Lewis Hamilton could join Sir Jim Ratcliffe as Mercedes part-owner confirms interest to buy Manchester United
Sir Jim Ratcliffe has confirmed his interest in p⭕urchasing the football club from 🗹the Glazer family.
Ratcliffe also owns a huge stake in Mercedes’ F1 team so could be joined in th🎉e consortium by Hamilton,🌳 the reports.
They tried and failed to buy Chelsea last year.
Hamilton has been building up a remarkable set of investments outside of his👍 𓄧F1 career, including a stake in NFL team the Denver Broncos.
R𒈔atcliffe, as INEOS CEO, owns 3👍3 percent of Mercedes’ F1 team. Toto Wolff, the team principal, owns 33 percent. And Daimler, who own Mercedes-Benz, have the remaining third.
ꦑ“If the club is for sale, Jim is definitely a potential buyer,” Ratcliffe’s spokesperson told The Times last year.
Hamilton said at the time: “Jim’s part boss but partner - I’d say we’re more partners because we’ꦑre in this together, and I hope in future to do something with Jim and build with h🍎im. I don’t know where that will be or what that will be, so I can’t really say.
“I haven’t had a call from him asking if I want to be involved in that just yet. But I do want to get more and more involved in teams becaไuse I really do believe in black ownership, there is a lack of it in sports. And black equity, again, there is a real lack of that.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American 𓃲sports, to football, to F1.
