[New post] Lewis Hamilton’s stunning supercar collection includes two LaFerraris and a McLaren P1, while he sold crashed Pagani Zonda for £7.5m and owned £19m private jet
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Lewis Hamilton described last year's Mercedes W13 challenger as the 'worst car I've ever had' - and he would know.
Not only has the seven-time world champion driven some of the best Formula 1 cars ever made, but also the best road cars, with an enviable collection.
Hamilton's W14 is a beauty, much like his road carsCompany cars don't get much betterMercedes 'G-Wagon' also sits in Hamilton's collection
Living in Monaco with further homes in Manhattan, New York and also Switzerland, Hamilton is not only one of the most successful active athletes in the world, but one of the richest.
And given his profession, it's no surprise that a fair chunk of that goes on road cars, even though he's admitted he doesn't actually enjoy driving off of the race track.
"I just think that I find it stressful," he told Vanity Fair last year. "I try not to do things that don't add to my life."
Conducting that interview in the most modest of vehicles, a Smart Car, Mercedes mini two-seater microcar.
"Look, we're on these roads, anything can happen," he said while getting overtaken. "This is now stressful for me. This road is crazy. So much going on here. I'm going to turn around in a second."
The 37-year-old hasn't always been so adverse to driving though, with a car collection that leaves petrolheads drooling.
It all began with a modest Mini, but prices have skyrocketed thanks to Italian Job nostalgia
It all began with a Mini Cooper back when Hamilton was growing up in Stevenage, a small but pokey icon of the motoring world, which would only end up being outgunned by far more powerful machines.
Carhp have ranked the Brit's most expensive motors as of 2023, with a list of 13 supercars totalling £24million in list price.
Way out ahead in his collection is a car that even rivals F1 speeds in some categories, but was also part of an unfortunate accident.
A self-branded Pagani Zonda 760LH in Hamilton's trademark purple reportedly sold for $9.5m [£7.5m] in 2021, despite him crashing it eight years earlier.
Cars don't come much more epic than the PaganiA Ferrari isn't a bad thing to have in your collection instead
Pagani are known as one of the original 'hypercar' brands with extraordinary looks, breakneck speed, screeching engines and 0-60 times regularly below three seconds.
That means it's slightly more forgivable that Hamilton managed to lose control of his personalised model in Monaco in 2015 and crash into some parked cars, which would have left him worried about its £1.7m value.
However, with the brand so rare and only increasing in legendary status over the years, he managed to sell it for more than five times what he paid in 2021.
That doesn't mean his supercar purchases stopped there, though, with cash heading in the direction of rival F1 teams after picking up an incredible Mercedes AMG One.
It began with an idea. A dream.... @F1 technology brought to the streets.
— Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team (@MercedesAMGF1) June 1, 2022
Hamilton designed an AMG One in his trademark purpleHe also has a P1 to boot
Hamilton owns two Ferrari LaFerraris, having previously admitted he always wanted to drive for the Italian team, while on top of that he has the hybrid competitor of his former team McLaren, with a P1 in his collection.
Despite the enviable list of supercars, it's far from just about speed for Hamilton, who clearly loves American muscle.
Owning a number of Shelby Cobras over the years as well as a Ford Mustang, Hamilton also purchased the ultimate Chelsea tractor, a Mercedes-AMG G63 6X6.
Cobras are so iconic even fake kitcars sell for six figures, but Hamilton has the real thing from the 60s
Gazumping all of that, though, is his Bombardier Challenger 605, which, if you hadn't guessed by the name, is a plane rather than a car.
Hamilton's cherry red private jet was a regular fixture at race weekends, costing him an eye-watering $23million [£19m] in 2013.
Despite it possibly being the most exclusive item in world sport for many years, rival millionaires can now charter the jet, with Hamilton selling it at a massive loss in 2019.
Wanting to reduce his carbon footprint, Hamilton has been far more associated with his pitlane scooter.
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