LEWIS HAMILTON has revealed he sold his ENTIRE car collection to focus on his new passion of art.
The seven-time world champion once owned a megabucks 15-car haul of limited edition Ferraris, Mercedes and McLarens.
APLewis Hamilton has sold his entire car collection to focus on his passion for art[/caption]
InstagramHamilton used to have a huge collection of luxury cars[/caption]
InstagramThe Brit was never a stranger to flexing his vehicles[/caption]
The jaw-dropping collection was estimated to be worth around £13million and kept in private garages in Monaco and Los Angeles.
The bombshell news came after the British 40-year-old was asked during his media session ahead of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix if he would like to buy Ferrari’s latest flagship supercar, the F80.
He said: “I don’t have any cars anymore. I don’t have any cars, so I got rid of all my cars. I’m more into art nowadays.”
Hamilton still has a special place in his heart for his favourite Ferrari – the legendary F40.
He added: “If I was going to get a car, it would be the F40. But that’s a nice piece of art.”
Hamilton was pictured posing next to an F40 outside of Enzo Ferrari’s house during his first visit to Ferrari’s Maranello at the end of January.
He is often seen riding motorcycles now at race weekends, including at Monaco and the Italian Grand Prix this season.
He rode a Ducati Panigale V4 S superbike, dressed in the Italian tricolore livery.
Instagram / @lewishamiltonThe Ferrari driver had some classic cars in his collection[/caption]
Shutterstock EditorialHamilton can be seen on a motorbike these days[/caption]
Lewis Hamilton’s car collection
Here’s a look at some of that Hamilton previously owned…
Pagani Zonda 760 LH
Mercedes-AMG Project One
Mercedes-AMG SLS Black Series
Mercedes-AMG GT R (ex-F1 safety car spec)
Mercedes-AMG G63 6×6
Mercedes-Maybach S600
Ferrari LaFerrari
Ferrari LaFerrari Aperta
Ferrari 599 SA Aperta
1966 Shelby Cobra 427
1967 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 (“Eleanor” replica)
McLaren P1
1995 McLaren F1 (chassis 044 per reports)
Mini Cooper
Mercedes EQC
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Earlier on in the season, Hamilton revealed his dream of one day designing his own Ferrari road car.
He said: “One of the things I really want to do is to design a Ferrari. I want to do an F44,
“Baseline of an F40, with the actual stick shift. That’s what I’m gonna work on for the next few years.”
Hamilton arrives in Baku feeling “optimistic” he can end his streak without a podium finish before the end of his first season with Ferrari.
He added: “A win is a bit far-fetched considering I’ve been sixth, seventh and eighth for most of the season,
“I would love to get a podium for the team at some stage, Charles has had five of them.
“I feel optimistic coming into the weekend. I feel like I’ve found a couple of things and now I need to work on extracting them. So I really hope that this weekend can be the start of that.”
Meanwhile, Lando Norris has hit out at critics of McLaren’s ol’ switcheroo chaos in Monza.
A slow pit-stop for the Brit saw Oscar Piastri undercut him before being told by his team to give the place back.
It trimmed Norris’ gap to Piastri in the driver’s standings to 31 points and the Brit did not mince his words when he was asked about the negativity.
When asked if the reaction surprised him, Norris replied: “Not in the world that we live in nowadays, because that’s all people want to do, you know, is be negative and talk badly about others.
“It also doesn’t affect us as a team. It’s what you expect nowadays, and I think in the world that we live in, it’s more negativity than ever positivity.
“We continue to do things our way, whether people agree with it or not. It’s not our problem, and we don’t really care about that, so we’re happy. We focus on ourselves.”
