Kylie Jenner turned 29 on August 10, and the Instagram post that followed, captioned “hello 29”, featured a very specific chauffeur: a seven-time Formula 1 world champion in a crash helmet, tearing across a dirt track with the reality star in the passenger seat.

The vehicle was a Can-Am Maverick X3, an off-road UTV built for rough terrain. A voice off-camera is heard shouting “birthday ride!” before Hamilton floors it and the two vanish into a spray of dust.

Hamilton is now embedded in the extended Kardashian-Jenner orbit. He has been dating Kim Kardashian since February, and joined the birthday party alongside Khloé, Kendall Jenner and Kris Jenner, who greeted the milestone on Instagram with “Happy 29 my girl!”.

Hamilton posted his own Hawaii photo dump.

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“Hold your people close,” he wrote.

From Hawaiian dust to Dutch tarmac

F1’s summer shutdown ends this week. Hamilton is back in the Ferrari for the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort on Sunday, August 23, with lights out at 3pm local time.

The comeback he faces is steep. After 11 rounds, Hamilton sits second in the 2026 drivers’ championship on 169 points, 50 behind championship leader Kimi Antonelli of Mercedes and nine ahead of George Russell. Charles Leclerc, his Ferrari teammate, is fourth on 138.

With 316 points still on the board across the 12 remaining rounds, the math is not the obstacle. The obstacle is Antonelli, who at 19 has not stopped scoring, and who, unlike Hamilton, has not spent August in a dune buggy.

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