Seven-time System 1 champion Lewis Hamilton has gone viral with the extremely anticipated launch of the newest video from his Tokyo Drift collection.
Filmed forward of the 2026 Japanese Grand Prix, the British driver took to the wheel of the legendary Ferrari F40 as he raced across the streets of Tokyo. He was joined by a Nissan Skyline R34, modified as a reproduction of the silver and blue equipment pushed by Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker) in 2 Quick 2 Livid, full with blue underglow, and a VeilSide Mazda RX-7 from the follow-up film, Tokyo Drift.
Following his earlier Tokyo Drift movies, which famously landed him in sizzling water with a rental firm in 2022 over unauthorised driving, Hamilton’s newest instalment reveals the screaming twin-turbo V8 of the F40 as he makes his means via the streets of town, drifting and pulling off doughnuts within the Daikoku Parking Space in Yokohama.
The video ends with the digital camera transferring in the direction of the automobile via tyre smoke left by the doughnuts to seem on the passenger window. Actuality tv star Kim Kardashian, who’s rumoured to be in a relationship with the Briton, turns to the digital camera and easily says, “That is insane”.
The video comes after months of intense hypothesis relating to the pair’s relationship. Having been noticed collectively at a New Yr’s Eve get together in Aspen, the Tremendous Bowl and in Tokyo throughout the week of the Japanese Grand Prix, Hamilton’s newest video has additional fuelled these rumours.
Whereas neither get together has formally confirmed it, followers branded the Tokyo Drift video as a “onerous launch”.
The video has already drawn an enormous response from followers. “Don’t know what’s more durable, the drifts or the onerous launch,” one fan commented, whereas others branded the video “iconic” and “epic”.
On the time of writing, it had been watched 17.3 million instances, had 1.6 million likes and 13,700 feedback on Instagram.
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