Since Mercedes-Benz is not making a hypercar at the moment, the carmaker’s Formula One drivers have to look elsewhere to quench their thirst for F1-derived performance in a road car. Nico Rosberg drove a C63 AMG until recently, but Lewis Hamilton is a bit more flamboyant in his choices of personal cars. After ordering a bespoke Zonda 760 Roadster from Pagani, Lewis bought himself a Ferrari LaFerrari as a present for winning the 2014 Formula One Championship.
Normally, which road car is driven by an F1 driver falls under "celebrity gossip," something that we don’t cover on TopSpeed, but this time it’s different. As most of you know, Ferrari is battling Mercedes-Benz in Formula One, and Lewis is still under contract with the three-pointed star. In other words, the Brit buying a car from its team’s arch-enemy is bound to raise some suspicion, but fortunately it doesn’t seem to pose a problem for his bosses. "Sure, Lewis has had contact with Ferrari," Toto Wolff, Executive Director at Mercedes-AMG Petronas, confirmed to Germany’s Sport Bild. "He has just bought a LaFerrari. We have no problem with that." he continued.
Hamilton is not the first F1 driver to buy a LaFerrari while under contract with one of Ferrari’s opponents on the track. In 2014, Sebastian Vettel awarded himself with a similar hypercar while driving for Red Bull, but his contract didn’t allow him to make it public. A year later, Seb jumped ship to Ferrari, so various media outlets began reporting that Hamilton might do the same.
Continue reading to learn more about Hamilton’s new acquisition.
Lewis Hamilton Buys A LaFerrari - Rumors Start Swirling originally appeared on topspeed.com on Tuesday, 24 March 2015 18:00 EST.
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