By Frank Worall
LEWIS HAMILTON is the record-breaking younger British hero of formulation One. His extraordinary debut season was once not anything wanting a revelation, coming via opposed to all of the odds to dominate and revolutionise the realm of motor racing.
It was once an end result not anyone may have estimated: thrown in on the deep finish 'on a amazing whim' by means of McLaren workforce proprietor Ron Dennis, not just did Lewis need to strive against his personal nerves and fears, he needed to conquer a dissenter inside his personal camp.
With behind-the-scenes perception into the serious competition among Hamilton and his teammate Fernando Alonso which threatened to derail the younger Briton's dream, and the low-down at the 'spy-gate' scandal, this biography describes how Lewis dealt with the depth of the media scrum round his dating with Nicole Scherzinger and saved his dignity to emerge successful as he racked up sensational wins all over the world. Now he has even joined iconic speedsters Damon Hill and Bradley Wiggins as a BBC activities character of the yr winner.
From his momentous clinching of the 2014 international Championship in Abu Dhabi to the sour competition with former buddy Nico Rosberg – which culminated within the German engineering a planned high-speed crash – bestselling activities writer Frank Worrall lines the slipstream of Hamilton's really good profession because the quickest motive force at the planet.
This is the last word tale of the motive force who Sir Jackie Stewart says 'has rewritten the rookie rule book'. yet he's a rookie not more. Lewis Hamilton has sped up into pole place to be referred to as Britain's maximum ever race driver.
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