Lewis Hamilton holds off Max Verstappen to end F1 win drought in epic British GP
Lewis Hamilton fend🐟s off late Max Verstappen charge to end win F1 drought in British Grand Prix epic♕.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton ended a two-and-a-half-year wait for an F1 victory by claiming a r⭕ecord ninth win in an epic wet-dr🐼y British Grand Prix.
945 d🔴ays 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 Max Verstappen to the win.
Hamilton moved into the lead on Lap 40 following a sloꦛw pit-stop for race leader Lando Norris, who overshot hi🙈s 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 overtaken four laps from the end, with the Red Bul༺l driver breezing pasꦍt before Stowe.
Verstappen w⛎as catching 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 most🙈 wins of a driver at a single circuit.
Hamilton was visibly emotional after the race and was heard crying over team ra🔯dio.
"I can't stop crying!," Hamilton said in parc ferme. "Since 2021, just every day, getting up, trying to figh🐓t, 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 here at the British Grand Prix with this team. So I wanted to win this so much for the🧸m, because I love them, I appreciate them so much, all the hard work they've been putting in all over these years.
"I’m forever grateful to everyone in this team, everyone at Mercedes, and all of our partners. And o🐬therwise, to all our inc💟redible fans, I could 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 thirꦐd, ahead of McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri, 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 Sainജz took fifth ahead of 𝔉Nico Hulkenberg, who claimed an excellent sixth for Haas.
The Aston Martin duo of Lance Stroll and Fernando Alonso came home se💙venth✅ and eighth, with 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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