Grand Prix greats come from all sorts of backgrounds but few started life with the odds stacked against them quite as heavily as Lewis Hamilton. The Briton, who celebrated his second Formula One title with Mercedes on Sunday, grew up in social housing with money tight and his father holding down multiple jobs to fuel his son's progress through karting. The grandson of a Grenadian who had emigrated from the West Indies to find work on the London underground rail system, Hamilton has never forgotten where he comes from even if Mercedes and McLaren spotted his talent early on and bankrolled his progress. Even now, after so much success in one of the most glamorous and expensive sports on the...
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