Lewis Hamilton added a Ferrari F40 to his collection — not just any F40, but a barn find he unearthed after it sat dust-covered in a garage for three decades. The seven-time champion called it "the car of my dreams" and made sure one was waiting at Maranello on his first day as a Ferrari driver last year. This particular example required weeks of restoration by Ferrari's factory engineers to bring it back to life.
The F40 was the last road car signed off by Enzo Ferrari himself, launched in 1987 when Hamilton was two years old. Its 3.0-liter twin-turbo V8 pumps out 351 kW and hits 324 kph flat out — analog, raw, and increasingly rare. Hamilton's romantic side has always run deep, but pairing a childhood obsession with Ferrari's most iconic supercar while wearing the red race suit feels like the sort of storybook symmetry he's chased his whole career. Now he just needs the championship to match.
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