Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton says his “heart nearly stopped” when he suffered aཧ puncture on the final l💝ap of the British Grand Prix.

Hamilton looked on course to record a routine seventh win at Silverstone before both Mercedes drivers suffered tyre delaminations in a dramatic conclusion to the🦋 🅘race.

Bottas suffered a front-left puncture with three laps to go, while Hamilton sustained a near-identical bl♓ow-out on the final tour as he came out of Luffield.

Remarkably, Hamilton crawled home to take th🌌e chequered flag ahead of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen by five seconds, having held a 32-second advantage on the final lap after Red Bull elected to stop Verstappen fo✅llowing Bottas’ puncture.

“Up until that last lap, everything♚ was relatively smooth sailing," Hamilton ex𓆉plained.

"The tyres felt great. Valtte♌ri wa🎃s really pushing incredibly hard, and I was doing some management of that tyre and he looked like he wasn't doing any.

"When I heard that his tyre went I was justꦚ looking at mine and everything seemed fine. The car was still turning. No problem. So, I was thinking maybe it's OK.

"T🐻hose last few laps, I started to back off and then down the straight, it jusꦯt deflated. I just noticed the shape just shift a little bit.

“That was definitely a heart-in-the-mouth kind of feeling, bec🥃ause I wasn't quite sure if it had gone down until I hit the 🎀brakes, and you could see the tyre was falling off the rim.

"Then just driving it, trying to keep the speed up, because sometimes it will fly off and break the wing and all these different things. Oh my God, I was just praying to try and get around and 🌠not be too slow.

"I nearly didn't get around the last two corners, but thank God we did. [I] really owe it to the team. I think ultimately maybe we should have stopped towards the end once we saw the delami🌌nations."

Hamilton was kept up to date on the gap to Verstapp𓂃en by his race enginee𝓡r Pete Bonnington throughout the final lap. The six-times world champion insisted he was “really chilled” despite the unfolding drama but admitted his “heart nearly stopped”.

"You may or may not be surprised, but I was real♋ly chilled for some reason at the end," Hamilt🔯on said.

"Bono was giving me the the information of the gap. I think it was 30 seconds at one stage and it was coming down quite quickly, and in 🦂my mind I'm thinking 'O💛K, how far is it to the end of the lap?'

"But the car seemed to turn okay through Maggots and Becketts, thankfully. I got to [Turn] 15 and that's where it really was a bit of a struggle, and I could hear the gap ♑coming down from 19 to 10.

"So I thought I would just give it full gas out of 15 down to 16, and then the thing wasn't stopping. I got to the corner, a lot of understeer and I heard him go '9, 8, 7' - and I was like, just get back on the power and try to get the thinꦛg to turn.

"Oh my god. I've definitely never experienced anything 💯like that on the last lap. And my heart definitely probably nearly stopped. I think that's pro🥃bably how cool I was, because my heart nearly stopped."