The world watched on Sunday afternoon & the people of Britain finally saw Lewis Hamilton clinch his second Formula One World Championship to put him up there with the greats of British Motorsport & F1 itself. What this victory means for Lewis is years of wondering whether it was worth all the hype back in 2007 when he first arrived on the scene as McLaren’s new protege in a year when he amazed everyone in the sport & even people who didn’t watch the sport as a whole where amazed by this young man’s talent, he would go on to just miss out on that years title. Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen won six races to Hamilton’s four. 2008 proved to be Lewis’s year as he won not only the Monaco GP but his home race the British GP these wins would be vital as he would go on to win the Championship against another Ferrari driver

Felipe Massa but it wasn’t plain sailing as Hamilton fell out of position but on the last lap regained fifth place which was enough to give him the title by one point. Since then Lewis has at times been in the F1 wilderness always winning but just not being able to come up with another challenge for title. Some questioned his commitment to the sport & some thought that the fame had got to him, over the course of those years his performances on track weren’t great at times as he was being beaten by then McLaren teammate Jenson Button more than once. As 2012 arrived it was also the year that Hamilton’s contract with the Woking based team would be up when the season reached the halfway point the speculation was rife that Lewis would leave the team at the end of season & more talk emerged that Mercedes wanted him. The rumours where true & On the 28th September 2012 Lewis stunned the world of F1 by announcing he wouldn’t be staying with McLaren & signed with Mercedes for three years even I will admit I was shocked His first year with Mercedes proved at times difficult with settling in to a new environment but he helped the team to finish an all important second behind Red Bull, he also secured one victory at Hungary. As we headed into this year Hamilton was a big favourite as the new V6 1.6 litre turbo engines also came into the sport word was that the Mercedes engine was the top one but we weren’t sure until we saw the cars in testing but once we saw it Mercedes were the out & out the fastest cars. Once the Grand Prix circus started it was proved that Mercedes where on a completely different level to everyone with Hamilton & teammate Nico Rosberg heading the first row. We knew that those two would be the main contenders for the win, one of the earliest races of the season at Bahrain, was as a fan one of the best if not the best race I had seen ever with Hamilton winning the titanic tussle. Throughout the season we saw great moments between Hamilton & Rosberg for me the defining ones minus Bahrain would be Monaco when Rosberg got pole in less than clean circumstances & won the race only for Hamilton to react & say to the media that they weren’t friends. another moment would have been the British GP at Silversotne which I had the pleasure of being at when Lewis missed out on pole & ended up sixth, but during the race he climbed up to second within the first few laps & won the race through his teammate having a problem, other big races where Hungary when Hamilton was ordered by his team to let Nico through,he didn’t oblige! followed by an incident at Spa when they both collided & Lewis suffered a puncture & retired from the race. As we headed to the finale in Abu Dubai Lewis was ahead after five wins on 17 points with Rosberg’s one win, the race also had double points to add spice. Hamilton went into the race second on the grid to Rosberg as the Merc’s locked out the front row again. When the race started Lewis shot straight into the lead ahead of Nico & led the whole race it got even better with Nico suffering brake problems & falling back down the order, the Williams of Massa was slowly catching Lewis but he held on to win the race & the championship for the second time. It was spectacular, only the second Brit to do this since 1971. Let’s hope that this tile win for Lewis is the first of many & let’s hope that we see a domination similar to that of Michael Schumachers all I will say is roll on 2015.