4 Years After Selling His $29 Million Private Jet for Environment, Lewis Hamilton Spends $3,600 to Fly Private to Belgium

Lewis Hamilton has been a prominent figure in topics related to the environment and has often spoken about how people should play a bigger role in environmental conservatism. In a bid to further his cause, the British driver even sold his private jet worth $29 million in 2019. However, the 7x world champion recently flew in a private plane to reach Belgium for the Spa-Francorchamps Grand Prix, spending $3,600 in the process.

YouTuber Kym Illman recently posted a video on his channel where he revealed what planes the F1 stars used to reach Spa-Francorchamps for the Belgian GP. And in his list, contrary to his bold move four years ago, Hamilton came out of a jet that he rented a plane to fly him to Liege.

“Lewis Hamilton flew private on Wednesday evening, too. Like Charles, he was in a Cessna 560XL Citation XLS. This is an aircraft that carries eight people comfortably. It departed Oxford in England at 7:46 pm, flies just under an hour, and arrived at 8:44 pm. But interestingly, Lewis’ plane was the only one that did not park out on the Tarmac and let the passengers out there to walk across. He’s taxied straight to the hangar where he and his entourage deplaned.”

Given the flight was nearly an hour long, information gathered from Paramount Business Jets suggests Hamilton could have paid $3,600 to fly from Oxford to his destination.

Spa’s remoteness led to Hamilton going against his beliefs

Spa stands as one the most remote areas of a relatively tourist-heavy country like Belgium. The town does not have an airport, with the closest one in Liege being 45 minutes away. A plane ride from Oxford (which may or may not have been according to Hamilton’s needs) to Liege and a subsequent 45-minute car ride to Spa would have been taxing for the Briton, who instead chose to fly directly to Spa.

 

Upon diving deeper into the YouTuber’s videos, we find Hamilton usually prefers driving to the race venues in a Mercedes EQS, which is a completely electric car.