Lewis Hamilton, who closed the Formula 1 2021 season in a way that no one would want to experience, and missed the championship in the last round, came up with a completely different news today. The successful pilot, who will be on top of all eyes in the Formula 1 2022 season, which will start this week, announced that he will change his name.
The seven-time world champion Formula 1 driver’s parents divorced when he was just a child. Expressing that he did not understand why women lost their surname after marriage, the pilot announced that he would add his mother’s surname, ‘Larbalestier’, as a middle name.
His new name will be Lewis Larbalestier Hamilton
In a statement about his decision to take his mother’s surname as a middle name, Hamilton said, “I am proud of my family name. My mother’s last name is Larbalestier; and I will add that to my name. I want his name to go along with Hamilton.” used the expressions.
Hamilton stated that he is still working on the name change, so this change will not be official at Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix. The pilot, who was knighted in the UK last summer, attended the ceremony with his mother, Carmen.