Lewis Hamilton is eager to leave his mark on Ferrari by shaping a bespoke supercar of his own design.
Just a month before donning his black suit and posing beside an F40 outside Enzo Ferrari's old home to kick off his stint with the team, the seven-time world champion admitted he'd grown weary of high-performance road cars.
"The last car I bought was the AMG One," the 40-year-old shared with Auto Motor und Sport. "But that was also my last supercar for the time being. I don't have much desire to buy any more at the moment.
"I prefer to invest my money in art these days. I'm constantly discovering new artists, especially great black artists."
When pressed on his waning interest in sports cars, Hamilton elaborated: "Most modern ones look kind of the same. I feel like something's missing.
"I prefer the old classics, also in terms of sound and emotion."
The F40, first produced in Maranello in the late 1980s, stands out as a timeless icon—and it's this Ferrari that Hamilton has chosen as inspiration for his ambitious venture.
"One of the things I really want to do is design a Ferrari," he now says. "I want to design an F44.
"The basis is an F40, with a real manual transmission. I'll be working on that over the next few years."
