VIDEO: First footage emerges of Hamilton-Rossi ride swap
A first video has emerged showing Lewisꦡ 🌺Hamilton and Valentino Rossi on-track during their ride swap at Valencia earlier this week.
Six-time Formula 1 world champion Hamilton and nine-time motorcycle world champion Rossi took part in a long-awaited crossover event at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in ꩲValencia on Monday, as arranged by mutual sponsor Monster Energy.

A first video has emerged showing Lewis Hamilton and Valentino Rossi on-track during their ride swap a✨t Valencia earlier this week.
Six-time Formula 1 world champion Ham♏ilton and nine-time motorcycle world champion Rossi took part in a long-awaited crossover event at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia on Monday, as arr💫anged by mutual sponsor Monster Energy.
The event saw Hamilton continue to add to his growing experience on two wheels - coming one year on from a Superbike teಞst at Jerez - as he sampled a MotoGP bike, while Rossi completed his first F1 test in over nine years, driving the 2017-spec Mercedes W08 car.
A vide🙈o edit 🥃has now emerged online showing some highlights of the test.
Sneak peek of Lewis-Valentino swap---via lorenzofaraoni7 ౠ
— Lewis Updates (@LH44updates)
The video shows the Me𝔍rcedes car decked out with Rossi's famous #46, styled in the same fashion, with his 'The Doctor' graphic also emblazoned on the rear of the steering wheel.
Hamilton can be seen wearing an all-black Monster-sponsored race suit, with his #44 placed on the front of the bike whileဣ Rossi is seen lapping alongside the Mercedes F1 driver on his Yamaha M1 MotoGP bike.
A later shot shows the pair next to each other with Rossi in the Mercedes and Hamilton on the Yamaha before sharing an embrace at the end of the t✃est.
Hamilton posted on Instagram earlier today that the test had gone by with "no troubles at all" and that it was "the 𒉰best day ever", with footage from official channels expected to follow 𓆏in the near future.