NOW this is a tale to tell your classmates on Monday morning: I raced wheel to wheel against Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton.

Hamilton was the star attraction at the Barbados Festival of Speed last weekend, turning a few laps of the Bushy Park circuit aboard one of Mercedes’ V8-powered F1 cars from 2013.

After thrilling the crowd with some noisy burnouts, Hamilton went head to head around the track against British Superbike Chamiponship racer Stuart Easton aboard a race-spec Yamaha R1M.

But the F1 demo wasn’t the end of his seat time for the day.

Going back to his roots, the reigning F1 champ hopped in a go kart and took on local youngsters from the Barbados Karting Association in a race.

Having combined a nice little holiday in with his Festival appearance, it will be a refreshed and relaxed Hamilton that will head to this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix hoping to turn his horror 2016 season around.

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