British is the nationality of Lewis Hamilton.
2008 Formula One season . Lewis Hamilton won the Drivers ' title by a point -- by overtaking Toyota 's Timo Glock on the final corner of the final lap of the final grand prix of the season to claim the required 5th-place finish -- from Brazilian Felipe Massa while Massa 's teammate , the 2007 world champion , Kimi Räikkönen was ranked third , with two wins . In winning the title , Hamilton became the youngest driver ever to win the title ( a record since supplanted by Sebastian Vettel 's winning of the 2010 Drivers ' title ) and the first black driver to do so . He was also the first British champion since Damon Hill in 1996 . Lewis Hamilton . He won his first title with McLaren in 2008 before moving to Mercedes , where he won back-to-back titles in 2014 and 2015 . In 2015 , he became the first British driver in history to win consecutive F1 titles , and the second British driver to win three titles after Jackie Stewart .