Lewis Hamilton has an F1 championship.
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 . Lewis Hamilton . He won the World Championship the following season in dramatic fashion , becoming the then-youngest Formula One World Champion in history before Sebastian Vettel broke the record two years later .