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Date of Birth: January 7, 1985
Nationality: British
Racing for: McLaren Mercedes team
Claim to fame: Youngest ever Formula One World Champion
| Formula One World Championship career | |
| 2008 team | |
| 2008 car # | 22 |
| 2009 team | |
| Races | 35 |
| 1 (2008) | |
| Wins | 9 |
| Podium finishes | 22 |
| Career points | 207 |
| 13 | |
| 3 | |
| First race | |
| First win | |
| Last win | |
| Last race | |
| 2008 position | 1st (98 points) |
Named after the American sprinter Carl Lewis, he famously approached McLaren team principal, Ron Dennis, at an awards ceremony and told him "I want to race for you one day". He was only 10 Years old when he made that bold remark. Less than three years later, he was signed by McLaren and Mercedes-Benz to their Young Driver Support Programme.
He won the British Formula Renault, European Formula Three and GP2 championship and became a McLaren F1 driver in 2007. Coming from a mixed race background, with a black father and white mother,
In his first season in Formula One,
Records
§ Most consecutive podiums from debut race: 9 – Australian GP 2007 – British GP 2007 (previous record was by Peter Arundell – Monaco GP 1964 – Dutch GP 1964)
§ Most consecutive podiums for a British driver: 9 – Australian GP 2007 – British GP 2007 (tied with Jim Clark – Belgian GP 1963 – South African GP 1963)
§ Youngest driver to lead the World Championship: 22 years, 4 months, 8 days – at the Bahrain GP 2007 (Previous record was 23 years, 7 months, 22 days by Fernando Alonso at the Malaysian GP 2005)
§ Most wins in a debut season: 4, Canadian, USA, Hungarian and Japanese GPs 2007 (equalling Jacques Villeneuve, European, British,Hungarian and Portuguese GPs 1996)
§ Most pole positions in a debut season: 6, Canadian, USA, British, Hungarian, Japanese and Chinese GPs 2007 (Previous record was 3 held jointly by Jacques Villeneuve (1996) and Juan Pablo Montoya (2001))
§ Youngest F1 World Champion (2008 season) 23 years, 8 months, 26 days, previously held by Fernando Alonso with 24 years and 58 days.
Career summary
| Season | Series | Team Name | No. | Races | Poles | Wins | Pts | Final Placing |
| 2000 | TeamMBM.com (CRG/Parilla) | | 1 | | 0 | n/a | DNF | |
| TeamMBM.com (CRG/Parilla) | | 9 | | 5 | 75 | 1st | ||
| TeamMBM.com (CRG/Parilla) | | 1 | | 1 | n/a | 1st | ||
| 2001 | Formula Super A World Championship | TeamMBM.com (Parolin/Parilla) | 15 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 15th |
| 2002 | 25 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 274 | 3rd | ||
| 2003 | Formula Renault | Manor Motorsport | 3 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 419 | 1st |
| Manor Motorsport | 35 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 69 | 5th | ||
| Formula 3 Euroseries | 6 | 20 | 11 | 15 | 172 | 1st | ||
| 2 | 21 | 1 | 5 | 114 | 1st | |||
| 2 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 109 | 2nd | |||
| Formula One | Vodafone McLaren Mercedes | 22 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 98 | 1st |
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