One part AMG C63. One part Mercedes World UK’s test track. One part Lewis Hamilton. Garnish with Croatian tourists and serve sideways. Voila, a Hamilton hot lap.

There are few people who could make drifting a C63 at full noise look easy, but here we have Hamilton doing exactly that.

While the three-time world champ is clearly at home behind the wheel, the three extra humans (with a camera each) aren’t a normal fixture for one of Hamilton’s drives.

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The sounds his passengers make just prior to this suggest that they think Hamilton has already unleashed the full potential of the German bent-eight.

At that point, he still only has one hand on the wheel.

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Hamilton, still many times more relaxed than his in-car company, flicks the back-end out a few more times before slowing to a stop… and proceeding to get a couple of tasty donuts in.

He’s used to travelling at much higher speeds, so the F1 champ probably felt like this was a rather tranquil drive, but we have to give credit where credit is due, Lewis Hamilton certainly put last year’s PCOTY 2nd-place-getter to its proper use.

And he even left the smoke and tyre marks to prove it.