IT SEEMS EVERYONE loves Lewis Hamilton.

Judging from the crowd at Paragon at a Mercedes-Benz event, his fans seemingly run the entire gamut, cutting across social, political and economic strata.

From adults, starry-eyed children to an elderly woman shoving us aside with her umbrella so she could get a better view of the chap that everyone seemed to be fussing over.

The current world champion arrived fashionably late but surprisingly bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, given that he had just stepped off a transcontinental flight several hours before.

He also behaved graciously and forthcoming, even when he had to field some rather tricky questions, like how badly he wanted to win this weekend.

The defending world champion also had to endure many strange things at the event like having to sign replica helmets, which would have been perfectly normal, if it wasn’t a Jenson Button helmet.

The highlight of the evening, especially for one young fan who professed to have waited two hours for Lewis to appear, was the autograph signing session.

The people who responded most quickly to him signing autographs weren’t the fans, they were journalists, ever vigilant and never missing a golden photo opportunity when they see one.

The champ though, didn’t hang around for long for long and was whisked away to another event far too soon, leaving some fans visibly crestfallen they couldn’t get his autograph.

The disappointed fans no doubt will still cheer his run this weekend wih the aforementioned umbrella auntie still as bemused as she was at the start possibly wondering why everyone was still screaming even after that strange fellow came and left so soon.