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Domination at Mercedes

Hamilton dominated the F1 season in 2014, winning a career-high 11 races to capture his second drivers’ championship. He was just as dominant in 2015, when he won his third drivers’ championship one month before the season ended. In both seasons Hamilton’s performance, combined with that of teammate Nico Rosberg, enabled Mercedes to win the F1 constructor’s championship.

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Rosberg and Mercedes took their respective titles in 2016, with Hamilton finishing second in the drivers’ standings behind his teammate. The following year Hamilton won nine races en route to his fourth drivers’ championship. He won another drivers’ championship in 2018, bringing his career tally to five and tying Juan Manuel Fangio for the second highest championship total in F1 history.

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F1 championEnglish racing driver Lewis Hamilton celebrates after clinching his seventh Formula One World Drivers' Championship at the Turkish Grand Prix in Istanbul, Turkey, on November 15, 2020.(more)

In 2019 Hamilton claimed his sixth drivers’ championship, placing him one title behind Michael Schumacher. Hamilton tied Schumacher’s mark with his seventh championship in 2020, and he also broke Schumacher’s record for most career F1 race victories (91).

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