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Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton debuted in Formula 1 with McLaren in 2007 and won the world championship in just his second season, in 2008, becoming the youngest world champion in F1 history at the time. He moved to Mercedes in 2013 and, across the team's dominant hybrid-engine era from 2014 onward, won six more championships. Hamilton's seven career world championships tie Michael Schumacher's record, and his 105 career race wins and 104 pole positions are both the outright all-time records, meaning that by the two most fundamental counting statistics in the sport, he's the most successful F1 driver in history. Hamilton is the only Black driver to compete in Formula 1's modern era, and he's used his platform prominently to push the sport toward greater diversity, founding a commission focused on increasing representation in motorsport and consistently raising the issue in a sport that's historically had very little of it. His 2021 title fight against Max Verstappen, decided on the final lap of the final race of the season under controversial safety-car circumstances, is widely considered one of the most dramatic and contested championship battles in F1 history, and Hamilton's response to narrowly losing it after leading for most of the year only added to how the season is remembered.
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Juan Manuel Fangio
Juan Manuel Fangio won five Formula 1 world championships in the 1950s, driving for four different constructors — Alfa Romeo, Mercedes, Ferrari, and Maserati — a level of success across competing teams that no other driver in F1 history has come close to replicating, since switching manufacturers usually costs a driver competitive continuity. His career winning percentage remains the highest of any driver in F1 history: Fangio won 24 of the 51 championship races he entered, a 47% win rate that dwarfs the win rates of even the sport's other most statistically dominant champions, most of whom competed in far more races across much longer careers. Fangio didn't begin racing in Formula 1 until he was 38 years old, having built his early reputation racing in South America, and won his final championship in 1957 at 46, still the oldest world champion in F1 history — a late-career dominance that stands in sharp contrast to how young most modern champions tend to be. Fangio's reputation for mechanical sympathy and smooth, calculated driving, rather than the more aggressive style that later defined drivers like Senna, made him the standard other 1950s and 1960s drivers measured themselves against, and many older-generation motorsport historians still argue his win percentage alone makes him the greatest F1 driver ever, regardless of era.
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