Photo credit: Lewis Hamilton | Larry Chen | 13thWitness
Drivers gathered at the Daikoku Parking Area in Tokyo one evening recently when Lewis Hamilton arrived in a bright red Ferrari F40. The seven-time Formula One World Champion hops out of this renowned 1980s beast and, before you know it, he’s taking it out on the lot for a series of controlled spins and slides, all of which is captured on tape for what he subsequently calls Tokyo Drift Vol. III. The cams were rolling the entire time as part of a carefree evening out with fellow car aficionados, with some simply cruising and others doing sharp donuts and blasting the night air with clouds of smoke.
Hamilton drives the F40 with complete confidence, despite the car’s reputation for having a lot of power under the hood thanks to the 1980s twin-turbo V8. The F40 was built between 1987 and 1992, and if you can find one in decent condition now, you can expect to pay between $2 and 3/4 million and $4 million. He’d spoken about his love for this car before, even floated the idea of a modern version with a manual box. Last night, those words were put into action, proving why the F40 remains so popular with collectors.
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Kim Kardashian spent a big portion of the evening in the passenger seat while Hamilton tore it up. She was grinning from ear to ear as the automobile turned around and the tires screeched. When the final donut was finished and the smoke cleared, a camera went close enough to record her response. We’d been hearing tales about them for a long time, and finally everything came together last night. Hamilton released the finished video to Instagram and X on April 6, just a few days after finishing sixth in the Japanese Grand Prix. The cut was done by his long-time colleague (known as 13thwitness), with some supplementary footage and stills supplied by Larry Chen and Yip Feng, who was one of the guys who was filming all of the action while driving the chase vehicle.
Hamilton’s new Tokyo experience fits into his pattern of having fun on the road and with fans. We recall him doing a video in a Nissan Skyline R34 GT-R in 2022, which was similar to this one, but with a different car and the Japanese GT-R emblem instead of the Ferrari legend. Daikoku fans go crazy, cheering and taking photos everywhere, while the rest of us have to wait till the video clips are available online.
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