News Details

Hamilton awarded knighthood in New Year honours list

Lewis Hamilton has been awarded a knighthood in the 2021 New Year honours list published on Wednesday evening. In 2020, Hamilton became statistically the most successful Formula 1 driver of all time, surpassing Michael Schumacher's long-held record of 91 grand prix wins and 155 podium finishes and equalling the German's haul of seven world titles. Article continues under video Hamilton's totals now stand at 95 victories with 165 podiums. Only three drivers have previously been knighted by the Queen with Sir Jack Brabham being honoured in 1979, Sir Stirling Moss in 2000, and Sir Jackie Stewart most recently one-year later in 2001. With the trio receiving their titles after retiring from F1,...
Full Story »
5y ago from GPFans.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Lewis Hamilton Awarded Knighthood After Winning 7th F1...

Lewis Hamilton has been awarded a knighthood in the New Year’s Honours...
5y ago from Formula1News.co.uk

Hamilton in line for knighthood as PM bends rules

Arise Sir Lewis! Seven-time F1 world champion is to be awarded a...
5y ago from F1i.com

Hamilton set to be knighted in New Year Honours

Seven-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton is set to be knighted...
5y ago from GrandPrix247.com

Arise, Sir Lewis! Hamilton to become F1's sixth knight

Lewis Hamilton has been awarded a knighthood in the New Year’s Honours...
5y ago from PlanetF1.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Alex Palou earns IndyCar pole at Barber

Saturday afternoon at Barber Motorsports Park was devoted to IndyCar...
17h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Will Power’s brake pedal went ‘to the floor’ in...

Will Power suffered a heavy crash in IndyCar qualifying, ending his...
14h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Sources: Why football's 'next superstar' snubbed...

Chelsea and Arsenal registered an interest in the transfer of Nico Paz,...
1h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Latest Arsenal injury news as another Gunners star...

There has been yet another Arsenal player withdrawing from international...
1h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Arsenal favourites to sign 21-year-old German striker...

Arsenal are reportedly in pole position to sign Club Brugge star Nicolo...
3h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Exclusive: Arsenal favourites to sign 'future of...

Arsenal are the favourites for the transfer of talented young German...
4h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.