Lewis Hamilton: from karting journey to seven Formula 1 world titles

Larkhall, Scotland, 1998. Lewis Carl Hamilton was 13 years old when he has just won the national (British) karting championships in cadet and Yamaha categories. He had also already joined the McLaren Junior Driver Program at the time he made his debut on Formula Junior Intercontinental A class (JICA), which is the premier class of national (British) karting championships. His rivals that time were not such as today's Valtteri Bottas, Sebastian Vettel, Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc and Sergio Perez; instead of that time's Fraser Sheader, Russell Parkes, Christian Bakkerud, Mark Fell and Alex Lloyd.

WATCH: Lewis Hamilton's debut race highlights from Formula Karting Junior Intercontinental A at Larkhall, 1998

It was rainy that day. On his JICA category debut race, Hamilton started 4th on the grid. He then overtakes both Parkes and Sheader to take the race lead, and won the race by 15 seconds over Lloyd (2nd place) and Fell (3rd place) after Sheader and Parkes crashed out of the race.

Few months later at Buckmore, Kent. Started the race from the back of the grid after his kart suffered mechanical problems during qualifying heat, Hamilton storms the track by overtaking drivers ahead of him. This was the similar scenes as he did 20 years later in 2018 German Grand Prix at Hockenheim, where Hamilton won the race from 14th on the grid.

Hamilton eventually lost the JICA title to Sheader.

WATCH: Hamilton battles Sheader for the 1998 JICA title

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Hamilton's karting prowess drove him to 94 Formula 1 Grand Prix race wins and seven world titles since his F1 debut in 2007.

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