Although they were friends from karting, their relationship became strained and resulted in several volatile confrontations. During their time together at the Silver Arrows, the duo won 54 of 78 races over four seasons. As for Sebastian Vettel, Hamilton has called his rivalry with the German his favourite. After Mercedes dominated F1 from to , Ferrari came back to fight for the championship in and While the two had some tense moments on track, notably Baku in when Vettel drove into Hamilton, the pair have developed a mutual respect for one another.
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Despite taking pole for the first two races at Australia and Bahrain , be was beaten to the flag by Rosberg, who went on to take four consecutive victories from the start of the season. Hamilton suffered a technical issue in China and did not set a time in qualifying, and had to start from the back of the grid, but raced to 7th place. At the Spanish Grand Prix , Hamilton managed to achieve pole position, but at the start of the race, he was overtaken by Rosberg.
As he attempted to regain the lead, he was forced off-track by Rosberg before Turn 4, causing him to lose control and collect his team mate, ultimately forcing them both into retirement. Hamilton was finally able to take the first victory of the season at Monaco , thanks to a lengthy pit stop for polesitter Daniel Ricciardo. He won again in Canada but finished 5th at Baku due to an accident he had in qualifying.
Hamilton and Rosberg clashed again in Austria , when both of them made contact at Turn 3 of the circuit on the final lap. Hamilton went on to win, while Rosberg limped to 4th place and was penalized for the incident.
The controversy prompted Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff to threaten to suspend the drivers or impose team orders. We are fighting for the championship and only my engines are failing.
It does not sit right with me. After three further victories, Hamilton found himself behind Rosberg again for three races at after the end of the summer break. Hamilton took pole at Malaysia , but on Lap 41, with 16 laps remaining, Hamilton's engine failed, and he cried "Oh no, no! Hamilton finished a difficult third in Japan , having met with controversy for playing with his Snapchat during the pre-race press conference.
Despite winning the following races, Rosberg finished behind Hamilton, and at Abu Dhabi , Hamilton needed to win with Rosberg finishing fourth or below to be crowned champion. In the closing stages of the race, Hamilton tried holding up Rosberg so that he could be overtaken by other chasing rivals, but it was less successful, and Rosberg was declared champion, scoring five points over Hamilton's. For the season, Hamilton was partnered by Valtteri Bottas , who replaced Rosberg who announced his retirement after winning the driver's title.
Hamilton took pole in the season-opener as usual in Australia , but it was the Ferrari of Vettel who took victory due to a different pit stop strategy. The season would see a rivalry between Hamilton and Vettel, with their rivalry reaching a climax at Baku , where Vettel collided into the rear of Hamilton during a safety car period, pulling up to the his side and ran into him, accusing the latter of "brake-testing" him.
Hamilton looked set to win the race until he was forced to pit due to a headrest problem. He finished 5th behind Vettel. At Singapore , on a technical track which meant that the Mercedes could not run well due to their longer car base as they had been in Monaco , Hamilton took an unexpected victory, helped by both Ferraris and Max Verstappen retiring from a Lap 1 collision.
Further technical issues with Vettel meant that Hamilton took his fourth driver's title in Mexico , surpassing Jackie Stewart as the most successful British champion.
Hamilton's rivalry with Vettel continued in , where in the season-opener in Australia , Vettel won again despite Hamilton taking pole, thanks to a timely virtual safety car.
Several other low points for Hamilton in the season include retiring in Austria due to mechanical issues with Bottas, and being denied victory at Silverstone after being tipped into a spin on the first lap. Despite having a faster car, Vettel was subject to a number of on-track mistakes. After losing out to Vettel in Bahrain due to a grid penalty, and also a fifth place in China, Hamilton took victory at Baku after Vettel locked up while attempting to pass Bottas for the lead after a safety car session, having been off the pace for most of the weekend, and Bottas retiring from a puncture.
Hamilton won at Paul Ricard after Vettel spun upon making contact with Bottas on the first lap. Hamilton started 14th at Hockenheim due to a technical issue during qualifying, leaving Vettel to take pole on his home Grand Prix. As Hamilton charged through the field during the race, rain began to fall, and Vettel crashed out, having caught by the rainy conditions.
This left Hamilton to take victory, despite aborting a planned pit stop due to a miscommunication with the pit crew. After losing to Vettel again at Belgium , Hamilton took victory in Italy after Vettel made yet another error and spun attempting to defend from Hamilton on the first lap, and made a move on polesitter Kimi Raikkonen in the closing laps. Hamilton won in Russia but with controversy as Bottas, who took pole, was asked to let Hamilton by.
Further mistakes from Vettel in the next few races meant that Hamilton was crowned champion again at Mexico. It was during this time in , when Hamilton had extended his contract with Mercedes until Hamilton took pole again at the season-opening race at Australia , but it was Bottas who got a better start and won, with Hamilton nursing back with a damaged car floor and holding Max Verstappen off. He qualified third behind the Ferraris at Bahrain but gained the race win after Vettel spun while battling with him and Vettel's team-mate Charles Leclerc developing an engine issue in the closing stages.
Bottas took consecutive poles at China , Baku and Barcelona with Hamilton winning from Bottas in these races except Baku. Hamilton won from pole at Monaco whilst holding off Verstappen who had been issued a penalty for a pit incident with Bottas with worn medium tires, dedicating his victory to Niki Lauda , who passed away before the race weekend. He was beaten to pole by Vettel at Canada but inherited the race win after Vettel was controversially issued with a penalty for an unsafe rejoin.
He qualified second but was penalized to fourth place due to impeding Raikkonen, and could only come in 5th. After being narrowly beaten to pole by Bottas at Silverstone , he made use of a safety car period to pit during the race and took the lead and win. Hamilton took pole at Hockenheim whilst the Ferraris, the favorites for pole, were unable to qualify on the front spot due to technical issues.
However, a wet race saw many of the drivers spinning out, including Hamilton, who broke his front wing slipping off at the final turn. Hamilton suffered several more misfortunes, being penalized for entering the pit lane outside the bollard and spinning again, forcing him to pit again.
He crossed the line in 11th place but was reclassified as 9th after both Alfa Romeos were penalized, ensuring that he continued his points scoring streak. At Hungary , Hamilton started in 3rd while Verstappen took his maiden pole position. Hamilton later took an extra stop and managed to pass Verstappen into the lead in the closing stages, the Dutchman having been struggling with worn tires.
Hamilton finished behind Leclerc who took his maiden race win at Belgium. He battled with Leclerc for the lead at Monza , with Leclerc forcing him off from a chicane at one point. A further lock-up from Hamilton allowed Bottas to pass and finish second, with Lewis finishing in third. Hamilton and Bottas struggled again in Singapore , finishing 4th and 5th respectively as Vettel led home Leclerc a Ferrari Hamilton and Bottas managed to finish at Russia , following a pit stop during a virtual safety car period due to Vettel retiring from an engine issue, having passed polesitter Leclerc for the lead at the start.
Hamilton came in 3rd at Japan , having dealt with tire degradation issues, but nonetheless helped secured Mercedes' 6th constructors' title. After a Lap 1 clash with Verstappen at the start, Hamilton won in Mexico after running a long stint, but Bottas finishing in third meant that he would have to wait for the next round to secure the drivers' title. He started fifth while Bottas took pole at Austin , but took the lead running on a one-stop strategy.
He was passed by Bottas in the closing stages of the race and looked like he was about to be passed by Verstappen as well, but a late yellow flag helped Hamilton cross the line in second, enough for him to secure his sixth drivers' championship title. Hamilton qualified third in Sao Paulo as Verstappen took pole.
An undercut saw him emerge out of Verstappen during the safety car stops, but Verstappen repassed him after the safety car restarts.
In the closing stages, he tipped Verstappen's team-mate Alexander Albon into a spin, denying Albon his first podium and earning himself a post-race penalty, dropping from third to seventh after battling with the Toro Rosso of Pierre Gasly for second to the line, the penalty promoting the McLaren of Carlos Sainz, Jr.
Hamilton however took pole, dominated and won the season finale at Abu Dhabi , taking his sixth career Grand Chelem. As Formula One entered lockdown due to the COVID pandemic, which caused the season-opening Australian Grand Prix to be canceled and subsequent races postponed or canceled, American black citizen George Floyd was killed by a white police officer who knelt on his neck for about nine and a half minutes on May 25, leading to protests against racism worldwide.
This has caused Hamilton to criticize the F1 industry on their silence on the matter, writing on Instagram:. Not a sign from anybody in my industry which of course is a white dominated sport. Just know I know who you are and I see you…. I do not stand with those looting and burning buildings but those who are protesting peacefully. There can be no peace until our so called leaders make change.
The way minorities are treated has to change, how you educate those in your country of equality, racism, classism and that we are all the same. We are not born with racism and hate in our hearts, it is taught by those we look up to. This has prompted other drivers to release their own statements on the killing, and have them supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, and support was expressed from Mercedes, Toto Wolff and F1 managing director Ross Brawn [25].
Hamilton has since launched his own commission to increase diversity. Formula One has also launched the WeRaceAsOne initiative in response, with Mercedes having their cars painted black to support the cause. Hamilton was eventually included in the TIME Magazine's Top influential people of for his efforts to voice out about diversity.
Hamilton qualified second behind team-mate Bottas in the opening race at Austria , but was later given a grid penalty for ignoring yellow flags that was shown when Bottas had a spin in the dying seconds of qualifying. He then managed to recover to second close behind Bottas in the race, but after a safety car restart, he tipped Albon into a spin again, the second time in three races the two have collided, resulting Hamilton in receiving a post-race penalty and dropping to fourth, promoting Charles Leclerc and Lando Norris onto the podium, Norris taking his maiden career podium.
He managed to take pole by 1. He took pole and won again in the next race in Hungary. Hamilton took pole ahead of Bottas at Silverstone , despite having a spin during the qualifying period, but on the final lap of the race, his left front tire punctured after running a long stint, the same problem happening to Bottas and Sainz a few laps previously, but he managed to hold on and just able to win ahead of a charging Max Verstappen by 5. He and Bottas would lose the win to Verstappen on the second double-header round , with fast tire wear and Verstappen out-strategizing the Mercedes, but then took pole and won for two consecutive races at Spain and Spa.
He was able to win the next race at Mugello , taking his 90th race win, despite Bottas being fastest in all free practice sessions, passing him at the start and a series of incidents causing the race to be red-flagged twice. At Russia , Hamilton looked set to equal Michael Schumacher's record of all-time wins when he was issued a second penalty for doing practice starts at incorrect places in the pit lane, finishing third and losing the win to Bottas, having managed to narrowly escape Q2 during qualifying after having his lap time deleted for track limits infringements and a red flag caused by Sebastian Vettel crashing.
Hamilton managed to equal Schumacher's all-time win record of 91 at the Eifel Grand Prix at Nurburgring , after pole-sitter Bottas retired. He was presented a helmet of Schumacher by Schumacher's son Mick as a commemoration. Schumacher's all-time record wins was broken after Hamilton won the next round in Portugal. At Imola , Hamilton won ahead of pole-sitter Bottas after running a longer stint and a timely virtual safety car that allowed him to stop without losing position, the result helping Mercedes securing their 7th constructors' title.
Hamilton and Mercedes struggled at the Turkish Grand Prix , with the track being newly-resurfaced and qualifying 6th in a wet session.
He later capitalized a few drivers making additional stops and having their own misfortunes to take the lead in the race, and eventually won and being crowned the world champion of , his seventh and ultimately equaling Michael Schumacher's title record.
Following long weeks of speculation after delays in contract extension, it was announced on February 8 that Hamilton would continue for another year in , having signed the extension. Hamilton announced in October that he had plans to move to Switzerland because he wanted to keep away from the media scrutiny experiencing him while he was living in the United Kingdom.
He also explained on the Parkinson television show that another reason was because of taxation along with wanting more privacy. In early , Hamilton transferred his personal residence from Switzerland to Monaco, also being a tax haven. In , Windsor conducted a driving analysis of the different Formula One drivers' during February pre-season testing. Hamilton was noted to have made the entry and exit of turn two and three look as if it were "very, very easy. Correct as of the Mexico City Grand Prix qualifying.
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He cultivated a high profile presence on social media, remaining humble and profusely thanking his fans for supporting and inspiring him. His magisterial performance in elevated Lewis Hamilton to the highest echelons of the pinnacle of motorsport.
His fifth World Championship equalled the decades old milestone established by the legendary Juan Manuel Fangio. Against stronger opposition from Ferrari 6 wins and Red Bull 4 wins Hamilton led by example, setting a scorching pace on the track and taking it upon himself to motivate the Mercedes personnel to even greater effort.
They found his tremendous inner drive inspirational. His continual expressions of gratitude strengthened team spirit. His outstanding season, the product of greater understanding of the value of teamwork as well as his focus on continual self-improvement, was especially satisfying for Lewis Hamilton. His winning ways endeared him to yet more fans. The driving title his fifth in six years was hard earned in a field that featured several ambitious youngsters intent on dethroning the year-old superstar.
During the race season Ferrari and Red Bull each won three races but were undermined by uneven performances. Mercedes, superbly organised and cohesive with a strong team spirit united in a common cause, tallied 15 victories. Lewis Hamilton led the charge, outscoring his improving team mate Valtteri Bottas 11 victories to four and leading the league in terms of consistently delivering points. He was the only driver to score in every race, finishing on the podium in all but four events.
He relished the cut and thrust of close combat and was invariably a fierce but fair fighter. His driving was nearly faultless. When he made a rare mistake he was quick to admit it. He confessed staying on top was sometimes a struggle. Beyond excelling in his risky profession Hamilton continued to develop himself personally, furthering his interests in fashion and music, as well as exposing his social conscience.
A vegan of several years, he increasingly spoke publicly of his environmental and animal welfare concerns, and helped launch a plant-based burger restaurant in London. More than ever he focussed on using his popularity as a force for positive social change.
The non-stop action at existing and new venues featured exciting racing, displays of virtuoso driving, even a couple of first-time winners. A fiery accident from which driver Romain Grosjean miraculously escaped was a frightening reminder that danger is never far away. At the end of it, his year, race career had thus far produced 95 wins, 98 poles, podiums, as well as putting him atop several other categories, with no signs of him of slowing down.
Throughout his triumphant campaign Hamilton handled his class-of-the-field Mercedes W11 with methodical precision, controlling races, driving flawlessly fast, yet with car-conserving care, to far outperform his team mate Valtteri Bottas, who won just two races and finished a distant second overall, in an identical car.
Far from gloating Hamilton paid tribute to him: "Valtteri is amazing and doesn't get the credit he deserves. Lewis Hamilton fans, whose support he constantly acclaims, appreciate his personal warmth, humanity and candour. He uses prayer and meditation, practises yoga, reads self-help books to control his fears, bolster his confidence. His dog Roscoe, a faithful companion, is a source of joy. Peerless in the car, he is a vital component in the all-conquering Mercedes team, leading by example with tireless drive and determination, inspiring the personnel to constantly strive to improve their performance, making major contributions to the way the car and the teamwork.
He is a loyal team player, thanking everyone regularly.
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