Lewis Hamilton Can Build Upon 2014 Championship Win to Dominate Formula 1

The King is dead, long live the King. After a four-year period which had seen Sebastian Vettel conquer all before him, the throne, the No. 1 car and all the glory that comes with it has been inherited by Lewis Hamilton, who secured his second world championship with victory in Sunday's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. In the days prior to the race at the Yas Marina circuit, the British driver had walked around the paddock with a target on his back. He was a wanted man, with the pre-race focus primarily on how Hamilton—the leader of the drivers' standings by 17 points, lest we forget—could prevent Nico Rosberg, his Mercedes team-mate and title rival, from taking the crown, rather than on how the British driver himself could clinch it. Requ...

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