{"id":156536,"date":"2025-09-20T06:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T06:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/156536\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T06:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T06:47:11","slug":"lewis-hamilton-got-rid-of-all-my-cars-as-f1-icon-invests-in-new-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/156536\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton \u2018got rid of all my cars\u2019 as F1 icon invests in new passion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton has purged his impressive\u00a0\u00a313 million car collection \u2014 including a Mercedes AMG-One that he helped design \u2014 in order to finance his new hobby: Art collecting.<\/p>\n<p>Any future cars he might buy, Hamilton told media ahead of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, would\u00a0also be considered art pieces; he paid special mention to the Ferrari F40 as filling that criteria.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis Hamilton sells off impressive\u00a0\u00a313m car collection<\/p>\n<p>As with most prestigious racing drivers, seven-time Formula 1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton has been amassing a collection of high-quality and ultra-rare cars for years \u2014 since he first made his F1 debut back in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/features\/lewis-hamilton-car-collection\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">private garage<\/a>\u00a0has gained notoriety thanks to Hamilton\u2019s discerning taste, and his collection was long littered with classics: A Pagani Zonda 760 LH, the ultra-rare Mercedes-AMG One (a plug-in hybrid that Hamilton himself offered feedback in developing), and classics like a 1967 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500.<\/p>\n<p>But Lewis Hamilton is not the same man he was when joining Formula 1, and he recently revealed to media ahead of the 2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix that he\u2019s sold off his prodigious collection for \u00a313 million!<\/p>\n<p>More of Lewis Hamilton on PlanetF1.com:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/features\/lewis-hamilton-net-worth-athlete-ranking\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis Hamilton net worth: Where does he rank amongst the world\u2019s 50 highest-paid athletes?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/lewis-hamilton-ferrari-salary-ranked\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">10 biggest sports deals in history: Where does Lewis Hamilton\u2019s Ferrari salary rank?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have any cars anymore,\u201d the Ferrari driver stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have any cars, so I got rid of all my cars. I\u2019m more into art nowadays.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, he hasn\u2019t ruled out a future in automotive collection; he\u2019d just prefer that those machines carry their own inherent artistic quality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I was going to get a car, it would be the [Ferrari] F40 \u2014 but that\u2019s a nice piece of art,\u201d he admitted.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton\u2019s interest in art is nothing new; earlier this season, he collaborated Hajime Sorayama in designing a limited-edition merchandise collection for the Japanese Grand Prix following a previous collaboration in which they designed a helmet together.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton has also been closely involved with Takashi Murakami, releasing several merchandise collections together under his +44 brand.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to sell his cars also follows Hamilton\u2019s longtime environmental advocacy which has seen him adopt a vegan diet and encourage his race teams to strive for carbon neutrality.<\/p>\n<p>Read next:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/features\/hall-of-fame-lewis-hamilton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis Hamilton: The new superstar that Formula 1 was looking for<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has purged his impressive\u00a0\u00a313 million car collection \u2014 including a Mercedes AMG-One that he helped design&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,930,576,577,1613,932,44,22395,82],"class_list":["post-156536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-home-page","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-news","tag-popular","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}