Born and raised in Stevenage, Hertfordshire in England, the Englishman has raced his pedigree, intelligence, fearless and obvious winning mentality to the heart many across the world. The seven-time world championship winner has certainly made his mark as one of the greatest ever driver in the rich history of Formula-1, if not the greatest ever driver that the sport ever seen.
Furthermore, while his career might have been pounded with series of enmity either with his team mate or direct rivals, the 2020 world championship winner has certainly and judiciously used his intelligence and driving intensity to race his way to the top of the game with an excellence track record that would be difficult to break even after he has long retired from the game in the nearer future and according to theodds tracker, the black Englishman could well be sole record holder of the world championship victory at the end of the 2021 season with Eight victories to his name, as he is currently touted by the F1betsat 1.93 odds to win the 2021 Formula-1 driver championshipahead of the season surprise package, Max Verstappen who had been going toe-to-toe with the Englishman.
Before his career spring to limelight in 2007, the Stevenage born racer started dating Nicole Scherzinger, the lead singer of the American girl band the Pussycat Dolls. Although they broke up to focus on their respective careers in early 2010 but were spotted together at the same year in Turkish and Canadian Grands Prix. The couple split up and reunited several times between 2011 and 2015, but it was in 2015 that the couple finally split up for good.
More so, after ending things with his long-term girlfriend, Scherzinger, Lewis was rumored to have dated long-time friend Rihanna for awhile.
He’s also rumored to have dated Rita Ora, Finland LottaHinsa, Miss Grenada 2007 Vivian Burkhardt, model Winnie Harlow, Hungarian model Barbara Palvin, and Sofia Richie among many rumors that surrounded the relationship status of the 36-year-old England international. While he was also romantically linked to Nicki Minaj while the two took a romantic vacation to Dubai together, but nothing was confirmed.
In 2017, Hamilton expressed himself to BBC that he had become vegan because of what human is doing to the world, from the pollution to the incredible number of cows that are being produced and in 2018 the excellent driver was named the PETA Person of the Year for his vegan activism. In 2018, Hamilton further expressed in an interview that he gave up drinking some years back.
Moreover, Lewis Hamilton has been criticized by some MPs for avoiding paying U.K. taxes by living out of the country.
Early life
With a life full of ups and downs in his early while he moves from his mother’s house to his father house living with his half siblings here and there, the life of the seven times world champions couldn’t have so smooth. Lewis Hamilton was born on 7 January 1985 in Stevenage, Hertfordshire in England to the family of Anthony Hamilton (father) and Carmen Larbalestier (mother).
Although, the world championship defending champion is of mixed race due to the fact that his father was a black and his mother was white but he is mostly considered to be a black. Moreover, Hamilton was named after Olympic sprint champion Carl Lewis and he has justly make up to the name only sprinting with cars.
While his parent separated when he was so little at the age of 2-years-old, after which he lived with his mother and older half-sisters, Samantha and Nicola, until he was twelve. The British born driver then lived with his father and stepmother, Linda, and his half-brother Nicolas, who is also a professional racing driver till became of aged.
At age five, his father bought him a radio-controlled car, when it becomes so obvious of interest in racing even at that little time of his life. He quickly became addicted to the driving and racing as he came second in the BRCA championship in the following year when he was six and was competing against the adult at the time.
However, with him been the only black child racing at his club, Lewis was single out for racial abuse. Although the racial abuse got to him so early but his father quest to support his interest got bigger while he bought go-kart for the young Lewis while he was six-year-old.
Lewis Hamilton started his high school education in a voluntary aided school in his hometown, Stevenage at the John Henry Newman School. However, the British driver took up a karate class to defend himself as a result of bullying and abuse at school and in addition to racing the brilliant driver played association football for his school team with an eventual Three Lion player and former Aston Villa and Manchester United winger, Ashley Young.
Although, Lewis believed that he would have been an excellent footballer, if the Formula-1 did not work out for him or he would have been a very good cricketer if both didn’t work for him as he participated fastidiously well in these sports in his early life. More importantly, in February 2001, Hamilton began studies at Cambridge Arts and Sciences (CATS), a private sixth-form college in Cambridge.
Career
Lewis Hamilton in 1998 signed up with the McLaren young driver program. While he became an official Formula One McLaren driver in 2007 as he finished the 2001 season as the runner up to Kimi Räikkönen. But in 2008, Hamilton won the Formula-1 World Championship for the first time, while securing the victory in the last race of the season.
More so, Hamilton signed to drive for Mercedes in 2013. Starting in 2014, Hamilton won six more World Championships including back-to-back titles in 2014 and 2015 and he further won consecutive titles for the second time in his career in 2017 and 2018 and then again further the feat while he became the World championship winner in 2019 and 2020. Setting him up to tie his world championship wins to seven-time World Drivers’Champion with Michael Schumacher.
In fact, during his career span, Lewis Hamilton has continuously courted controversy for maneuvers on the track and remarks off of it. But this could well be attributed to the fact that he is a public figure and his words are often closely scrutinized.
While racing in Spain, he was the victim of racial abuse from some Spanish supporters. His close rivalry with Spanish driver Fernando Alonso was responsible for encouraging Spanish supporters to direct abuse at Hamilton. He admits he is very competitive and this sometimes-caused tension with other drivers. But, in June 2020, Hamilton revealed that he would be racing in a brand new, all-black Mercedes in support of Black Lives Matter. Hamilton has been vocal about the lack of diversity in Formula One racing.
Net worth
Lewis Hamilton is a British Formula One racing driver for the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula-1 team who has a net worth of roughly $300 million. While he is widely regarded as one of the greatest drivers in the history of the sport, if not the greatest driver.
Lewis is one of the highest-paid F1 drivers in the world, a feat that comes from a scintillating career that sprung in 2007 with seven world championship victory and several winning while recorded the sport highest victories. However, in a typical year, the black Englishman makes $55 million, the majority of which comes from his Mercedes contract that pays more than $40 million per year.
More importantly, the Staevenage born racer earned around $50 million from endorsements and prize money between 2016 and 2017, and between 2017 till 2018, he further earned $53 million. But in the following 12-month period of his career he earned $55 million.
However, his latest contract extension with Mercedes in 2021 has further assured him to earn roughly $55.8 million. In 2015, Hamilton became the wealthiest British sportsperson, when he became the best-paid driver in the history of Formula One.
Affluence
Hamilton owns a four-story mansion with six bedrooms in Kensington, West London that was built in 1860 with the current worth of $29 million while he also owns an apartment in Nyon, a suburb of Geneva, Switzerland, and in Monaco.
However, Hamilton listed his New York penthouse for $57 million in 2019. A penthouse located in the same building which comprises of mega entertainment superstars like Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel, Meg Ryan, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Bella Hadid, while his 8,900-square-foot unit is the largest penthouse loft in the building. Although, he acquired the apartment for $43.9 million in 2017.
Furthermore, apart from his real estate fantasies, the 36-year-old racecars drivers love for speed is justly attested to the fact of his automobile and being a world-famous Formula one driver, it is fairly obvious that Lewis Hamilton will be extremely affluent when it comes to cars and automobile as his loves for the speed ranges from limited 1966 Shelby Cobra 427, McLaren P1, Ferrari LaFerrari, Vision Mercedes Maybach 6, Mercedes AMG Project One, Mercedes SLS AMG, Mercedes AMG G63, Mercedes Maybach S600, Mercedes AMG GTR, Ford Shelby Mustang GT500, Pagani Zonda 760 and Ferrari 599 Aperta.