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Hamilton's haunting Halloween look

Yesterday was Halloween, the day celebrated all over the world by spooky goings on and everyone playing trick or treat surprises on their friends and family.

Naturally Formula 1 drivers are no exception to this sort of thing - especially since they'd just been in Mexico City in time for the annual Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations on Saturday evening.

It looks like newly crowned 2018 world champion Lewis Hamilton picked up a ghostly momento of his momentous weekend, and took home with him this skull mask which proved just the thing to wear for Halloween.

We have to admit, it looks pretty freaky to us! There's a touch of the Hannibal Lector in there as well as the skeleton, don't you think?

Mexican Grand Prix - © XPB

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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.