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# Video: The mysterious end to Hamilton’s first F1 title bid
- URL: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/video-the-mysterious-end-to-hamiltons-first-f1-title-bid/
- Published: 2021-06-13T16:39:58.000Z
- Updated: 2023-09-16T16:32:11.000Z
- Description: There’s still a degree of mystery and controversy around how Lewis Hamilton lost the 2007 Formula 1 world title in his rookie season with McLaren
- Author: Matt Beer
- Tags: Formula 1, #video, #image-center-center

Lewis Hamilton famously came within one point of winning the Formula 1 world championship as a rookie with McLaren in 2007.

The way that title slipped away from him still has mysterious elements a decade and a half on.

Our video looks back at the controversial and bizarre incidents around the final part of that epic season, and what Hamilton’s subsequently said about it all.