Growing Up

1. When he was just ten, Lewis said to the head of McLaren that he wanted to race for them one day - how right he was!
2. Lewis actually signed for McLaren with their Young Driver Support Programme.
3. Before his teenage years, Lewis enjoyed racing radio-controlled cars. He was so good that he would beat adults and won a number of club championships.
4. Lewis was sadly bullied at school when he was very young, but took at Karate so he could defend himself!
5. Lewis has three Blue Peter badges - his first appearance on the show was aged just six as a radio-controlled car driver!
6. On the show, John Leslie asked him if driving the radio-controlled cars was easy. “No”, said Lewis.
7. When asked what his favourite sport was at school, Lewis said it was football one day, basketball the next and running the day after - he was always changing his mind!
8. His first crash in karting was at Rye House during a practice session. Lewis got clipped by another driver and crashed into the tyre wall. His kart was badly damaged - and he walked away with a bleeding nose!
9. Lewis has said that if he was not in motorsport he would love to have been in a band - he set up a band when he was younger, and actually still plays the guitar.
10. Lewis’s first ever car was a mini.