Lewis Hamilton has a net worth of $550 million in 2026, as per Celebrity Net Worth. Hamilton, British, primarily derives his wealth from career as a Formula One race car driver for Ferrari.
Hamilton, the only Black race car driver in F1, started his career by joining the McLaren Young Driver program in 1998. He subsequently became a McLaren driver in 2007, finishing in the runners up spot in his debut season. He went on to race for the McLaren team till 2012, after which he moved to Mercedes team, where he stayed till 2024.
As per Celebrity Net Worth, Hamilton earned around $50 million from endorsements in 2016-2017, $51 million from 2017 to 2018 and $55 million after that in 2018 to 2019.
In 2018, he signed a two year contract extension with Mercedes that was reportedly $50 million per year.
In 2024, he signed a two year contract with Mercedes which had him drawing a salary of $60 million per year. However, just after a year, Hamilton broke that contract and moved to Ferrari, with a reported $107 million per year salary contract.
Alongisde his earnings from his racing career, Hamilton has a number of other sources of wealth. As per Celebrity Net Worth, Lewis Hamilton owns a car collection that is worth at least around $40 million, with just eight cars from his collection being worth around $34.5 million.
Lewis Hamilton owns a mansion in Kensington, London worth $25 million, as well as an apartment in the Nyon area of Geneva in Switzerland, a apartment in Moncao, and a estate in Colorado. He owned a penthouse in New York, which he listed in 2019 for $57 million.
In addition to his real estate, Hamilton has had a number of business ventures over the year. He was the co-founder of the vegan restuarant Neat Burger in 2019, which subsequently closed in 2025.
Lewis Hamilton was reportedly one of the investors which bought the fashion magazine W. In 2020, he launched the racing team Team X44, which competed in the Extreme E racing series from 2021 to 2023. The team won both driver and teams championships in 2022. It departed from the Extreme E racing series in 2024.
In 2022, Hamilton became part of the ownership group of the Denver Broncos, a team in the NFL. Other ventures include the fashion line TommyXLewis, which he launched in 2018 and Almave, a spirit brand in 2023.
Lewis Hamilton slammed by Link Lauren over his viral comments on ‘wealth disparity’
A clip from Lewis Hamilton’s 2023 appearance on Jay Shetty’s podcast has reemerged on social media. In the clip, Hamilton says:
“Something that I struggle with every day, and it’s just how life is and how it’s been for thousands of years, is that there is such a disparity between the wealthy and the poor. Still, when you drive around L.A., there are so many people living on the streets. You shouldn’t be able to have billions, right? I think there should be a limit to how much you can have because there’s enough to go around to everyone.”
This comment from the re-emerged clip has now gone viral and generated backlash on the internet, including from Link Lauren, who slammed the driver, stating:
“Now, I’m not a billionaire. I understand the point he’s getting at, but it’s also worth noting on that podcast, he’s sitting there talking to Jay Shetty, who I think just got $100 million for a podcast deal. So, they’re both going to sit there and virtue signal and lie to their audiences..”
Link Lauren later added:
“I’m just tired of the buffoonery and the tom foolery and the lying and the shenanigans. If you’re a billionaire, go be a billionaire. Don’t try and cosplay and say, “oh, there’s such a wealth disparity in Los Angeles”…”
Lewis Hamilton has not responded to the criticism by Link Lauren as of the writing of this article.
Edited by Soumyajyoti Mukherjee