Seven-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton awarded knighthood
Formula 1 | December 31, 2020 18:22 ISTHamilton is the first from the sport to receive the knighthood while still being an active F1 driver.
Hamilton is the first from the sport to receive the knighthood while still being an active F1 driver.
Hamilton has won six of his seven F1 titles and 74 of his 92 F1 races with Mercedes.
The seven-time world champion tested positive for COVID-19 the day after winning the Bahrain GP on Nov. 29 and missed last weekend's Sakhir GP.
Seven-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton has tested positive for COVID-19 and will miss the Sakhir Grand Prix in Bahrain this weekend.
The crash happened with seven-time F1 champion Hamilton leading from Red Bull's Max Verstappen and Racing Point's Sergio Perez.
The Mercedes driver was pegged to just 0.146 sec by Verstappen after the first runs in Q3, suggesting there could be a tight battle.
The seven-time F1 champion looked in total control as he set a time of 1 minute, 27.264 seconds under the floodlights.
The seven-time world champion received personally addressed letters from three alleged torture victims in Bahrain, and Hamilton's reaction was welcomed by the country's human rights group.
The British driver wins a dramatic rain-hit Turkish Grand Prix to match Michael Schumacher seven world drivers' championship record.
Hamilton beat Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas by 5.7 seconds and rushed over to celebrate with the team's engineers and mechanics after the team clinched another constructors' title.
Racing on the track where his childhood idol Ayrton Senna lost his life, Hamilton finished 0.097 seconds behind Bottas’ time of 1 minute, 13.609 seconds.
Hamilton clocked 1 minute, 14.726 seconds on the Enzo and Dino Ferrari track to finish 0.297 ahead of Verstappen's Red Bull.
More than a quarter of a century later, Hamilton still has vivid memories of when his father broke the news as the pair repaired his kart.
Hamilton finished nearly 25.6 seconds ahead of Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas and 34.5 clear of Red Bull's Max Verstappen for his eighth win of another dominant season.
Having secured a record-extending 97th career pole, Hamilton can make Formula One history if he wins Sunday’s race with a 92nd win to move one clear of Michael Schumacher.
Victory at the Portuguese Grand Prix on Sunday would move the British driver onto 92 race wins, and surpass the German great's mark of 91 that for so long had been considered untouchable.
The date saw a number of records -- or rather record-equalling achievements across three sports - Tennis, F1 and NBA.
Hamilton wins the Eifel Grand Prix on Sunday after Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas suffers DNF from the lead.
Bottas' time beat Hamilton by .256 seconds and Verstappen by .293. Ferrari recovered a little ground after a miserable run of races, with Charles Leclerc qualifying fourth and Sebastian Vettel 11th.
With the exception of the 1970 edition in Edinburgh, shooting, which is not among the core sports in the CWG programme, has been a part of every Games since Kingston 1966.
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