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Lewis Hamilton has achieved one of the greatest milestones in his career after winning his 100th career Grand Prix race at the 2021 Russian Grand Prix. And ahead of his journey to win his eighth world title, here are the numbers and facts behind Hamilton's 100 F1 race wins! 1. Largest margin (1 minute 8 seconds) Hamilton won the 2008 British Grand Prix by 68 seconds over Nick Heidfeld (BMW Sauber) in 2nd place in a rainy, wet and extremely difficult track conditions around Silverstone Circuit. 2. Most wins in a season (11 wins) Hamilton has won 11 races in a season enroute to his world title triumphs in 2014, 2015, 2018 and 2019. After joining Mercedes in 2013, Hamilton scored an average nine wins per season, while during with McLaren (2007-2012) he scored an average three wins per season. 3. Most wins in a single constructor (79 wins) His victory at the 2021 Russian GP became his 79th win since joining the Silver Arrows in 2013. Hamilton's other 21 wins were achiev...

Anthony Hamilton has been part of his son's success as Formula 1 world champion. It all began in Christmas 1993, when Anthony bought his son Lewis a kart, before Anthony allowed Lewis to compete in the junior national karting championship in 1995, when Lewis won the cadet title in 1996, won the Formula Yamaha title in 1997, but lost the premier-class junior intercontinetal A (JICA) title in 1998 to Fraser Sheader. Anthony continues to manage Lewis until Lewis' debut in Formula 1 in 2007 with McLaren, the team who helped Lewis into his successful karting career. He (Anthony) also helped Lewis to win his first world title in 2008. But it all went wrong from 2009 until his departure from McLaren in 2012. Lewis' relationship with American singer Nicole Scherzinger causing his title winning chances disappeared, so Anthony called Lewis to reject his (Lewis) relationship with Scherzinger and it did in late 2013, which currently she (Nicole Scher...

F1 cars are the pmost sophisticated automotive machines in the world - and yet, testing them on track or in the wind tunnel is extremely limited. There are only six days of pre-season testing and each race weekend comes with only four hours of practice. That's why Formula One teams rely on gathering data in the virtual world more than ever before - and a big part of that work is simulation. This area has become even more crucial during the 2020 season, because of the many new tracks on the calendar. What types of simulation do F1 teams use? There are a few areas of simulation that F1 teams use to prepare for a Grand Prix weekend, but the two main ones are driver-in-loop and computer simulation. Driver-in-loop (DiL) is effectively our virtual test track, where our car and the tracks we race on are modelled in incredible detail, to enable us to develop the car, find the right set-up direction and help the drivers familiarise themselves with a track in a virtual environmen...

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 cra...

Karting has been part of learning tools of future Formula 1 drivers since the sport's inception in 1950. Although the official karting commision named CIK (International Commisssion of Karting) was established in 1962, karting has made positive impact for producing future Formula 1 stars. Formula 1's greatest ever world champions including Alain Prost, Michael Schumacher, Fernando Alonso, Kimi Raikkonen, Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button, Sebastian Vettel, and Nico Rosberg have enjoyed their big success in their own karting careers respectively before becoming the Formula 1 world champion in the future. 1. National karting championships There are some countries which held the annual national karting championship in their own countries. In the U.K. for example: Nigel Mansell, Damon Hill, Lewis Hamilton, Anthony Davidson, Jenson Button and David Coulthard were the most successful drivers who have won most national championship titles. Only Mansell, Hill, Hamilton and Butt...

Lewis Hamilton's most recent success as the greatest driver of all-time in Formula 1 with 94 race wins and seven world titles was not far from his karting career's success. The British driver won the national karting championship before he's being called by Ron Dennis as part of McLaren Young Driver Program. And by the age of 13 in 1998, Hamilton drove the 1998 McLaren MP4/13 which led Mika Hakkinen won that year's Formula 1 world championship title. WATCH: Lewis Hamilton's race highlights from Formula Karting Junior Intercontinental A Karting has changed the successful career of Formula 1 world champions Fernando Alonso, Kimi Raikkonen, Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel and Nico Rosberg. Drivers shown in the picture above are Maximilien Blank and Jason Trulo. In his world championship karting debut, Hamilton then met and partnered with German national karting champion Nico Rosberg. He then battled Rosberg for the world karting title between 2...

A Formula One race or Grand Prix is a sporting event which takes place over three days (usually Friday to Sunday), with a series of practice and qualifying sessions prior to a race on Sunday. Current regulations provide for two free practice sessions on Friday (Thursday for Monaco), a morning practice session and an afternoon qualifying session held on Saturday, and the race held on Sunday afternoon or evening, though the structure of the weekend has changed numerous times over the history of the sport. At most Formula One race weekends, other events such as races in other FIA series (such as Formula 2) are held. A. Free practice sessions Since 2006, three practice sessions are held before the race; the first on Friday morning and the second on Friday afternoon. Both sessions last one and a half hours. The third session is held on Saturday morning and lasts an hour. Testing in the middle of the season is banned, but a third driver is permitted to take part in the first Friday free prac...

At the 2020 Eifel Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton tied Michael Schumacher's record of most Formula 1 World Championship Grand Prix race wins (91 times). This record will be broken if the British driver wins the Portuguese Grand Prix at Portimao circuit. Hamilton will also attempt to equal Schumacher for most driver's world titles (7) if he consecutively finishing the remaining six races in 2020 season ahead of his title rivals Valtteri Bottas and Max Verstappen. This record will also being broken in 2021, if Hamilton wins more races than his nearest competitors like Valtteri Bottas, Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc and Daniel Ricciardo. Earlier in 2020, Hamilton also tied Schumacher for most wins in a single Grand Prix after winning his eighth Hungarian Grand Prix race, equaling Schumacher's eight French Grand Prix wins. Hamilton also broke Schumacher's record for most podiums after winning the Spanish Grand Prix. Will Hamilton break Schumi...