Lewis Hamilton holds off Max Verstappen to end F1 win drought in epic British GP
Lewis Hamilton fends off late Max Verstappen charge to en♈d win F1 drough♈t in British Grand Prix epic.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton ended a two-and-a-half-year wait for an F1 victoryﷺ by claiming a record ninth win in an epicꦦ wet-dry British Grand Prix.
945 days after his last F1 victory at the 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, Hamilton capitalised on a crazy race interrupted by multiple rain showers to beat Maওx Verstappen to the win.
Hamilton moved into the lead on Lap🦄 40 following a slow pit-stop for race leader Lando Norris, who oversh♏ot his pit box when he stopped a lap later than his rivals to switch onto slicks for the closing stages.
Norris was caught by a charging Verstappen and was overt♒aken four laps from the en🐬d, with the Red Bull driver breezing past before Stowe.
Verstappen was catchꦡing Hamilton in a tense final few laps but the seven-time world champion held on to cross the line 1.4 seconds ahead of his fierce 2021 title rival.
The victory is Hamilton's ninth at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone and sets a new record for the m🔴ost wins of a driver at a single circuit.
Hamilton was visibly emotional after the race and was heard crying over team radio.&n🐬b♌sp;
"I can't stop crying!," Hamilton s🐻aid in parc ferme. "Sin🌠ce 2021, just every day, getting up, trying to fight, to train, to put my mind to the task, and work as hard as I can with this amazing team.
"And this is my last race her💝e at the British Grand Prix with this team. So I wanted to win this so much for them, because I love them, I appreciate them so much, all the hard work they've been puttiꦏng in all over these years.
"I’m forever grateful to everyone in this team, everyone at Mercedes, and all of our partners. And otherwise, to all our incredible fans, I cou✃ld see you lap by lap as I was coming around. There's just no greater feeling as to finish at the front here."
Norris completed the podium in third, ahead of McLaren teammate Oscar Pia꧂stri, whose own chances of victory were ruined when he was kept out too long on dry tyres when the first rain cell arrived.
Ferrari's Carlos Sainz𒆙 took fifth ahead of Nico Hulkenberg, who claimed an excellent sixth for Haas.
The Aston Martin duo of Lance Stroll and Fernando Alonso 🦩came home seventh and eighth, wi𒆙th Alex Albon and Yuki Tsunoda completing the top-10 for Williams and RB.
Polesitter George Russell suffered a heartbreaking DNF when Mercedes told 🌊him to retire his car on Lap 34 with a suspected water leak.
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