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,

When asked to compare the Hamilton that was leaving Mercedes to the one who joined, Shovlin told the Beyond the Grid podcast: “Every year he was with this team, he would go away for the winter, he had a great awareness of where he could improve himself, and he would come back in in January a stronger driver.