Lewis Hamilton
Hamilton at the 2016 Malaysian Grand Prix
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| Born | Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton 7 January 1985 Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom |
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| Formula One World Championship career | |
| Nationality |
 British |
| 2017 team | Mercedes |
| Car number | 44 |
| Entries | 188 (188 starts) |
| Championships | 3 (2008, 2014, 2015) |
| Wins | 53 |
| Podiums | 104 |
| Career points | 2,247 |
| Pole positions | 61 |
| Fastest laps | 31 |
| First entry | 2007 Australian Grand Prix |
| First win | 2007 Canadian Grand Prix |
| Last win | 2016 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix |
| Last entry | 2016 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix |
| 2016 position | 2nd (380 pts) |
Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton,MBE (born 7 January 1985) is a British Formula One racing driver from England, currently racing for the Mercedes AMG Petronas team. He is a three-time Formula One World Champion. He won his first title with McLaren in 2008 before moving to Mercedes, where he won back-to-back titles in 2014 and 2015.
In December 1995, at the age of ten, he approached McLaren team principal Ron Dennis at the Autosport Awards ceremony and told him, "I want to race for you one day... I want to race for McLaren." Less than three years later McLaren and Mercedes-Benz signed him to their Young Driver Support Programme. After winning the British Formula Renault, Formula Three Euroseries, and GP2 championships on his way up the racing career ladder, he drove for McLaren in 2007, making his Formula One debut 12 years after his initial encounter with Dennis. Hamilton's contract for the McLaren driver development program made him the youngest ever driver to secure a contract which later resulted in a Formula One drive.
Coming from a mixed background, with a black father and white mother, Hamilton is often labelled "the first black driver in Formula One", although Willy T. Ribbs tested a Formula One car in 1986. Hamilton commented on this, saying "The way I see it, my colour is an advantage in that it's something people talk about", "Being the first black man doesn't matter much to me personally, but for the sport itself it probably means quite a lot."
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