Lewis Hamilton has spent years chasing the Ferrari F40. As a child he kept a model of one. When he joined the Scuderia he made sure an F40 appeared in his first official shoot at Maranello. Last year he sold most of his personal collection and said only one car could pull him back into ownership. He found that car sitting under a cover in a private garage, exactly as its first owner had left it in 1991.
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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.
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Lewis Hamilton kicked off his first day Scuderia Ferrari HP by posing in front of a legendary F40. The seven-time world champion arrived at the team’s Maranello headquarters at via Enzo Ferrari 27 yesterday morning.