Hamilton’s curation of his profile remains a lesson to those aspiring to F1 megastar status

Gil Scott-Heron said the revolution will not be televised. Although Lewis Hamilton’s first Ferrari Formula 1 test was broadcast on Sky Sports F1’s YouTube channel and NOW TV’s TikTok profile. Does that count? Only – I’m reliably informed by my younger colleagues – if the presenters of the latter signed off by doing an apple dance and saying “skibidi toilet”.

The auguries for spectacle were not good. January at Fiorano and an event running to the FIA’s Testing of Previous Cars protocol meant mist and mizzle were in prospect, along with an obsolete car running on purposely irrelevant tyres. Hardly cause to open up a live blog – oh, what, you did?