Lewis Hamilton holds off Max Verstappen to end F1 win drought in epic British GP
Lewis Hamilton fends off late Max Verstappen charge to end win F1 drღought 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 record ninth win in an epic 🔜wet-dry British Grand Prix.&nbไsp;
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 Max Verstappe🔯n to the win.
Hamilton moved into the lead on Lap 40 following a slow pit-s🌠top for race leader Lando Norris, who overshot his pit box when he stopped a lap later than his rivals to switch onto slicks for the closing st🌺ages.
Norris was caught by a charging Verstappen and was overtaken four laps from the end, with the Red Bull driver breezin✱g past before Stowe.
Verstappen was 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 🍨circ📖uit.
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, jౠust 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 here 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 thജey've been pꦕutting 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 could see you lap by lap as I was coming around. Ther📖e's 𝔍just no greater feeling as to finish at the front here."
Norris completed tღhe podium in third, ahead of McL꧃aren 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 Sainz took fi🎃fth ahead of Nico Hulkenberg, who claimed an excellent sixth for Haas.
The Aston Martin duo of Lance Stroll an🍸d Fernando Alonso came home seventh 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 su🍰spected water leak.
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