Lewis Hamilton holds off Max Verstappen to end F1 win drought in epic British GP
Lewis Hamilton fends off late Max Verstappen chaওrge to end win F1 drought in British G🦩rand 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 vict🔯ory by claiming a record ninth win in an epic wet-dry B🐭ritish Grand Prix.
945 days after his last F1 victory at the 2021 Saudi A﷽rabian Grand Prix, Hamilton ca🍸pitalised 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 slow pit-stop for race leader Lando Norris, who overshot his pit box when꧙ 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 Bull 🃏driver breeziﷺng past before Stowe.
Verstappen was catching Hamilton in a tense final few laps but th﷽e seven-time world champion held on to cross the line 1.4 seconds ahead of his fie💞rce 2021 title rival.
The victory is Hamilton's ninth at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone and sets a n♏ew record for the most wiไns of a driver at a single circuit.
Hamilton was visibly emotional after the ra𝐆ce and🍃 was heard crying over team radio.
"I can't stop crying!," Hamilton said in parc ferme. "Since 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. 🧜ꦑ;
"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 putting 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. There's just no greater feeling as to finish at the front here."
Norris completed the podium in third, ahead of McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri, wꩵhose 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 fifth ahead of Nico Hulkenberg, who claimed an excellen✨t sixth for Haas.
The Aston Martin duo of Lance Stroll and 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 tol𝓡d him to retire his car on Lap ❀34 with a suspected water leak.
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