Yesterday was a quiet day for Lewis and Alonzo as McLaren pulled them out of their respective scheduled press conferences as the battle between the team and Ferrari heats up. 

Ron Dennis, eager to shield his drivers from the affair, opted to withdraw Hamilton and Alonso from press duties at the circuit. Hamilton’s only media function of the day was a Karting event in Budapest held by Vodaphone.

Hamilton had been scheduled to conduct a number of group interviews at the McLaren ‘Brand Centre’ - the team’s recently-acquired £10million paddock home, and Alonso was due to appear in the official FIA press conference, but following a request from McLaren he was allowed to pull out without financial penalty.

Back in England his local supermarket have decided to honor Lewis by making his life a little easier away from the track.

The ASDA Supermarket in Stevenage near his home town of Tewis have allocated Lewis a parking spot marked with a plaque initialled L.H. right outside their front door – never will Hamilton have to fight for a space while shopping there again.