Seven-time Method 1 champion Lewis Hamilton has gone viral with the extremely anticipated launch of the most recent video from his Tokyo Drift sequence.
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 exhibits the screaming twin-turbo V8 of the F40 as he makes his method by way of the streets of the town, drifting and pulling off doughnuts within the Daikoku Parking Space in Yokohama.
The video ends with the digicam transferring in direction of the automobile by way of tyre smoke left by the doughnuts to look on the passenger window. Actuality tv star Kim Kardashian, who’s rumoured to be in a relationship with the Briton, turns to the digicam 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 in the course of 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 “laborious launch”.
The video has already drawn an enormous response from followers. “Don’t know what’s tougher, the drifts or the laborious 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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