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It has been revealed that Lewis Hamilton left a special gift for his 3,000 former colleagues at Mercedes, before his departure to Ferrari.
In a recent Instagram post, renowned motorsport artist Paul Oz has revealed that Lewis Hamilton commissioned him to paint a special parting gift for his 3,000 former colleagues at Mercedes.
The artist decided to create an oil painting of Lewis’ spectacular victory at the 2019 Monaco Grand Prix, the first race following former non-executive chairman Niki Lauda’s passing.
“Now that it’s public knowledge and all 3,000 Mercedes GP employees have received their prints of this, I can talk about it,” Oz said.
“Commissioned by Lewis himself as a departing present for everybody at Mercedes… class act!
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“My only remit was that I should focus on the car rather than Lewis, and so I chose to paint an image from Monaco 2019, just a few days after Niki Lauda passed and the team ran a red halo to remember Niki.
“Lewis stuck it on pole then dominated the race.”
Oz added that prints of the work will not be commercially available.
“This original oil painting now hangs in Brackley. No prints are commercially available sorry,” he concluded.
You can take a look at the painting in the video below.
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