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Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton MBE (born 7 January 1985) is a British racing driver who races in Formula One for the Mercedes AMG Petronas team. A three-time Formula One World Champion, he is often considered the best driver of his generation and widely regarded as one of the greatest Formula One drivers in the history of the sport. He won his first World Championship title with McLaren in 2008 before moving to Mercedes, where he won back-to-back titles in 2014 and 2015. Hamilton has more race victories than any other British driver in the history of Formula One (58), and holds records for the all-time most career points (2,460), the most wins at different circuits (24), the joint-most podium finishes in a season (17), as well as achieving the joint-most all time pole positions (68). Hamilton is also the only driver to have won at least one Grand Prix in every season he has competed in. Wikipedia