Just the first of many for Hamilton

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On 19 March, 2007 a certain Lewis Hamilton made his début in Formula One and made it all the way onto the podium for the first time by coming third in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne. Joining him on the podium was his McLaren team mate Fernando Alonso and race winner Kimi Raikkonen, who would go on to clinch that year's title with Ferrari by just a single point from Lewis. Flash forward to 2015 and Lewis now has two championships, 38 wins and 79 podiums to his name from a total of 158 starts in Formula One, so you can forgive him if he doesn't quite look as fresh faced as he did eight and a half years ago.