The seven-time champion celebrates his first victory in 945 days
British Grand Prix victorywould secure his maiden success on home soil but he was left exposed by his flat-footed McLaren team in the changeable conditions.
Hamilton rolled back the years over the remaining dozen laps to take his first victory since the penultimate round of the 2021 campaign in Saudi Arabia.“Get in there, Lewis,” yelled Hamilton’s race engineer, Peter Bonnington. “You are the man, you are the man! I have been waiting for this.” But the rain took its toll on the circuit with both Hamilton and Russell running off the track at the beginning of lap 19 with Norris moving ahead of Russell at Copse and then Hamilton heading into Abbey at the start of lap 20.
With the rain worsening, Verstappen rolled the strategy dice to move to the intermediate tyres. Remarkably, he was five seconds faster than his rivals in the second sector with Norris, Hamilton and Russell immediately switching to the wet rubber.As McLaren serviced Norris, Piastri was left out on dry tyres and his afternoon as a contender was over.
Norris was left out on old intermediate tyres and when he stopped at the end of lap 40 his lead had been wiped out with Hamilton swooping into first place.
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