So firstly, he was born on 7 January 1985 in Stevenage, England.

Stevenage is a large in Hertfordshire,

He is actualy mixed-race because his dad is black, but his mother is white. Making him mixed-race, but
he identifies as black. He is the first black World Drivers Champion in F1.

He is religious and he was raised Catholic.

To support him and his carrer, his father became a contractor, dropping his job as an IT manager. He
worked up to 4 jobs at the same time, while still attending his sons races.

Hamilton was educated at The John Henry Newman School, a Catholic secondary school in Stevenage.

At the age of five, Hamilton took up karate to defend himself as a result of bullying.

In addition to racing, he played football for his school team. Hamilton, an Arsenal fan, said that if
Formula One had not worked for him, he would have been a footballer or a cricketer, having played
both for his school teams.

So, lets start from the begining.

Early racer – PRETVORITI U PREZ

You wouldn't expect rc cars to be the starting point for the career of one of the greatest drivers of all
time but for Lewis Hamilton that's exactly where it started at least from a competitive standpoint it was.

After receiving a rc car for his fifth birthday it set the wheels in motion and it got to a point where father
Anthony decided to get him into some serious competition and so after joining a local club in Stevenage
Lewis began competing in competitions with a degree of success.

After a successful year in 1992 Lewis and his dad went to try out some go-karts.

Lewis was hooked he loved carting. He wanted more of it and on Christmas he got his wish when he got
a present in the form of his first go-kart.

After a couple years of growing his race craft he won the British cadet championship in 1995. He was the
youngest driver to ever win it, at the age of ten.

It was during that year as well when Lewis attended the “sport awards dinner” in London. His father
Anthony realised the importance of being in a room full of motor racing hierarchy and legions and so
forth and gave Lewis an autograph book with spaces for contact details and effectively told Lewis to get
as many as he could.

Eventually they scoped out Ron Dennis, head of the McLaren formula one team.

He wrote his contact details, and said to Lewis: “Phone me in 9 years, and we will sort something out.”

Dennis approached lewis in three years with an offer of place within the mclaren camp, it was a huge
deal.
After many accolades in the british karting scene lewis was signed on to the mclaren driver development
program.

lewis also began racing on the european karting scene and it was in this time that he would encounter
none other than nico Rosberg and believe it or not these two were legitimate best buddies.

LOWER FORMULA RACING – STAVITI U PREZ

mclaren was still firmly in his corner and by 2001 it was time for lewis to enter the car racing scene
signing on to race with manor in the formula renault uk winter series at the age of 16. he was the
youngest driver to race in that series at the time.

He had questions regarding his future, was this all worth it, could he actually make it work. Well in 2003
he got his answer, when after a slow start he absolutely blitzed the field.

From silverstone onwards every race he finished he won and the field was still plenty strong.

But then came time for him to step up to the formula 3 euro series over it would be a place where
manor wasn't the best team around.

A problem with his main backers at mclaren was that they wanted lewis to remain with manor for the
next season but he wanted none of it.

He wanted to move on to another team that would give him a better shot at the title. The solution he
left McLaren.

First race after leaving McLaren at the Macau Grand Prix Lewis crashed into the wall and ended last.
Next race at the Bahrain Super Prix he came from the back of the field to take the win, an outstanding
drive and one that caught the attention of McLaren who welcomed him back into the team with open
arms. He would return to the formula three euro series still with the endeavour to be in the best team.

Lewis signed up with signature and what followed was well the one word that could describe it was
domination.

Out of the 20 races that season lewis won 15 of them he had won at every single circuit he raced at.

It pretty much went about as well as it could get that year, what it also meant was that he would
graduate to gp2 for 2006 driving with ART.

He won the GP2 championship at his first attempt, beating Nelson Piquet Jr. and Timo Glock.

F1 McLaren – staviti u prez

After finishing on the podium in his debut, Hamilton went on to set several records as he finished
runner-up in the 2007 World Drivers' Championship to Kimi Räikkönen by one point.

Hamilton's success continued in 2008 as he got five victories and ten podium finishes. As the season
reached its conclusion in Brazil, it became a clear two-way fight for the title between the home
favourite Felipe Massa and the young Briton. On the last lap in the final 5 corners Lewis overtook Timo
Glock for the fifth position witch gave him the 1 extra point he needed to win the 2008 World drivers
Championship

In his last four years with McLaren, Hamilton continued to score podium finishes and race victories,
without any titles because of the pure domination of Sebastian Vettel in the Red Bull.

Before the end of the year, Hamilton announced, to much surprise, that he would be joining Mercedes
for the 2013 season, replacing the retiring Michael Schumacher.

F1 Mercedes – staviti u prez

Upon signing with Mercedes in 2013, Hamilton was reunited with his childhood karting teammate, Nico
Rosberg.

In his first season with Mercedes he secured one race victory, winning the Hungarian Grand Prix.

Changes to regulations for the 2014 season, which mandated the use of turbo-hybrid engines,

Hamilton dominated the 2015 season, winning ten races finishing on the podium a record seventeen
times as he matched his hero Ayrton Senna's three World Championships titles. The rivalry between him
and Rosberg intensified.

Despite recording more pole positions and race wins than any other driver in 2016, Hamilton lost the
drivers' title by five points to his teammate, Rosberg.

Following Rosberg's retirement, Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel became Hamilton's closest rival as the pair
exchanged the championship lead throughout 2017 in a tense title fight. Hamilton registered 11 pole
positions that season and 9 race victories and securing his fourth World Drivers Title

The 2018 season was the first time that two four-time World Champions, Hamilton and Vettel, would be
competing for a fifth title

In 2019 Hamilton led the drivers' standings for the majority of the season, fending off title challenges
from other teams
Hamilton won his seventh drivers' title in 2020, equalling the record set by Schumacher, in a season
heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

And lastly it is the 2021 season, this season was quite dramatic with Max Verstappen taking the title in
Abu Dhabi. The last race was controversal because of the many bad decisions from the race director
Michael Masi, following the crash of Nicholas Latifi.

2022 – staviti u prez

The season saw significant changes in technical regulations which sought to utilise ground effect to
generate downforce.

The Mercedes W13 suffered with extreme porpoising early in the season which limited the car's
potential; at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, Hamilton deemed the car "undrivable".

Despite a total of nine podiums during the season, by the end of the season Hamilton failed to take a
single Grand Prix win or pole position during a season for the first time in his Formula One career and
finished 6th in the World Drivers' Championship.