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Lewis Hamilton was not included in a F1 gift from Ferrari Chairman John Elkann to Pope Leo XIV.
Lewis Hamilton was not included in a F1 gift from Ferrari Chairman John Elkann to Pope Leo XIV. The 49-year-old was invited to a private audience with the Pope at the Vatican, where Rome Reports shared a series of pictures from the meeting. Elkann presented the Pope with a special gift; but rather than the gift being attached to F1 legend and seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton, his team-mate Charles Leclerc was bestowed with the honor. Pope Leo was presented with Leclerc’s steering wheel, to which he asked: “A steering wheel… So is this a real steering wheel from a real car?” Elkann also presented the Pope with a scale model of the Ferrari SF90 XX Stradale, which is also the same supercar that Leclerc drives. In 2005, Pope Benedict XVI received Michael Schumacher’s 2003 championship winning steering wheel from former chairman Luca di Montezemolo.
