It seems that the story of F1 driver Lewis Hamilton buying a fancy number plate is wrong! The McLaren racer denies that he paid around £200,000 for a personalised number plate, saying that it sounded like the worst number plate ever!

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2008-06-25 07:53:19 - Personallyyours.co.uk who is registered with the DVLA has been in the personalised number plate industry for twenty years. They provide private number plates, rare number plates, attend number plate auctions and buy cherished number plates.

Hamilton denies buying LEW 1S number plate

It seems that the story of F1 driver Lewis Hamilton buying a fancy number plate is wrong! The McLaren racer denies that he paid around £200,000 for a personalised number plate, saying that it sounded like the worst number plate ever!

He was questioned about the purchase during the French Grand Prix weekend, where in a press conference the questions were nit about his driving but more about the number plate and whether or not he actually did go out of his way to buy it.

The question is now, that was this just a publicity stunt by the actual owner of the LEW 1S number plate, a certain property developer Bob Lewis 57, who at the time was away on holiday in the South of France, only he can let the truth be known and it would be interesting to see if this number plate is still on his Mercedes or on another Mercedes somewhere in Switzerland.

Lewis Hamilton may have relished the talk of this number plate, rather than the comments that his driving in the last two Grand Prix has generated.

"That sounds like the worst number plate I've ever heard of," said the Vodafone McLaren driver.

"I'm not stupid enough to spend a couple of hundred grand on a bloody number plate," he added. "I wouldn't spend 100 pounds on a number plate. A number plate is a number plate; it doesn't mean anything to me."

Only time will tell, it would be great to know where the number plate is and if it is still up for sale, as there are plenty of famous Lewis's around!

Source [Paddock Talk]



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