It Cannot Be Denied, Lewis Hamilton IS An All-Time Great
Lewis Hamilton in a McLaren Mercedes at the 2011 Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne How many people have won five Formula One World Championships? The answer is three; Argentina's Juan Manuel Fangio in the 1950's, German record-holder Michael Schumacher (who ended up with seven) and now Britain's very own Lewis Hamilton. Only two other men have reached a fourth title, namely Frenchman Alain Prost and Hamilton's current title rival Sebastian Vettel. For some reason Lewis Hamilton is polarising, but you absolutely cannot now say he is not one of the greatest F1 drivers of all time. When compiling lists of the greatest ever the names of Fangio, Schumacher and Prost are usually up there alongside the mercurial Ayrton Senna. Senna's death in the third race of the 1994 season left him on three titles, and when Michael Schumacher won the title (his first) later that year he admitted that he always thought that 1994 would be Senna's 4th championship. Had he lived,...