As the first of Ferrari's Formula 1 choirs since Michael Schumacher, Lewis Hamilton will live in founder Enzo Ferrari's home.
Lewis Hamilton moves into Enzo Ferrari's former home. The seven-time world champion, who will switch to Ferrari in 2025, will stay in Enzo Ferrari's famous house when he visits the team's test track, Fiorano.
Ferrari founder Enzo Ferrari bought the house in the 1960s. And it was from here that several of the first Ferrari models were tested on the surrounding roads.
The house is still very important to Ferrari, even though Enzo Ferrari died in 1988. The Italian journalist Carlo Vanzini from Sky Sports Italia makes that clear in a new podcast.
According to Vanzini, being in the house at all is a rare honor that only very, very few achieve. It certainly hasn't been all Ferrari's Formula 1 choirs too bad over the years either.
Most recently, Michael Schumacher lived in the house. The German ended his glorious career with Ferrari, because he made a comeback with Mercedes in 2010. So a reversed Hamilton.
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Vanzini believes that Ferrari is offering Hamilton the house to give him a completely private sanctuary away from the public spotlight.
– He will have the house as a base when he is at Fiorano (city and racetrack share the same name, ed.).
– Since Schumacher, no other Formula 1 driver has had that honor. I also think it was the right choice. Because I think it's already difficult for a famous person like Lewis to move around in public," Vanzini says in the podcast.
Hamilton, who has won seven Formula One world championships, will leave Mercedes after the 2024 season to drive for Ferrari. The just 18-year-old Italian Andrea Kimi Antonelli takes over the world champion's place at Mercedes.
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