Many people find gymnasiums disagreeable, and, indeed, there are few more dispiriting sounds than the whine of treadmill rollers set to the rhythmic backbeat of feet clonk-clonking on the rolling road to nowhere. And yet Lance Stroll is grinning impishly as he warms up on one of these machines in the state-of-the-art Williams fitness centre, taking in the vista of bucolic Oxfordshire countryside framed by the room's wide double-glazed windows.
We'll soon see whether he manages to keep smiling...
Autosport's sister publication F1 Racing has dropped by to see how Williams has been preparing its new charge, the 2016 Formula 3 European champion, for the rigours of competition in Formula 1. Faced with a panoply of unknowns, the all-new, wide-tyred, high-downforce tech formula is expected to slash lap times, so Williams has left nothing to chance.