competition for open-wheel racing cars . Twenty-two drivers representing ten teams contested nineteen Grands Prix , starting in Australia on 15 March and ending in Abu Dhabi on 29 November as they competed for the World Drivers ' and World Constructors ' championships .   Lewis Hamilton was the defending Drivers ' Champion after securing his second title at the 2014 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix . His team , Mercedes , began the season as the defending Constructors ' Champion , having clinched its first championship title at the 2014 Russian Grand Prix .   The calendar featured two significant changes from the 2014 season . The first was the return of the Mexican Grand Prix , held for the first time since . The other change was the cancellation of the German Grand Prix after a venue could not be agreed upon , leaving the nation without a World Championship event for the first time in fifty-five years .   Hamilton secured his third Drivers ' Championship with three races left in the season . The runner-up was his teammate Nico Rosberg , 59 points behind , with Ferrari 's Sebastian Vettel third , another 44 points adrift . Mercedes clinched the 2015 Constructors ' title at the Russian Grand Prix , ahead of Ferrari and Williams , and ended the season with a record 703 points . Hamilton also won the FIA Pole Trophy with a total of 11 pole positions in the season and the DHL Fastest Lap Award . Ferrari won the inaugural DHL Fastest Pit Stop Award .