With four world titles under his belt, the Formula One star is on track to match Schumacher’s record
Now two-time world champion Lewis Hamilton was lauded by Britain’s Prince Harry as being a "legend", while media branded him the king of Formula 1.
All Lewis Hamilton has to do to clinch this year’s F1 championship is to win the next race but teammate Nico Rosberg will not go down without a fight.
Lewis Hamilton beat his Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg to claim victory in Japan, but Sunday’s race was overshadowed by Jules Bianchi’s crash.
Lewis Hamilton regained the championship lead after four months at the Singapore GP, but the title fight could eventually be decided by reliability.
Overall leader Nico Rosberg feels the pressure as Lewis Hamilton keeps the F1 drivers’ championship open with his victory at the Italian Grand Prix.
Lewis Hamilton recovered from a poor start to win the Italian Grand Prix ahead of Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg on Sunday.
Nico Rosberg came home 9.2 seconds clear of fellow Mercedes team-mate, Lewis Hamilton, who battled with loss of vision in one eye.
Mercedes’s Nico Rosberg has claimed his first Formula One victory in 111 tries as he led from pole position to take the Chinese Grand Prix in style.
Michael Schumacher gave a hint on Sunday that he is no longer enjoying Formula One and sparked rumours that he may be considering ending his career.
For Fernando Alonso and Mark Webber, their dreams of winning the Formula One Championship were lost in the pits.
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/ 4 February 2010
Nick Heidfeld joined the Mercedes Formula One team as test and reserve driver on Thursday, completing a trio of Germans in the new team’s line-up.
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/ 18 January 2010
Nico Rosberg, and not Michael Schumacher, will have the honour of driving the first laps with the new Mercedes GP Formula One car next month.
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/ 17 December 2009
Nico Rosberg believes seven-times world champion Michael Schumacher will find it difficult to return to the fast lane after an absence of four years.
Ferrari’s Felipe Massa won the Turkish Grand Prix from pole position for the third year in a row on Sunday after tyre concerns slowed Lewis Hamilton’s challenge. The Brazilian took the chequered flag 3,7 seconds ahead of the 23-year-old McLaren driver, who ran most of the race on the harder tyres and had to make three pit stops compared with his rival’s two.
Brazilian Felipe Massa stormed to victory on Sunday for his second successive victory in the Bahrain Grand Prix and answered his mounting bank of critics as his Ferrari team celebrated a comfortable one-two with Kimi Raikkonen finishing second.
McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton avoided the mayhem around him to open the Formula One season with a pole-to-flag victory in a crash-strewn Australian Grand Prix on Sunday. The 23-year-old Briton, last year’s rookie sensation, finished 5,4 seconds ahead of Germany’s Nick Heidfeld in a BMW Sauber.
Lewis Hamilton got an early psychological edge over Kimmi Raikkonen, winning pole position for the season-opening Australian Grand Prix while the world champion will start near the back of the grid. McLaren’s Hamilton had the fastest times in the second and third runs of the three-phase qualifying session.
Ferrari are back on top, Lewis Hamilton is a title contender and two-time Formula One champion Fernando Alonso is back with Renault. Add night racing to all that and one of F1’s most exciting seasons in 2007 is set for a worthy follow-up in 2008.
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/ 18 December 2007
The 2007 Formula One season went down as one of the most thrilling to date, with a three-way race for the title that ended with Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen edging McLaren teammates Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton in the tightest race for the drivers’ championship in 21 years.
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/ 21 October 2007
Kimi Raikkonen seized his first Formula One title by a single point after a stirring victory in Brazil that shattered Lewis Hamilton’s dreams. The Finn’s unexpected title triumph, leading Brazilian teammate Felipe Massa in a one-two finish, ended Briton Hamilton’s bid to become the youngest champion in his debut season.
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/ 16 September 2007
Kimi Raikkonen won the Belgian Grand Prix for the third time in a row on Sunday, leading a Ferrari one-two to revive his title challenge. Brazilian Felipe Massa finished second, 4,6 seconds behind the Finn, with McLaren’s double world champion Fernando Alonso third to cut teammate Lewis Hamilton’s overall lead to two points.
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/ 9 September 2007
Double world champion Fernando Alonso led a McLaren one-two in the Italian Grand Prix on Sunday to cut team mate Lewis Hamilton’s lead to three points with four races remaining. Hamilton (22) had another highly impressive afternoon but the British rookie was doomed to follow in the Spaniard’s slipstream.