Marko Hanželic
In unusually hot Silverstone, where the atmospheric temperature rose above 30 degrees asphalt over 50 degrees Celsius, took care of the extra fever 140 thousand fans in the stands, which were able to watch the real drama from the start.
There were no major incidents at the start, Verstappen drove in the first bend before Hamilton, which, however, put more and more pressure on the current leader in the overall standings. Dutchman he managed to stay ahead of the British a few times with very late braking until they were in a turn Copse collided and is Verstappen catapulted v safety fence. Team boss Red Bull, Christian horner, confirmed that he was doing so Verstappen suffered a deceleration of 51 G.
After a standing start again, it is Leclerc managed to keep the lead, Hamilton however, he got it from the race management ten-second penalty due to causing an accident in the first round. After the start of the race again, he severely damaged his ranking with a pirouette Sebastian Vettel, which spun at the turn Woodcote and fell to last place.
Dutchman visibly shaken, he emerged from the wreckage, which had been called a few moments before Red Bull RB16, Hamilton he was able to continue, but it flared up soon after red flagthat workers along the line were able to remove Verstappn race car and repair the guardrail. He became the new leader Charles Leclerc, before Hamilton in Bottas.
Speaking of last place, let’s mention that he is the second driver of the team Red Bull, Sergio Perez, started from the pits due to his pirouette yesterday, but by the twelfth round he had already managed to break close to the points, as he was just behind Gasly in twelfth place before turning into the pits. It's on top Charles Leclerc began to sue over drive unit problems, but soon calmed down when an engineer told him he had to change the setting on the steering wheel.
While the first racers decided to stop at the pits in twentieth round. Among them we mention Sebastian Vettl, Sergio Perez in Kimi Räikkönen, was the first of the leading pair to box Lewis Hamilton, who had previously reported to the pits that the front left tire was completely worn out. Before changing wheels, he is British "Stayed" self ten-second penalty. Leclerc he turned into the pits three laps later, and his stop is unlike Sainz's round before, took place without complications. With the Spaniard, the mechanics had a problem with by screwing the front left wheel. A similar thing happened before Land Norris, who also lost at least five seconds at the expense of trouble changing the bike.
It's a round later Hamilton in a bend Copse whistled past Norris (this time it was all clean), and nine laps later it is after the intervention from the pits Bottas had to hand over the post to a teammate without a fight. Ten laps before the end of the race, the Briton was just under nine seconds behind Monaco v Ferrari.
From lap to lap, the black race car melted the advantage of red and three laps before the end is Hamilton za Leclerc lagged less than a second, got it in DRS window and (again) overtook him in the Copse bend and celebrated for the eighth time in his career in the home race and thus achieved his 99th career victory. Second place eventually went to him Leclerc, third Valtteri Bottas. The fastest lap is at the end Hamilton "Stole" Perez, who otherwise finished in 16th place, having been in the pits as many as four times. They both finished in fourth and fifth place McLaren (Norris before Ricciard), and that points came up again Sainz, Stroll, Or with in tsunoda.
Results - Grand Prix of Great Britain
