Strutting out in front of 20,000 euphoric British fans, sporting the most striking of Ferrari red race suits, Lewis Hamilton placed a solitary finger to his ear and beamed.
Entering season number 19 in Formula 1, the 40-year-old knows he is now always the star of the show. And on Tuesday night at F1 75 Live, as F1 tried an event as razzle-dazzle as it was experimental in a nod to its 75th anniversary, the biggest transfer in the history of the sport made certain that their high-rolling London bet came up big.