Lewis Hamilton wants to design a modern day Ferrari F40 with manual gearbox

Seven-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton has recently revealed that he wants to create a new supercar in the spirit of the legendary Ferrari F40.

Lewis Hamilton left Mercedes at the end of previous season to join Ferrari for 2025. The seven-time F1 champion suffered a rocky start to the current season, having struggled for pace in Australia.

However, the Briton went on to secure pole position for the Shanghai sprint before dominating the 19-lap race. The following Suzuka round turned out to be a difficult weekend for Hamilton as he struggled for pace in qualifying while he also suffered from higher tyre degradation than his direct rivals experienced.

The 40-year-old then appeared to be more comfortable in his SF-25 in Bahrain, but he failed to put a good lap together in the last qualifying segment, ending up only ninth on the grid. However, he finally displayed encouraging race pace at last Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix, pursuing an offset strategy to move up to grid to a fifth-place finish thanks to a series of brilliant overtaking manoeuvres.

The British seven-time F1 world champion has recently revealed that he wants to create a new supercar in the spirit of the legendary Ferrari F40.

The 40-year-old has hinted that he would like to base the car, which could be called the F44, in a nod to his racing number, on the “baseline” of the F40, and the car would include a manual gearbox.

”One of the things I really want to do is I want to design a Ferrari. I want to do an F44. Baseline of an F40, with the actual stick shift. That’s what I’m gonna work on for the next few years,” he told Motorsport.com.