Nationality: British
Date of Birth: 7 January 1985
Drivers championships:
2008,
2014,
2015,
2017,
2018,
2019,
2020
Grand Prix victories: 105
Races started: 356
Pole positions: 104
Teams:
Ferrari 2025,
Mercedes 2013 - 2024,
McLaren 2007 - 2012
Lewis Hamilton career
Lewis Hamilton has been sponsored by Ron Dennis since he was a youngster in karts and was given his break into F1 for the 2007 season. With seven finishes on the podium in his first seven races, and finishing his first season as runner up he is a young man making a big impact in the sport. In 2008 Hamilton became the youngest F1 World Champion with an overtaking manoeuvre on the last lap to give him the championship by 1 point. The 2009 season got off to a poor start and his first win was in Round 10 in Hungary. Improvements to the car gave him a better second half to the 2009 season. The 2010 season was much more competitive, with Lewis Hamilton winning three races and still in with a chance of the drivers title going into the last race of the season. There followed several seasons of finishing 4th in the championship, but then things changed for him, when he move to Mercedes in 2013 and with the introduction of the new hybrid engines in 2014. He and Mercedes then dominated the championship and in 2018 he became only the third driver to win 5 drivers championships and in 2020 matched the record of 7 drivers championships. In 2021 he became the most successful drive in F1 with the most race wins. At the start of the 2024 season he announced he was moving to Ferrari for the 2025 season. Instagram
Previous seasons
2025
Team: Ferrari
Position:
Points:
Race wins:
Pole positions:
2024
Team: Mercedes
Position: 7
Points: 223
Race wins: 2
Pole positions: 0 At the start of the 2024 Lewis Hamilton announced that he was moving to Ferrari for the 2025 season. He had for him a difficult season being consistently outperformed by team mate George Russell.
2023
Team: Mercedes
Position: 3
Points: 234
Race wins: 0
Pole positions: 1 The 2023 Mercedes was something of an improvement on the previous season but it lack the pace and handling of the Red Bull. In some races Lewis Hamilton was able to compete for a podium finish but in other races struggled to finish in the top 10.
2022
Team: Mercedes
Position: 6
Points: 240
Race wins: 0
Pole positions: 0 Lewis Hamilton had a difficult season with a car that did not perform to his liking. This was his first season without a race win.
2021
Team: Mercedes
Position: 2
Points: 378.5
Race wins: 8
Pole positions: 5 Lewis Hamilton had a season long battle with with Max Verstappen which went down to the final race that he lost in controversial circumstances on the final lap. In 2021 Lewis Hamilton won his 8th British GP and at the Russian GP, he won his 100th Grand Prix, the first driver to do so.
2020
Team: Mercedes
Position: 1
Points: 347
Race wins: 11
Pole positions: 10 Lewis Hamilton won his 7th drivers championship, being the class of the field in a car that was significantly quicker than any other car.
2019
Team: Mercedes
Position: 1
Points: 413
Race wins: 11
Pole positions: 4 Lewis Hamilton won his 6th drivers Championship well ahead of team mate Valtteri Bottas.
2018
Team: Mercedes
Position: 1
Points: 408
Race wins: 11
Pole positions: 11 Lewis Hamilton won his 5th drivers championship in a car that was not always the fastest in the field, but he managed to get the best out of it, whist his main rival Sebastian Vettel in the often quicker Ferrari made mistakes as did the Ferrari team. This season showed that Hamilton is the best of the current drivers and not just the person in the best car.
2017
Team: Mercedes
Position: 1
Points: 363
Race wins: 9
Pole positions: 11 Lewis Hamilton won his fourth drivers championship with his consistency of scoring points in every race ahead of Sebastian Vettel in a Ferrari.
2016
Team: Mercedes
Position: 2
Points: 380
Race wins: 10
Pole positions: 12 Lewis Hamilton lost out in the championship battle to his team mate Nico Rosberg, despite Lewis having more race wins in the season. He took his 50th pole position in the first race of the season in Australia.
2015
Team: Mercedes
Position: 1
Points: 381
Race wins: 10
Pole positions: 11 Lewis Hamilton won the 2015 drivers world championship to give him three world championships and the first British driver to win consecutive championships. He dominated the season with 10 race wins and 17 podium finishes. When he took pole position in China he became only the 4th driver to take 5 pole positions at the same track (along with Ayrton Senna, Michael Schumacher and Juan Manuel Fangio).
2014
Team: Mercedes
Position: 1
Points: 384
Race wins: 11
Pole positions: 7 In 2014 Lewis Hamilton won the drivers championship ahead of his team mate in a season when the Mercedes car and engine dominated the season. He won his 33rd race to put him ahead of Nigel Mansell (31 race wins) at the top of the list of British drivers with the most race wins, on his way to winning his second drivers championship. His 11 wins in a season is second on the list of most wins in a season.
2013
Team: Mercedes
Position: 4
Points: 189
Race wins: 1
Pole positions: 5 Lewis Hamilton made the move from McLaren to Mercedes for 2013which was somewhat surprising as McLaren was a successful team, but in hindsight it was inspired as the following year with the introduction of the turbo-Hybrid engines Mercedes dominated.
2012
Team: McLaren
Position: 4
Points: 190
Race wins: 4
Pole positions: 7 Lewis Hamilton took the most number of pole positions but only finished the season in 4th place.
2011
Team: McLaren
Position: 5
Points: 227
Race wins: 3
Pole positions: 1 Lewis Hamilton finished the season in 4th place behind his team mate Jenson Button who finished 2nd.
2010
Team: McLaren
Position: 4
Points: 240
Race wins: 3
Pole positions: 1 This was a more consistent season for Lewis Hamilton with 3 race wins and 10 podium finishes.
2009
Team: McLaren
Position: 5
Points: 49
Race wins: 2
Pole positions: 4 Lewis Hamilton had a mixed season with some good podium finishes and some nearer the back of the field.
2008
Team: McLaren
Position: 1
Points: 98
Race wins: 5
Pole positions: 7 The championship was a two way fight between him and Felipe Massa that went down to the last lap of the final race with Lewis Hamilton winning the championship, his first, by one point.
2007
Team: McLaren
Position: 2
Points: 109
Race wins: 4
Pole positions: 6 Lewis Hamilton had a very impressive first season finishing 2nd by one point to Kimi Raikkonen. There was some animosity between and team mate Fernando Alonso ending with Alonso leaving McLaren and Hamilton signing a new contract.
