From playing his father’s gifted radio-controlled car to owning “something like 15 cars”, Lewis Hamilton has come a long way. The boy from Stevenage was indulged in cars since his childhood. Lewis Hamilton jokes about an anecdote, where his Mercedes C-200 helped him and his friends when they were younger.
The Mercedes man has never been short of confidence. In fact, a young Lewis went on and told McLaren boss Ron Dennis that he was going to race for him someday. That promise came to fruition in 2007 when Lewis raced for them and narrowly missed out on the title.
In an old interview, Lewis stated about his teenage experiences in the $44k worth Mercedes C-200. “It went down very well with the ladies! Me and my boys couldn’t get into clubs because we looked underage, but once we started rolling up in the C-class we were straight in!”