Verstappen cruises to victory in the British Grand Prix

There were 160,000 fans astatine Silverstone for the contention connected Sunday

Max Verstappen cruised to triumph successful the British Grand Prix for his sixth triumph successful a enactment and a record-equalling 11th consecutive triumph for Red Bull.

Verstappen's eighth triumph successful 10 races this twelvemonth brought Red Bull level with the grounds McLaren established successful their historical 1988 play with Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost.

Oscar Piastri made it a large time for McLaren with 4th up of George Russell's Mercedes.

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Verstappen was untouchable retired front, erstwhile helium had repassed Norris for the pb connected thigh 5 aft the McLaren jumped up erstwhile the satellite champion suffered excessively overmuch wheelspin astatine the start.

But the contention came live aft the information car, called erstwhile Kevin Magnussen's Haas caught occurrence down the Wellington straight.

Divergent tyre choices introduced jeopardy and intrigue for everyone other implicit the last 14 laps.

Norris and Piastri had looked connected people for a treble podium for McLaren, who introduced a large upgrade for Norris to large effect astatine the past contention successful Austria and gave it to Piastri astatine Silverstone arsenic well.

But the information car changed everything and gave Hamilton a accidental not lone to leap up of Piastri but besides to endanger Norris briefly.

The seven-time champion drove steadily successful the opening laps, biding his clip erstwhile helium had re-passed Fernando Alonso's Aston Martin, which overtook him connected the archetypal lap, successful seventh place.

He moved up arsenic the pit stops started to hap up of him, with archetypal Charles Leclerc pitting his Ferrari retired of 4th place, followed by the 2nd Ferrari of Carlos Sainz, the Mercedes of George Russell and Piastri.

Hamilton past benefited from stopping nether the information car, fitting brushed tyres alternatively than the hards chosen by McLaren for some their cars

Norris expressed implicit the vigor his fears that helium would conflict to clasp Hamilton back, but helium weathered an aboriginal tempest aft the restart with aplomb and past edged distant to consolidate his 2nd place.

Piastri, besides fitted with hard tyres astatine his pit stop, was arsenic impressive, and arsenic Hamilton dropped distant from Norris, the Mercedes came nether unit from the Australian rookie, who crossed the enactment little than a 2nd behind.

Russell was the lone antheral successful the apical 10 to take brushed tyres for the commencement alternatively than mediums, and jumped up a spot astatine the commencement to endanger Leclerc for 4th place.

But helium mislaid retired by stopping earlier the information car and came location 5th arsenic Sergio Perez recovered from yet different mediocre qualifying league to decorativeness sixth from 15th connected the grid.

Ferrari's time crumbled aft a promising start. Leclerc had nary gait successful the archetypal portion of the race, made an aboriginal halt for hards and past came successful again nether the information car for mediums.

But helium again struggled and mislaid eighth spot to the awesome Williams of Alex Albon, who chose brushed tyres astatine the information car, successful the closing laps.

Sainz, who was near connected hard tyres erstwhile helium did not halt nether the information car, mislaid 3 places successful a fewer corners arsenic Perez, Leclerc and Albon each passed him aft the restart, trailed successful a disappointing 10th.