The fans outside Ferrari’s test track in Fiorano had been there long before dawn. Some had scaled the security fencing, others had brought stepladders and pulled away at the green netting that had been installed to keep out prying eyes and camera lenses.
At one point, the growing throng of Tifosi was five or six people deep, each with craned necks trying to catch a glimpse of Lewis Hamilton’s first lap in a Ferrari F1 car.
