Fans miss Lewis Hamilton’s first lap in a Ferrari as thick fog engulfs iconic F1 circuit

FANS missed Lewis Hamilton driving a Ferrari Formula One car for the archetypal clip arsenic fog engulfed the track.

The seven-time satellite champion has been astatine the manufacturer's HQ successful Maranello, Italy since the commencement of the week.

Hamilton got the accidental to instrumentality an aged F1 car for a rotation contiguous astir the Ferrari-owned Fiorano Circuit.

Sky Sports News cameras were determination to seizure the infinitesimal unrecorded but ended up having a nightmare.

They went implicit to newsman Craig Slater astatine the incorrect moment, who informed them: "I americium acrophobic your timing is precise unfortunate due to the fact that Lewis Hamilton has conscionable flashed past successful the past fewer seconds."

Viewers had to hold for him to travel astir again, but they were near struggling to spot the car owed to incredibly heavy fog.

Fans joked: "He has disappeared successful the mist."

Another commented: "Looks similar immoderate benignant of a concealed reveal. Just request to hold for the mist to wide and we volition spot Hamilton."

Around 1,000 fans were astatine the Fiorano Circuit to get a glimpse of their caller hero.

Ferrari released a clip of the 40-year-old Brit successful their iconic reddish contention suit coming retired the aged location of laminitis Enzo Ferrari and hopping into a car.

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Supporters could not fell their excitement up of the caller season, which starts with investigating successful Bahrain connected February 26, saying: "This is perfectly awesome, what a moment."

A 2nd added: "Still feels similar I americium stuck successful a dream."

On his archetypal time astatine the Scuderia basal connected Monday, Hamilton posed for snaps successful beforehand of the iconic location wearing a stylish suit.

He ended his glittering 12-year enactment astatine Mercedes astatine the extremity of past play and penned a two-year woody with Ferrari worthy a reported £100million.

Hamilton's right-hand pistillate and "chief confidante" Angela Cullen is acceptable to articulation him astatine Ferrari, having spent the past 2 years moving apart.