F1 Racer Lewis Hamilton Sends Car and Grand Prix Trophy to Surprise Terminally Ill Fan, 5
Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton made one fan’s day after sending an F1 race car over to terminally ill 5-year-old Harry Shaw.
The boy from Surrey had sent Hamilton a good luck message on Instagram from his hospital bed before Hamilton won the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday in Barcelona, the BBC reported on Sunday.
“Hello Lewis Hamilton. Good luck winning the race in Spain and thank you for the gifts. Lots of love from Harry and goodbye,” Harry said in the video.
That good luck message resonated with the Formula One driver, who at first had his team send Harry some signed photographs and a Mercedes hat.
“It just went from there, really,” Charlotte Shaw, Harry’s mother, told the BBC. “It’s brought smiles into his life at a time when there’s a limited amount of fun to be had, to be perfectly honest.”
“It’s just got bigger and bigger and better and better and the smiles have got broader and broader,” she said of Hamilton’s gifts for Harry. “It’s so special to see Harry enjoying himself.”
Harry, who has Ewing’s sarcoma, was surprised with an actual Formula One Mercedes race car upon returning to his home for his final days. Charlotte and her husband James were told Harry had just one week left to live back in April, according to the BBC.
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