Sir Lewis Hamilton has revealed he has shockingly sold off his entire car collection - worth an estimated £13million - to pursue a new passion.

The seven-time Formula 1 champion is currently racing at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix where he'll be hoping to finally finish on the podium for Ferrari.

As one of the richest athletes in the world and one of the most successful motor-racing drivers of all-time, the 40-year-old's garage was filled with many extremely valuable and rare cars.

It has been confirmed that over the years Hamilton kept a number of Mercedeses, Ferraris, McLarens and even a Mini Cooper in his private garages in Monaco and Los Angeles.

The pride of his collection was a Pagani Zonda 760 LH - a one-off hypercar built specifically for the Brit, which cost him £1.6m.

Hamilton actually sold his Zonda for a large profit back in 2021, but in Baku he revealed to reporters that his whole collection has now gone too.

Asked if he was interested in buying Ferrari's latest supercar, the F80, he surprisingly responded: 'I don't have any cars anymore.

'I don't have any cars, so I got rid of all my cars. I'm more into art nowadays.'

Hamilton's interest in art is nothing new having collaborated with illustrator Hajime Sorayama and artist Takashi Murakami earlier this season to design limited-edition merchandise.

He did however say he would still consider buying one car, though not to drive: 'If I was going to get a car, it would be the [Ferrari] F40. But that's a nice piece of art.

'One of the things I really want to do is I want to design a Ferrari. I want to do an F44 [named after his racing number].

'Baseline of an F40, with the actual stick shift. That's what I'm gonna work on for the next few years.'

At his official unveiling as a Ferrari driver at the start of the year, Hamilton notably posed next to the legendary F40 outside of Enzo Ferrari's house in Maranello, Italy.

Hamilton had previously admitted that he wasn't driving much of his car collection, aside from his electric Mercedes EQC, in an effort to reduce his carbon footprint.

He also confessed that while he loves racing at 200mph on the track, he wasn't fond of driving on normal roads, telling Vanity Fair in 2022: 'I just think that I find it stressful.

'I try not to do things that don't add to my life. We're on these roads, anything can happen.'

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Lewis Hamilton explains why he sold his entire £13m car collection