His garage was worth millions, but Lewis Hamilton has sold all his four-wheeled vehicles and now prefers to collect valuable art.
On Thursday in Baku, the seven-time Formula 1 world champion was asked if he was interested in buying the Ferrari F80, Scuderia’s new flagship super sports model. His answer will certainly come as a surprise to many fans: “I don’t have any cars anymore. I don’t have any cars, I sold them all. These days, I’m more interested in art. If I were to get a car, it would be an F40. But that’s a work of art anyway.”
Hamilton’s garage was a topic of conversation for many years, filled with rare, expensive high-performance vehicles. From hypercars to classics to special editions, the former Mercedes driver seemed to own everything. However, according to his latest statements, his passion for collecting cars has waned significantly. Before he sold his collection, he was known to have vehicles with an estimated total value of around €15 million in his private garages in Monaco and Los Angeles.
Hamilton’s former car collection:
Pagani Zonda 760 LH
Mercedes-AMG One
Mercedes-AMG SLS Black Series
Mercedes-AMG GT R (Spec Safety Car)
Mercedes-AMG G 63 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)
Mini Cooper
Mercedes EQC
Hamilton’s Pagani Zonda alone is said to have been worth several million. The vehicle was involved in two accidents. In 2015, it sustained (admittedly sinfully expensive) parking damage in Monaco, which Hamilton himself had caused. In 2023, the new owner crashed into a tunnel wall, causing considerably more damage.
Although Hamilton is best known for his performances on four wheels, he prefers to ride motorcycles in his private life. He was recently spotted at the Monaco Grand Prix and the Italian Grand Prix on a Ducati Panigale V4 S, painted in the Italian tricolor. He also regularly rides his MV Agusta F4 LH44, a strictly limited special edition model developed in collaboration with the Italian manufacturer.
But if Hamilton is to be believed, he would still make room in his garage for a Ferrari F40, one of his new employer’s most famous and coveted sports cars.
“One thing I definitely want to do is design a Ferrari myself,” he revealed at the start of the season. “I want to develop an F44. Based on an F40, with a real manual transmission. I’ll be working on that over the next few years.”