With the excitement of how the first four races had finished, we were all looking forward to the first European race of the season and heading to Barcelona!

The Formula 1 season is almost upon us, but will it be another procession for Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes?

Guests arrived in Dubai for the season finale on Thursday all in very good spirits after Hamilton clinched the championship in Mexico a few weeks earlier.

In the end, the final Grand Prix was a slight anticlimax: Lewis Hamilton, whose brilliance has soared to new heights this year, could only finish a meek second as his team-mate Valtteri Bottas cruised to victory in Abu Dhabi. 

As the tension was mounting with only four races left of the season and thoughts of my favourite driver (Lewis) only a few points away from clenching his fourth F1 title, I made my way to London in time for Gullivers' first ever escorted US Grand