ARISE, SIR LEWIS
No one has won more consecutive races than Ascari or Sebastian Vettel (nine each). Vettel won three world titles before the age of 26; the next youngest is Hamilton, aged 30. So it goes with statistics … and we haven’t even mentioned the late Ayrton Senna, a three-time world champion who died at age 34 but whom many regard as the greatest racing driver to have ever graced an F1 cockpit.
Hamilton was just nine when Senna was killed in 1994 at Imola, but he has never hidden his feelings and respect for the Brazilian, who has been an inspiration to him. In many ways, the British driver is cut from the same cloth as Senna: a natural
