Lewis Hamilton drove a Ferrari Formula 1 car for the first time Wednesday and described it as "one of the best feelings of my life.” Hamilton was behind the wheel of a 2023-specification Ferrari SF-23 bearing his racing number,

The 40-year-old set a time of around one minute per lap, which is slower than teammate Leclerc's 57.6 set a couple of years ago and F1 great Michael Schumacher, who holds the lap record of 55.999 in Ferrari's title-winning F2004 car.

A gut feeling drove Lewis Hamilton to sign for Ferrari, Formula One's most successful driver told LinkedIn on Thursday, at the start of his bid to return the sport's most successful team to former glories.