Lewis Hamilton has endured one of, if not the best career in the history of Formula 1 across a 17-year period. The Brit arrived on the grid with McLaren fresh off the back of a terrific GP2 title-winning campaign in 2006 and hit the ground running immediately. He fell agonisingly short (one point) of achieving a drivers’ championship in his rookie season, but he went on to forge an excellent legacy after that. Hamilton is the only driver to have achieved a century of victories in the sport, and it appears that record could remain for a very long time, with only Max Verstappen within distance o…