Lewis Hamilton’s F1 career has been anomalous in so many ways. He arrived in 2007, fast-tracked into the best car on the grid, earmarked as a world champion in waiting, nobody quite knew just how good he was going to be. Now, almost 20 years later, if anyone can bring world championship success back to Ferrari, it’s Lewis Hamilton.
It didn’t take long to see what was on the horizon. The first corner of his first F1 race saw him sweep the reigning double world champion and team-mate Fernando Alonso under the rug with an audacious move around the outside in Melbourne.
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