My man is now a 6 time champ, gonna collect his 7th this year. A living legend

The control is sublime. He is the one

93 wins 7 world championships 97 poles who can doubt this blokes talent the best ever

this dude is now a 5 times world champ

Well said. Hamilton will be champion this year. Its good for the sport that someone from his kind of background is winning races in F1. He wasn't the richest as a kid but he was the best. He persevered through the tough times. Give him credit. Lewis Hamilton=Legend.

i'm not a Hamilton fan, but that was just amazing. you have to admit the guy is really a racer and a very determined one at that!

WOW! that was really exciting! i'll check out karting more often... That boy Hamilton is a real talent, he was driving amazingly for a 13 year old!!

Monaco was my favorite of the '08 season. Hammy completely outclassed the rest of the herd in that race. The guy is a monster in bad weather.

Lewis is just soooooo Amazing!!

he's a great driver. no matter what people say about him as a person, no-one can deny his car control!

Simply amazing what this kid has achieved and will g po on to achieve 👏

He achieved the highest level last november.

runner up f1 2007 in his first year, winner of the wdc in his second attempt f1, he is the best

Hamilton is No1 Enough said

he is talent!

shame lewis doesn't have a good car this year at mclaren, he sooooo good and always makes the races interesting

This is a good video thanks OP, HAMILTON FOR 2008 WDC and Mclaren for WCC. Bad Blood and F2008 Blow-ups !!!!

I used to race them....The class was known as Junior Intercontinental A aka J.I.C.A. they were 100cc engines with a centrifugal clutch......Larkhall was one of my favourite tracks....obviously behind nutts corner, the one and only!!!

Great video - thanks for posting it. Incredible wet weather driving by everyone in this video in some pretty awful conditions! I have a few Lewis Karting videos on my channel if you want to check them out.

Very cool. It's nice to see where these guys started.

GOGOGOGOG LEWIS!!!

Amazing talent! - My admiration keeps on growing. I still can hardly believe he's british!! We're meant to be rubbish at sport ... it's tradition lol.

Incredible! Very entertaining

Não tem explicação, e talento puro dado por Deus...

6-time Formula 1 champion now, and counting...

lewis is a great pilot. It´s the best in a very good generation of drivers like Alonso and Raikkonen. I don´t think schumacher had as good oponents as hamilton.

Nr 44 is also dominating F1 season 2014 :)

How cool is Go Karting!

lol great vid this...!!! amazing that this track is only 10 miles up the road from me..must try get up to see what it's like these days

A ninja of the steering wheel...always was.

Legendary Lewis Hamilton 6×F1 WDC!

yesterday a kart racer, today a world-formula1 champion in 2009 :)

Do I smell jealousy in here?? Ah ! I do.

man i love racing karts its a shame though im not quite at that level though :p but still awesome vid and ya the cadet would be so awesome :D thx and ya it is a shame that most never catch a break.

Hauahuahuah... "Hero: Ayrton Senna"... Novidade... Hamilton manda bem demais... Humilde e bom vencedor... Torço pr´ele, por todos os aspectos...!!! Let´s go Lewis Fuckin´ Hamilton...!!!

For anyone that has said Lewis' success in F1 is pretty much all down to his car...did you just watch the above video?? Everyone was basically in the same cart and he destroyed the opposition starting in 3rd and racing in tricky conditions.

15 seconds are a world!

What cc are these karts? And how fast do they go ?

@Trondheim18 you have to start by finding your nearest go kart circuit and see what kart classes there is. then you buy a kart and engine, practice with it, then do your arks test. then your ready to race

Just a genius

Lewis Hamilton is using a helmet inspired by the great Ayrton Senna's helmet. Looks great, and its awsome to see the yellow helmet leading races again ! lol

@peterasimpson Not sure about Fraser Sheader or Russell, but Alex Lloyd was 4th in Indycar in 2010, and previously tested an F1 car in 2004 :)

He actually beat Lewis to the championship that year. Think he went on racing karts at international level then disappeared off the scene!

i hope hamilton races tomorrow, he needs the points :s excellent vid.

Lewis Hamilton rule!

was he racing a 100cc here? i used to race with my school and we went to spectate at larkhall in 86, ad love to get back into my dap

Honestly I'm a go karter I mostly do indoor karting but on the odd occasion I have done outdoor but honestly even an indoor track if it's damp I can't handle it so it amazes me how they drive so skilfully outside when it's chucking it down (I'm good when it's dry though)

thank you someone talking some sense !

Lol the announcer says " perhaps thats what he signaled, I'm gonna go off on the next corner" lmao .

Who would of known they were looking at F1's all time Championship leader... With 8 World Championships and counting...

how they drive in the wet but racing on the dry line?

@Trondheim18 most places you need to be a member, and its just a matter of signing paper work for insurance and licenses. and after all that you still need a go kart, fuel, spare parts, a trailer, and a few dollars to go and use it. go karting is really fun but is very expesnive aswell

talent

@kingofpop1569 Dude...Probably this is why Alonso fled from McLaren after just 1 yr as He probably expected Lewis to let him through like Massa did in Germany '10... Even Ron Dennis couldn't refrain from saying that "Alonso calculated everything but not that Hamilton could compete with him" in a recent chat alongside Bernie Ecclestone...

Just tell me the time and the place. I will really enjoy this :)

how do you save this video?

Lewis is the best racing driver on the planet! wooop

Lewis Hamilton: 27 Races - 8 Wins 18 times on the podium

Usually people go from karting to "lower end" formulae racing (regional formulas/formula 3 etc) and now there is the GP2 series which serves as a feeder for formula 1

Nice racing...

looks so much older now!

hes sucha sick driver

His father worked 2 or 3 jobs for the early years, but I think when Lewis was in his teens his father established a software company or something like that. So it was later on that the Hamiltons became wealthy. I don't know all the details, as you can tell. Try Wikipedia maybe? There might be some info there.

Mclaren + Ron Dennis + Hamilton = RIDICULOUS CHAMPIONSHIP!!! Alonso & Kimi the best drivers in the actual F1 xDDDD

How many laps are in one of these races?

great commentator

Lewis you and your PADRINO-GOODFATHER-Ron Dennis are invited tonight in Spain, to the Alonso's supporter FIESTA tribute to kimi and Ferrari fans. We will happy to see your face in our party. jojjojojojjojo Some day you will win. But today was a DIVINE JUSTICE DAY! Grazie Alonso!

Its amazing that Fittibaldi`s record of youngest champion standed over 20 years. Then during 4 years that record will be broken three times, provided that Vettel is champion 2009.

Moss was right one of the best drivers in the history of motoracing

the chance makeing risk takeing over takering titan of the wet lewis hamlton

what engines are these?

i've always though Lewis' helmet resembled Senna's. Maybe some king of homage? Anyways, there is nothing greater than kart racing in the wet!!!

it seems like lewis loved the rain since he started driving

Keep the comments clean please chaps. Got some more of these Lewis karting vids still to come, so keep your eyes peeled.

He's doing better and better, lap after lap. Prost had the same approach and won 51 GPs. Hamilton is a fan of Senna, so he's just to be inspired by Senna and Prost's talents and kick all the other's butt (well, Prost may smile if he reads that...).

The boy knows how to drive !!!!

who is this dude! ive never herd of him before???

that's because you haven't seen so much drivers i think. but he's very very good indeed

Schumacher nearly made it in 2006 to catch Alonso from a huge lead. Maybe we'll have another great season like 2006 with Vettel catching up to Button race by race.

You have good point. Schumacher metaphor was good, but I never said anything like that :) Every F1 driver is diamond. Have to be talented, hard working and lucky to ever drive that car. Villeneuve was good driver, actually very good and really professional. He is champion and I dont want to underestimate that, But was he sensational? My opinion is no. Same thing about Hamilton (so far). Margins between F1 guys are very small and really sensational drivers are very unusual.

You're right, I miss Reading it ;) Sorry.

i dont wanna say like... "hey im the best!" but my family is rich to. i love go karting an overtake with rent karts racing go karts on the track. my cousin drove racing karts for 1 year now. i never drove one. i visited him and he wanted me to battle him in a time race. i won by 1,42 seconds ahead of him. i want to start go karting realy bad but my parents are scared or dont like motor sports ;( and i hate them for that, that they dont support me and my talent

Dont be so sure. It will be huge battle between Brawn, Toyota and Red Bull. I think Brawn car is best at the moment, but can they improve as fast as Red Bull? I don`t know, but Red Bul has very good car considering that they dont have diffuser or kers...

i think he has all it takes 2 be a great champion like prost schumi or even senna. but let him win a couple of championships in f1 before i say he's the best tough

agree

u seem to forget that lh was faster then alonso a lot of times and they both had the same car

It was the FIA president Max Wosley, who clearly pointed out that thanks to Alonso, Ron Dennis was forced to hand in the evidence he had which led to the punishment. The British media decided not to give any emphasis on this and blame the Alonso e-mail instead!

simplemente el mejor .... aunque todos te quieran ver destruidos eres el justo ganador

by now number two...

how do they have THAT much grip in the rain?

Go HAmiltonnnnnnnnnnnnnnn !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I bet you everyone racing here tells everyone now "Guess what i raced against Lewis Hamilton, he was quite good". Lol

start by finding a track and then getting a kart together... anyone can get into karting, you don't have to be young, but it helps since as an adult you'd be twice as heavy-

Next Shumaher for sure

dude he did better than alonso in his first year when they had the SAME car

fantastic comment man thumbs up thats the same thing iam saying about hamilton

i stay near larkhall whoooo

yeah hamilton great job

Where was the crane last Sunday?

Bit harsh mate. Look at the conditions, keeping your kart on the track and competitive is a skill in itself. And remember he had to take 1st place before the other guy went off.