May 20, 2015 – The Mercedes AMG Formula 1 team anonuced that it has finalised a new contract with 2008 and 2014 World Champion Lewis Hamilton for the 2016 to 2018 Formula One seasons inclusive.
Since making his Formula One debut with McLaren in 2007, Lewis has started every one of his 153 Grands Prix with Mercedes-Benz power and this track record includes 36 victories, of which 15 so far were at the wheel of a works Silver Arrow.
Lewis joined Mercedes AMG in 2013, winning his first race for the Silver Arrows in Hungary that year. In 2014, he claimed 11 race wins on his way to securing his second Formula One World Championship; this title saw him become the first driver since Juan Manuel Fangio to win the World Championship in a works Mercedes-Benz.