In 2007, Lewis Hamilton debuted as part of McLaren. The debut season, the Briton spent on the car at number "2".
In 2007, the McLaren pilot became Fernando Alonso, which passed from Renault. As a current champion, the Spaniard received the right to perform the car with the champion "one". Accordingly, his partner was supposed to get behind the wheel of the machine with the starting number "2". That's just a partner Fernando not chosen immediately.
When Ron Dennis signed a contract with Alonso at the end of 2005, it was implied that his partner would become Kimi Raikkonen. However, at the end of 2006, Finn moved to Ferrari. The candidacy of the reserve pilot Pedro de la Dew, who spoke in several races, replacing the dismissed Juan-Pablo Montuyu, but from the point of view of marketing the team did not really want to have two Spaniards. And then Dennis invited his protege tests to Lewis Hamilton, who won the title GP2. The first kilometers passed by the future six-time champion did not leave doubts about who should become partner Alonso.
In the debut race Lewis started the fourth, at some point he even walked ahead of Fernando, but in the end I missed him and finished the third. In the second race, Hamilton came second, losing only the partner by McLaren. And already in the third race finished two seconds from the winner, while the ahead of Alonso. In the fourth race, the young Briton finished again and became the leader of the championship! And then there were two victories in Canada and the United States.
Lewis Hamilton, McLaren Mercedes MP4-22, Canada Grand Prix
In the first nine races, Hamilton finished consistently on the podium - an unprecedented result for the debutants of Formula 1. Lewis scored 70 points and Agel Alonso for 12 points, Raikkonena - at 18. But then intrigues, pilot conflicts, Lewis Father's intervention in McLaren's business, spyware with the transfer of secret information by Ferrari employee.
In the next six races, Hamilton rose three times to the podium: won in Hungary and Japan and came second to Italy. The gap from rivals remained the same: 12 points from Alonso and 17 points from Raikkonen. In the remaining two races, Lewis was enough to finish the fifth twice that, given the force of McLaren, it was not so difficult.
But in China, Hamilton was mistaken at arrival in the boxes and stuck in the gravel trap. And in Brazil, he tried to win the race in the first turn, she slipped on the side of the road, because of which the electronics of the car went to the reboot, taking a lot of time, and Lewis finished only on the seventh. Both races won Raikkonen and became a champion, ahead of the debutant just one point.
Before the start of the 2008 season, Alonso was fired from McLaren, after which Hamilton still became a champion, although in the final race he again did not lose his title again.
The results of the season for Lewis Hamilton: 17 starts, 12 podiums, 4 victories, 6 pole positions, 2 best circles, 109 points, 2 place in the championship.
