In the winter of 2020, lewis Hamilton, who is only 35 years old, has 94 race championships, 7 drivers' championships, and set countless records in F1...
"You should speak up on the track, with grades rather than words." Lewis's father told him.
Lewis was 8 years old when he first got into the karting, and he was not only the youngest driver on the field, but also the only black player. He experienced racism, those memories still loomed in his mind, and Lewis had to hide his weakness as much as possible and give them a head-on blow on the track.
At the age of 8, he showed extraordinary talent on the field, winning his first karting race.
At the age of 10, he has become.
At the age of 12, Lewis's father had to work four jobs at the same time to satisfy his son's racing dreams, and he barely managed to meet his son's race fees. In the newly formed family, Lewis also has a younger brother with cerebral palsy who needs to be cared for by his father, for Lewis, winning can not only effectively fight back against the insults and scorn of people at that time, but also strengthen his dreams and repay his father!
Have you ever eaten "marmalade"? Even if half of them hate it, half of them will be addicted to it.
Of course, not everyone liked him, but for those who liked him, Lewis was simply all.
"Call me in 9 years and we'll find a way to work together." McLaren F1 team boss Ron Dennis told Lewis.
Dennis brought hamilton the youngest signing in F1 in 1998, when hamilton was 13 years old.
Nine years later, in 2007, Hamilton, a first-year F1 student, actually finished runner-up in the first season, just one point away from the championship... It was also Hamilton's first title to regret losing.
But regret did not continue to haunt him, just a year later, in 2008, the year of the Beijing Olympic Games, Hamilton also won his first F1 driver's championship against Ferrari Racing Team Massa by one point, and the last title before McLaren's demise. It was also the youngest world champion in F1 at the time, and the only black champion to date.
At that time, Hamilton was ridiculed by the audience, booed by the audience, and even attacked his father during the test. Lewis had nothing he could do but keep proving himself on the track.
"Champions always have to learn to endure loneliness, try to accept failure, lie down and try to be bold, wait for recovery..."
Hamilton, who won his first driver's championship in 2008, fell into a several-year low, accompanied by the once-glorious McLaren's decline after the madness...
Hamilton began to decline over the next few years with the decline of McLaren. He did not perform well in the competition because of mechanical failures, and he later wrote in his memories: I want to admit that it is not easy to fail, but it is precisely because of those failures that I have accumulated more experience in the competition. In 2013, Hamilton moved to mercedes AMGF1 to start a new legend at Mercedes.
In 2014, F1 ushered in the latest change, the 1.6T twin-turbo V6 replaced the previous 2. The 4V8 marks the dawn of the hybrid era. Mercedes has shown great dominance in the hybrid era, and Hamilton has welcomed their first rival in the new team, Nick Rosberg.
The second champion, Hamilton, waited six years... In 2014 Hamilton beat strong teammate Rosberg to win a second driver's title and bring Mercedes the first hybrid-era title. There are many classic moments, the 2014 Bahrain Station Desert Rohan Battle, Hamilton defended at the end with Rosberg, who has a DRS blessing and a new tire.
The third championship, just one year later. In 2015, Hamilton showed an overwhelming advantage over Rosberg, locking up the drivers' championship three stops ahead of schedule. As he once said, he didn't leave Rosberg any chance. He also brought a second constructors' championship for Mercedes.
"Despite the failure, it still doesn't frustrate you, it just makes you stronger."
In the 2016 season, Hamilton won ten races, and at the end of the season, he won four consecutive races, but lost his fourth title to teammate Rosberg by 5 points.
Hamilton had a very bad season in 2016, suffering engine problems in China, Russia and Malaysia, and colliding with teammates in Spain, which made Hamilton have a tense relationship with Rosberg in 2016.
If Lewis hadn't had the hapless engine problem, he would have been good enough to go on to win the 2016 Drivers' Championship, and Rosberg was apparently aware of that and chose to retire after winning a title. Mercedes selected former Williams driver Bottas to partner Hamilton for the following race.
Record shredder
In the 2017 season, the comeback Hamilton locked up the drivers' championship two stops ahead of schedule directly after the Mexico leg, equaling the four titles held by Vettel.
In the 2018 season, Hamilton was a crushing victory, winning 11 races, and after the end of the Mexico race, he exaggerated the lead of Vettel by 88 points, once again locking in a fifth driver's championship.
In the 2019 season, Bottas only shook Lewis's rule slightly at the beginning of the season, and soon Hamilton defused the threat, ferrari's poor strategy and bad luck made it impossible to catch up in the second half of the season, and Hamilton went on to win his sixth driver's championship.
In 2020, the COVID-19 outbreak made the 2020 season much shorter than ever, but Mercedes' dominance reached a new peak in 2020, with one of the best cars since the hybrid era, the Mercedes W11 helping Hamilton come out on top. As for the only suspense Bottas, it is because of various instabilities that he is completely incapable of joining the championship team, and Hamilton is more than 100 points ahead of Bottas at the end of the season.
Finally, at the fourteenth stop of 2020F1, at the wet and slippery Istanbul Park Circuit in Turkey, the sixth starting Hamilton won the championship and crowned himself his 7th world title after 58 laps, equaling Schumacher's record.
In the 2021 season, although Hamilton was dramatically overtaken in Abu Dhabi and lost his 8th crown opportunity, Lewis Hamilton remains one of Hyundai F1's best drivers.
A good car is important, but if he doesn't have absolute skill, no team is willing to provide him with a good car, no team is willing to sign a black driver at that time, no team is willing to pay a high salary to ask him to drive, he uses his own efforts to buy a seat, which he gets much more rarely than a white driver, so of course it is worth the seat.
Many of us have only seen his brilliant times and successful times, but we have not seen his efforts, his previous efforts, and the doubts he has suffered.