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Lewis Hamilton is the reigning Formula 1 World Champion and a driver for Mercedes since 2013. The English driver has won 65 races to date, scored 75 Pole Positions and won four championships in Motorsport's biggest stage.
Hamilton's F1 prowess are spectacular in many ways. He ranks second all-time in wins (behind Michael Schumacher's huge 91 victories). Hamilton holds the record for most Pole Positions in history with his 75 (and counting). In addition to that, his four championships rank third all-time, tied with German Sebastian Vettel and Frenchman Alain Prost, and behind Juan Manuel Fangio's five, and Schumacher's seven.
Regarding race victories, Hamilton has won at least one Grand Prix in each of his twelve seasons in the pinnacle of Motorsport, and only one year he could not earn more than one GP. The Briton's most significant amount of victories in one year was eleven, during his first championship run with Mercedes in 2014 (his second title overall after his 2008 crown with McLaren-Mercedes).
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Hamilton's streak of 12 seasons with at least a victory ranks second all-time, behind Schumacher's fifteen between 1992 and 2006.
Out of Hamilton's 65 wins in F1, let's rank the best three in the Briton's career so far.
#3 2007 Canadian Grand Prix / McLaren-Mercedes
The 2007 Formula 1 season was Hamilton's debut year in the sport with McLaren. After starting the season with five consecutive podiums, but no victories, the sweet moment arrived for the English driver in Montreal, Canada.
Spaniard Fernando Alonso, the reigning two-time World Champion at that time, was Hamilton's teammate, and the Spanish Maestro started the Canadian GP weekend firmly, dominating both practice sessions on Friday.
Hamilton and Alonso were tied in the top of the World Drivers' Championship up to that point with 38 points each.
The 22-year-old Hamilton turned the weekend around on Saturday when he led the third practice session by more than four tenths and went on to dominate in the qualifying to claim pole, with a four-tenths gap over his teammate.
On Sunday, the race was the most eventful Grand Prix of the season, with Alonso repeatedly making mistakes in the first corner of the circuit, and the crash suffered by BMW-Sauber's Polish driver Robert Kubica.
Hamilton cruised to victory in a race where the race director deployed the Safety Car in four different occasions, six cars retired due to crashes, two due to mechanical failures and two disqualified drivers.
With his victory, Hamilton led the championship for the first time in his Formula 1 career; however, his sweet year didn't end in the best possible way, after many issues in the last two races of the year saw him gave up his championship lead to Ferrari's Kimi Räikkönen who eventually won the title in a thriller finale.
#2 2017 Belgian Grand Prix / Mercedes
After three years of Mercedes' dominance in Formula 1, the 2017 season was a straight fight between Ferrari and the Silver Arrows, with the Italian squad having the upper hand in many races, especially during the first half of the campaign.
After eleven races in the year, Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel was leading the championship standings with 202 points, 14 ahead of Hamilton's tally of 188. Both drivers had four wins in that point of the year, but Vettel was more consistent than the Briton.
With a 14-point deficit after the summer break, Hamilton needed a win in Belgium to shorten Vettel's lead and increase his chances of a fourth title.
Hamilton snatched Pole Position from the German driver's hands by a couple of tenths and tied Schumacher's tally of 68, the most in F1 history back then. In race day, Hamilton and Vettel battled for the victory with a close fight, Vettel was able to maintain his Ferrari within two seconds of Hamilton's Mercedes through the first half of the Grand Prix.
With both Sahara Force India cars making contact which led to a Safety Car, Mercedes and Ferrari called its drivers to the pits for a tyre change. With fourteen laps remaining, Mercedes' management elected to put the Pirelli soft compound tyre, while Vettel opted for the Ultrasoft tire, which was the faster choice.
Despite Vettel's tire advantage, Hamilton was able to hold the German off after Vettel made his move into the Kemmel straight and earned the 58th Grand Prix victory of his career, in his 200th race in Formula 1.
Hamilton's win left him just seven points behind Vettel in the championship. After the race, Hamilton embraced the fierce competition by Vettel in the race and felt his championship chances had a boost. The Englishman ended up winning his fourth championship at the end of the season.
#1 2008 British Grand Prix / McLaren-Mercedes
Ranking a driver's Formula 1 best victories depends on certain aspects; the most prominent is context. If a driver had an unbelievable race and it helped him to score points to support a championship effort, his performance gets an extraordinary boost.
Hamilton's second season in Formula 1 did not start like his debut year. After the first five races, although he had a race win in Australia, Hamilton had three podiums and one Grand Prix without scoring points.
His year improved in Monaco after taking an extraordinary win in the rain. The following races to his victory in Monaco were awful, with retirement in Canada and a tenth in France.
In Silverstone, Hamilton's home race, the weekend did not start in the perfect way. His pace in the three practice sessions was not the best, in fact, Hamilton's teammate, Heikki Kovalainen, was ahead of the British driver in the three practice sessions.
On Saturday, Kovalainen scored Pole Position, while Hamilton lined up fourth behind Red Bull Racing's Mark Webber and Ferrari's Kimi Räikkönen.
Hamilton's championship hopes were not perfect at that point. He was fourth in the standings with 38 points, behind Felipe Massa (48 points), Robert Kubica (46), and Räikkönen (43).
During the race, Hamilton managed to move to the second position at Turn 1, then overtook his teammate and imposed his rhythm over the course of the Grand Prix. Hamilton won the race with a 1 minute and eight seconds gap between his McLaren and the next car, Nick Heidfeld's BMW-Sauber.
Hamilton lapped every car outside of the podium and lapped the championship leader twice in the race. The English driver has described his performance in the 2008 British Grand Prix as his greatest race ever.
The 2008 win in Silverstone was Hamilton's first in his home GP in his F1 career. He's won the last four races at Silverstone in a row, all four with Mercedes.
Hamilton finished the 2008 season with his first championship in Formula 1 with a one-point advantage over Massa.
