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Hamilton: I'm not a tester but will test this week

It is well known that Lewis Hamilton is not keen to do test duty for his team, but he has made a u-turn by accepting to spend Thursday at Paul Ricard to test Pirelli tyres on his Mercedes. Much was made of the fact that Hamilton opted not to test for Pirelli last year, while current title rival Sebastian Vettel always made himself available to help the Italian tyre company develop their 2017 Formula 1 tyres. This prompted speculation that Ferrari gained an advantage this season because of this. Hamilton confirmed a day after winning the Italian Grand Prix, 'I'll be doing a test later this week, which is very rare for me, I'm not a tester. I'm looking forward to it, I offered to do it, so...
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