TIL Desk Sports/ Lewis Hamilton joined one of sport’s most exclusive clubs when he became just the third driver to win a fifth Formula One world title. His fourth-place finish at the Mexico Grand Prix on Sunday lifted him into the company of the sport’s true greats, joining seven-time champion Michael Schumacher and fellow five-time winner Juan-Manuel Fangio — who he describes as “The Godfather” — in the F1 pantheon.
To have won more than men like Australia’s Jack Brabham, fellow-Briton Jackie Stewart, Austrian Niki Lauda and Brazilians Nelson Piquet and Ayrton Senna as well as modern day rival Sebastian Vettel is a spectacular statement of achievement.
The son of a black father and a white mother, who survived a broken home in his youth, Hamilton, 33, grew up on a municipal housing estate in Stevenage where his father Anthony at one time held down three jobs to fund his son’s embryonic racing career in karts.
Related Posts
