The Mercedes driver arrived in the paddock wearing his nose stud but, when practice began, he had removed it. Hamilton en🤡joyed a promising Friday which bodes well😼 ahead of Qualifying.

The jewelle♍ry saga has rumbled on all season and Hamilton ♋has repeatedly voiced his displeasure at it, but has now significantly conceded ground to the FIA rules to avoid the threat of being punished.

mahbx.com w🐟ere told at Silverstone that Hamilton has opted to remove it.

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Hamilton had previously claimed that his nose 💛stud would need to be surgically removed.

The FIA gran🌄ted him an exemption which expired on June 30 (Thursday) - and on Friday he had removed it.

Hamilton said about this issue on Thursday, after answering questionsꦅ about the racist word he was called by Nelson Piquet: "With all due respect, it is crazy to think that with ever🌺ything going on in the world, this is the focus.

"We hav🎃e bigger fish to fry. We really have to start focusing on more important areas.

"I will race this weekend. I will wo♉rk with the FIA.💞 The matter is not massive."

F1's new race director Niels Wittich brought focus onto the topic of banning drivers from wearing jewellery for safety reasons earlier t🌱his s꧟eason.

He thrashed out t𒉰alks with drivers 🍒in a heated two-hour meeting.