Sir Lewis Hamilton sparks romance rumours with award-winning singer at F1
The chart-topping singer, 27, closed the show at Silverstone with an unforgettable performance, playing a catalogue of hits such as Prada and Escapism.
Speaking to the crowd on the main stage at Silverstone after her performance, Lewis, 40, had nothing but kind words for the award-winning star, saying: 'Raye is the first concert I've been to after a race and she was great.
'She was the first concert I've been to at Silverstone actually so it was great to see her wasn't it.
'It's so great that acts can come here now. When I was watching last night I was like it's incredible to perform here the crowd were great.'
A source added to MailOnline that Lewis was 'loving' Raye's performance, adding: 'I saw Lewis at the side of the stage last night and he was loving Raye, I was shocked to see him there with qualifying coming up but he staying for the whole set and really showed his support to her.'
Earlier in the week Lewis marked the grand opening of a racing-inspired pop-up event with Ferrari to celebrate the second year of partnership between Scuderia Ferrari HP and Peroni Nastro Azzurro 0.0%.
At the star-studded event, hosted by presenter Nick Grimshaw, Lewis opened up on his F1 diet, revealing his favourite restaurant as popular chain Dishoom.
'I love spicy food. Indian is my favourite. I had a Dishoom the other day,' he added, before revealing it'll also be his post-race meal on Sunday.
Sir Lewis also remarked on the culture shock he experienced having switched from driving for McLaren and Mercedes, to now spending most of his time in Italy with Ferrari.
'The Brits loved curry, my British team they would always have a curry so like on Sunday morning when they'd come into the race they'd literally stink, they all smelled of curry in the morning, garlic was just in our engineering room all the time,' he said.
'They weren't passionate about food otherwise. Italians? Oh my God. There's literally a scheduled time in the day, lunch they can never, ever miss. More Trending
'Sometimes I go into the garage to talk to my mechanics, I'm like, where is everyone? They're at lunch.
'I think they're the only team that does that!'
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