EXCLUSIVE BY JONATHAN McEVOY: It had all seemed so perfect only a week before. It was Clay Day at the Horner's manor in Oxfordshire. A shoot. The sun was shining.
JONATHAN MCEVOY AT SILVERSTONE: Lando Norris called it a dream come true as he joined the royalty of national motor racing by winning the British Grand Prix.
JONATHAN MCEVOY AT SILVERSTONE: An opportunity of a British lifetime opened itself to Lando Norris in the most unexpected manner in a rain-punctuated race.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY JONATHAN McEVOY: Speculation has raged for months that the quadruple world champion might jump ship to Mercedes, most likely partnering George Russell.
Heading into the Canadian GP- and speaking before he qualified a distant seventh - he is guarded and, deep down, would rather be undisturbed as he watches the US Open golf on his phone.
As I stood in the queue at the fishmonger on the town square close to my home in the South of France yesterday, he was cutting the head off a sea bream with deft strokes of his razor-sharp knife.
JONATHAN MCEVOY IN BARCELONA: Lando Norris shipped seven points in his world championship fight as an unflappable Oscar Piastri won the Spanish Grand Prix from pole.
JONATHAN McEVOY: Lewis Hamilton should part company with Riccardo Adami, his strangely faltering race engineer, now. Nothing will be served by persevering with patient loyalty.
JONATHAN MCEVOY IN MONACO: Lando Norris won the Monaco Grand Prix for the first time in his career as he led the race from start to finish in the Principality.
JONATHAN MCEVOY: Lewis Hamilton crashed out of practice for the Monaco Grand Prix at 175mph - giving his Ferrari team two-and-a-half hours to piece his car back together.