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Lewis Hamilton Sir Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton (born 7 January 1985) is a British racing driver currently competing in Formula One for Mercedes. In Formula One, Hamilton has won a joint-record seven World Drivers' Championship titles (tied with Mic ...
is a British racing driver. Throughout his career in the grassroots categories, he won the Formula Renault 2.0 UK Championship (2003), Bahrain Superprix (2004), Formula 3 Euro Series Championship (2005), the Masters of Formula 3 Race (2005) and GP2 Series Championship (2006). In his Formula 1 career, Hamilton has won seven world titles a record shared with German driver
Michael Schumacher Michael Schumacher (; ; born 3 January 1969) is a German former racing driver who competed in Formula One for Jordan, Benetton, Ferrari, and Mercedes. Schumacher has a joint-record seven World Drivers' Championship titles (tied with Lewis ...
. He also holds other records, as well as most career wins, most pole positions, most podium finishes, most career points, most laps led. As Hamilton debuted in the season, he became the first and only black driver in Formula One.


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Awards

* Autosport British Club Driver of the Year: 2003 * Autosport Rookie of the Year: 2006, 2007 * Autosport International Racing Driver Award: 2007, 2008, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 * Autosport British Competition Driver of the Year: 2007, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 * GQ Sportsman of the Year: 2007, 2014, 2015 *
Segrave Trophy The Segrave Trophy is awarded to the British national who demonstrates "Outstanding Skill, Courage and Initiative on Land, Water and in the Air". The trophy is named in honour of Sir Henry Segrave, the first person to hold both the land and wat ...
for Unprecedented Achievements in Debut Season in the FIA Formula One World Championship: 2007 * BRDC Gold Star Award, Era Club Trophy, Graham Hill Trophy, Richard Seaman Trophy: 2007 *
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Golden Steering Wheel for Outstanding Achievement: 2007 * Square Mile Sports Awards ICAP Sportsperson of the Year: 2007 * SJA British Sports Awards Best International Newcomer: 2007 * SJA British Sports Awards Sportsman of the Year: 2007, 2020 *
BBC East BBC East is one of BBC's English Regions covering Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, northern Buckinghamshire, and the majority of Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Essex. It is headquartered in The Forum, Norwich since 2003. It wa ...
Sports Personality of the Year: 2007 *Confartigianato Motori Best Driver Award: 2007 * Autocar Motorsport Award: 2007, 2021 * Pride of Britain Award: 2007 * Bambi Award (Special Jury Prize): 2008 *
Laureus World Sports Award for Breakthrough of the Year The Laureus World Sports Award for Breakthrough of the Year (known as the Laureus World Sports Award for Newcomer of the Year prior to 2007) is an annual award honouring the achievements of those individuals or teams who have made a breakthrough ...
: 2008 * BRDC Gold Star Award, Era Club Trophy, Graham Hill Trophy, Richard Seaman Trophy, John Cobb Trophy: 2008 * BRDC John Cobb Trophy: 2009 * BRDC Chris Bristow Trophy, Graham Hill Trophy: 2010 *Confartigianato Motori Best Driver Award: 2011 * BRDC Era Club Trophy: 2012 * BRDC Gold Star Award, Richard Seaman Trophy: 2013 * BRDC Gold Star Award, Graham Hill Trophy, Richard Seaman Trophy, Johnny Wakefield Trophy: 2014 * PAP European Sportsperson of the Year: 2014, 2019 *
BBC Sports Personality of the Year The BBC Sports Personality of the Year is an awards ceremony that takes place annually in December. Devised by Paul Fox in 1954, it originally consisted of just one, the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award. Several new awards have been ...
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* BRDC Gold Star Award, Graham Hill Trophy, Johnny Wakefield Trophy: 2015 *British Ethnic Diversity Sports Awards Lycamobile Sportsman of the Year: 2016 *Confartigianato Motori Best Driver Award: 2016 * BRDC Gold Star Award: 2016 * BRDC Gold Star Award, Johnny Wakefield Trophy: 2017 *
FIA Hall of Fame The FIA Hall of Fame honours racing drivers. It was established by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) in 2017. The first inductees were the 33 Formula One Formula One (also known as Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of ...
induction: 2017 *
Best Driver ESPY Award The Best Driver ESPY Award, known alternatively as the Best Auto Racing Driver ESPY Award, is an annual award honoring the achievements of an individual from the world of motorsports. It was first awarded as part of the ESPY Awards in 1993. The ...
: 2017, 2021 * Gazzetta World Sportsman of the Year: 2018, 2020 * SJA British Sports Awards Chairman's Award: 2018 * BRDC Special Gold Star Award, Gold Star Award, Graham Hill Trophy: 2018 * PETA Person of the Year: 2018 * BRDC Special Gold Star Award, Gold Star Award, Graham Hill Trophy, Johnny Wakefield Trophy: 2019 *
Honorary Fellow Honorary titles (professor, reader, lecturer) in academia may be conferred on persons in recognition of contributions by a non-employee or by an employee beyond regular duties. This practice primarily exists in the UK and Germany, as well as in m ...
of the Royal Academy of Engineering: 2019 * GQ Germany Creativity & Design Award: 2019 * PETA Menswear Collaboration Award: 2019 * PETA Libby Award: 2019 * Laureus World Sportsman of the Year: 2020 *
L'Équipe Champion of Champions L'Équipe Champion of Champions (french: Champion des champions de L'Équipe) refers to four awards presented by the daily sports newspaper ''L'Équipe'', to female and male international sports athletes and female and male French sports athletes. ...
: 2020 *British GQ Game Changer of the Year: 2020 * GQ India International Man of the Year: 2020 *Automobile Club d'Italia Trophy: 2020 * Sport Bild Star of the Year: 2020 *
FIA FIA is the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (English: International Automobile Federation), the world's governing body for all forms of motor sport where four or more wheels are used. Fia or FIA may also refer to: People * Fia Backs ...
President Award: 2020 *
FIA FIA is the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (English: International Automobile Federation), the world's governing body for all forms of motor sport where four or more wheels are used. Fia or FIA may also refer to: People * Fia Backs ...
Personality of the Year: 2014, 2018, 2020, 2021 *Laureus Athlete Advocate of the Year: 2021 * WSJ. Magazine Innovators Award: 2021


See also

* Formula One career of Lewis Hamilton * Hamilton–Rosberg rivalry *
List of Formula One driver records The World Championship of Drivers has been held since . Driver records listed here include all rounds which formed part of the World Championship since 1950: this includes the Indianapolis 500 in 1950–1960 (though it was not run to Formula ...


References

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