Lewis Hamilton's career profile from when he first broke into the public eye to narrowly missing out on the 2017 F1 world title.<br /><br />Aged 10 Hamilton approached McLaren boss Ron Dennis and said he wanted to race for the team.<br /><br />Joined McLaren’s youth programme aged 13 and just 12 years on from first meeting Dennis made his F1 debut in 2007.<br /><br />Hamilton became the then-youngest F1 world champion in 2008.<br /><br />A switch to Mercedes in 2013 paid off by winning the 2014 and 2015 F1 world titles<br /><br />Narrowly missed out on a third straight and fourth overall world title to Nico Rosberg in 2016 by 5 points.<br /><br />Did you know<br /><br />- To date he has won at least 1 race and had 1 pole position in every F1 season he has contested<br />- In 2016 he claimed the unfancied record of most wins in a season without claiming the F1 world title (10)<br />- In July 2016 Hamilton became the 1st driver to win 4 F1 races in a calendar month<br /><br /><br />Visit the Crash.Net website here - http://www.crash.net<br /><br />Follow us on social media<br /><br />Twitter: https://twitter.com/CRASH_NET
