Mercedes’s world champion begins his quest for a record eighth drivers’ title amid uncertainty about his future in F1
Even before his Formula One debut in 2007 there was a palpable air of something special about Lewis Hamilton. The talent was there, unpolished but impossible to ignore, as was his fierce desire to prove himself. Just how far he has come, however, has exceeded every expectation, including those of that determined young man from Stevenage.
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