John Porter

#ItalianGP 🇮🇹 | Lewis Hamilton asked about his Ferrari F40: "I've been looking for one for a while, and I wanted one with low mileage. I wanted one with a story, and lots have come up in auction over the past couple of years. Some with low mileage, but just not particularly special, or maybe the paint's been redone, or something like that….” “I wanted to find the most authentic one, and managed to come across this one that the driver, the owner had bought it, drove it from Maranello to his home, 69 kilometres, and then parked it and never started it again. And the passenger door had never been opened, you know, so it just had this cover on it and all this dust, and then the decision was kind of — what do you do, do you keep it as an art piece, keep it all dusty, or do you have them clean it up? So that took me a while to decide, and then I had them redone because I wanted to drive it in, because I realised actually what's kind of crazy is, I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure none of the Ferrari drivers in history have ever arrived in the coolest cars that they have, you know, these iconic ones, the GTO or the F40, and I was like, it has to be done.” “When they took the engine out, they found out the engine's number 44, it's got stamped on the engine, number 44, I couldn't believe it.” “It feels very much [like] fate, and I thought it was a real opportunity to kind of highlight the history of Ferrari in their home country, at their race, and when am I ever going to get to do that again.”