Lewis Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton started seeing Nicole Scherzinger, a popular singer, and after a lot of speculations about them splitting up and getting back together, they finally called it quits in 2015. They cited their busy schedules as the reason for separation.

Lewis Hamilton presently lives in Monaco, where he shifted from Switzerland. He doesn’t like living in the UK due to constant media intrusion in his personal life.

Lewis Hamilton was born in Hertfordshire, England, on 7th January 1985 to Carmen and Anthony Hamilton. Lewis went on to live with his mother when his parents separated while he was a toddler and later, in early teenage, he went on to live with his father and step-brother, Nicolas, who also happens to be a professional racer.

Lewis’ fascination with cars started at an early age while he was 6 years old when he got a remote control car as a gift by his father. He got fascinated with it and performed extraordinarily in the local competitions, that was when his father saw the budding talent in his son and gifted him a go-kart as a Christmas present.

Hamilton played football in school, and continued it through the whole time that he was in The John Henry Newman School. He later said that at some point in time, he considered being a footballer, but the go-kart championships he continued to win offered him a better career choice. At the age of 15, Lewis was named Karting number one player, a record which he still holds to this day.

Lewis Hamilton started his big league racing career with British Formula Renault Winter Series in 2001. The start was quite rocky, but despite a crash he faced during the race, he still finished fifth, which was magnificent. His performance helped him secure a place in the 2002 Formula Renault UK Campaign, where he ended up at the third spot. Racing for Manor Motorsport, he presented himself as one of the most talented youngsters to look out for.

His exceptional performance in Formula Three helped him race in the ART Grand Prix in 2006 and at his very first attempt, Lewis scored victory at the GP2 Championship racing against the likes of Timo Glock and Nelson Piquet. Lewis made his F1 debut in 2007 at the Australian Grand Prix, where he finished second, despite a crash. Later in the Bahrain and Barcelona F1 events, Lewis finished second.

Post a controversial qualifying season, Hamilton emerged a winner in the Hungarian Grand Prix while in the Turkish Grand Prix, Hamilton finished the race at the fifth spot. The rest of the year went quite average with no remarkable victory.

In the beginning of 2008, Hamilton signed a contract with McLaren-Mercedes to stay with them until the end of 2012. In the first race of the season, Lewis ended up scoring a victory in the Australian Grand Prix. He won Monaco Grand Prix and was the first runner-up in Turkey and later secured a victory in the British Grand Prix.

Hamilton took a 7 point lead into the World Championship during the Chinese Grand Prix by winning the race and later, when he needed to secure at least a fifth position in the Brazil Grand Prix, he emerged at the fourth spot and became the youngest Formula One World Champion. In 2009, Lewis scored tenth victory of his career at Hungaroring, and earned the first runner up spot in Valencia. By the end of the season, he received one more title win in form of Singapore Grand Prix.

As of June 2017, Lewis Hamilton’s net worth is USD 240 Million.