LEWIS HAMILTON HAS RESCUED A FERRARI F40 ABANDONED "FOR OVER THRIRTY YEARS"

 

“I don’t have any cars anymore,” said Lewis Hamilton back in 2025. “I got rid of all my cars. I’m more into art nowadays. If I was going to get a car, it would be the F40. But that’s a nice piece of art.”

Strong agree, Lewis. Now we learn the seven-time Formula One world champion has finally bagged himself a nice piece of art, because he’s just revealed he’s now the owner of a Ferrari F40.

The car he was pictured next to dressed like a mafia boss last year. The car that adorned a million bedroom walls in the Eighties. A car that Gerhard Berger once said was ‘easy to drive… if you are experienced with racing cars’.

We’re lightly certain Hamilton’s experienced with racing cars. And now he gets to work on his very own F40. “This is the car of my dreams and has been for as long as I can remember,” he said in his post. “As a kid I dreamt of having one. When I joined Ferrari last year I made sure to have one with me on my first day at Maranello. That’s how much it means to me.

“These cars are works of art and incredibly rare, so when I found this one, covered in dust after being sat in a garage for over thirty years, I knew I had to bring her home.

“First to Maranello, where the master engineers and mechanics at the factory worked for weeks to bring her back to life. Massive thank you to everyone who had a hand in this project. This has truly been a dream come true. I can’t wait to share more with you all.

“Stay tuned…”

Is this the beginning of his long-held ambition to build an F40-based 'F44' supercar with a manual gearbox? Stay tuned indeed.

- Vijay Pattni

FORMER FERRARI DRIVER LIFTS THE LID ON THE SCUDERIA'S REAL ISSUE

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Gerhard Berger has addressed Ferrari's delicate situations and the recent remarks made by chairman John Elkann.

“The expectations for Ferrari are always much higher than for other teams”

- GERHARD BERGER

According to the Austrian — who raced for Ferrari from 1987 to 1989 and again from 1993 to 1995 — the team’s real issue is that expectations around Ferrari are always far higher than for any other outfit, creating a level of pressure that’s quite hard to manage.

“The expectations for Ferrari are always much higher than for other teams. If they finish the championship in fourth, it will be seen as insufficient,” as quoted by Repubblica.

Recently, chairman Elkann made explosive remarks, urging the two drivers to “focus on driving more and talk less,” sparking a lot of debate online.

“When success doesn’t come, people become more emotional,” Berger stated. “It’s tough for mechanics, engineers, managers, and even the drivers. Leclerc is working really well, but Hamilton is also trying everything to win another title, which is his goal. At the moment, things aren’t going perfectly.”

For Berger, the only way forward is to stick with the current group and maintain calm and stability: “I believe the most important thing is to stay calm and focus on continuity, consistency, and unity. I remember that when Jean Todt joined Ferrari, it took him years to win the championship, and eventually he made it the strongest team of all.”

Elkann handed advice amid Hamilton and Leclerc criticism

Gian Carlo Minardi also weighed in on Elkann’s comments after the Brazilian Grand Prix — a weekend where Ferrari limped home with a double DNF, their second of the season.

According to him, “a team president must be a good family man” and that “criticism is made internally, never externally.”

He further stressed that management needs to be “like a family man, not like a court. We need to be less critical externally and much more critical internally.”

- byTobia Elia

IMOLA.1994 🔥 | FERRARI

 

A $443,500 FERRARI WAS STOLEN IN ITALY DURING A 1995 GRAND PRIX, 28 YEARS LATER, POLICE GOT IT BACK

* F1 driver Gerhard Berger's stolen Ferrari F512M was recovered after 28 years.

* Police believe the car was taken to Japan soon after it was stolen, and then shipped to the UK.

* No arrests have been made, but the investigation by the UK's Met Police is ongoing. 

Met Police 

A Ferrari stolen from Formula 1 legend Gerhard Berger nearly three decades ago has been recovered by British police.

Berger was at the San Marino Grand Prix in Imola, Italy, in April 1995 when his red Ferrari F512M, worth around $443,500, went missing.

The 10-time Grand Prix winner witnessed the car being driven away and attempted to chase the thief but could not catch them, The London Evening Standard reported.

The car was reported missing, but there was no trace of it until January of this year, when it was discovered in the UK, according to a press release issued by Britain's Metropolitan Police on Monday."

Ferrari contacted the police in January after checks on the car, purchased by a US buyer via a UK broker, showed it was stolen.

The Organised Vehicle Crime Unit took four days to investigate the car's history, tracing back 28 years to when it was stolen from Berger.

Our enquiries were painstaking and included contacting authorities from around the world," said PC Mike Pilbeam, who led the investigation.

F1: MEXICO GP TO MAKE A COMEBACK SINCE 1992

Nigel Mansell (center) in 1992
Left: Riccardo Patrese. Right: Michael Schumacher

Mexico Grand Prix back again in 2015 after a long absence.

F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone has confirmed and added it would benefit both sides. 

It has been 23 years from the last race at  Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez

The track was used from 1963-1970 and 1986-1992.

The last driver to win the Mexican GP was Nigel Mansell from UK with  team Williams-Renault...

Mexican Grand Prix winners
Year	Driver	Team
1992	Nigel Mansell (GB)	Williams-Renault
1991	Riccardo Patrese (Ita)	Williams-Renault
1990	Alain Prost (Fra)	Ferrari
1989	Ayrton Senna (Bra)	McLaren-Honda
1988	Alain Prost (Fra)	McLaren-Honda
1987	Nigel Mansell (GB)	Williams-Honda
1986	Gerhard Berger (Aust)	Benetton-BMW

Ecclestone alsondaid they are talkin with Azerbaijan for the preparation of a F1 event. 

Azerbaijan is a rich oil nation and they want a street race in Baku.

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