Get a closer look at some of Hollywood's perfect pairs.

Hollywood Power Couples

Get a closer look at some of Hollywood&#39;s perfect pairs.

"The Gentlemen" and "Slow Horses" return this fall, while the "Reacher" spin-off series "Neagley" makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

2026 Fall TV and Streaming Watch Guide

&quot;The Gentlemen&quot; and &quot;Slow Horses&quot; return this fall, while the &quot;Reacher&quot; spin-off series &quot;Neagley&quot; makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

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Sir Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton is a British racing driver competing in Formula One for Ferrari. In Formula One, Hamilton has won a joint-record seven World Drivers' Championship titles (tied with Michael Schumacher), and holds the records for the most wins (103), pole positions (103), and podium finishes (184), among others. He is the only black driver in Formula One history.

Born and raised in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, Hamilton joined the McLaren young driver programme in 1998. This led to a Formula One drive with McLaren from 2007 to 2012, making Hamilton the first, and so far only, black driver to race in the series. In his inaugural season, Hamilton set numerous records as he finished runner-up to Kimi Räikkönen by one point. The following season, he won his maiden title in dramatic fashion making a crucial overtake on the last lap of the last race of the season to become the the youngest Formula One World Champion in history. After six years with McLaren, Hamilton signed with Mercedes in 2013.

Changes to the regulations for 2014 mandating the use of turbo-hybrid engines saw the start of a highly successful period for Hamilton, during which he has won six further drivers' titles. Consecutive titles came in 2014 and 2015 during an intense rivalry with teammate Nico Rosberg. Following Rosberg's retirement, Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel became Hamilton's closest rival in two intense championship battles, in which Hamilton twice overturned mid-season point deficits to claim consecutive titles again in 2017 and 2018. His third and fourth consecutive titles followed in 2019 and 2020 to equal Schumacher's record of seven drivers' titles.

In December 2020, Hamilton confronted the Bahrain's human rights abuses and spoke out on the allegations of sportswashing. Hamilton said he "won't let it go unnoticed" after an 11-year-old boy, Ahmed Ramadhan, wrote a letter to Hamilton, asking him to save his father, who was facing the death penalty, after a confession was allegedly extracted through torture for the death of a policeman.

Hamilton's contribution and influence has been recognised regularly in the Powerlist, an annual list of the most influential Black Britons, in which he has ranked in the top 10 in 2016 and 2017. In 2021, Hamilton was named the most influential Black Briton in the 14th Powerlist, for his sporting success and his advocacy in the Black Lives Matter movement. In 2020, he was listed as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people globally, and was knighted in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to motorsports.

He is a absolute Legend in Formula One history and in a entire World.

Lewis Hamilton at an event for Minions (2015)

Like everyone, I&#39;ve grown up adoring the Royal Family.

[2021] I&#39;m glad I went to the toilet [at Spa Francorchamps]. The one I went to, someone had dropped a crazy bomb in there. The worst thing ever. It&#39;s going to haunt me for life.

[Describe yourself in 3 words.] Meticulous, perfectionist, creative.

[If you weren&#39;t a Formula 1 driver, what would you want to do instead?] I mean, a dream role would have been to be in a band, because I love music, I love creating.

I&#39;m not afraid of onions, I just hate onions. Particularly raw onions. I don&#39;t mind if it&#39;s cooked in a soup or something like that. Onions and chives just remind me of BO, when you are around someone who has the worst BO and you wanna get away from them.

When I was young I was shy to a certain extent, but I have never been scared of doing anything exciting. I haven&#39;t jumped out of aeroplanes and stuff like that but I will do that at some point. I am really at liberty to say some of the things I have done but I am pretty relaxed by nature but I hate spiders. A lot of people have that sort of phobia.

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Lewis Hamilton

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