FORMULA 1

LCH TAKES HIS SEVENTH GRAND PRIX WIN AT SILVERSTONE DESPITE TYRE FAILURE!! BOTAS NOT SO LUCKY.

LCH was leading comfortably, when his left-front tyre delaminated on the final lap and he had to drag his car around on three wheels to beat Red Bull’s Max Verstappen.

There was drama before the start when Nico Hulkenberg, subbing for the Covid-positive Sergio Perez at Racing Point, suffered a technical problem and couldn’t start the race when the power unit refused to start up.

Hamilton held off his faster-starting teammate Valtteri Bottas into the first corner, as Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc duelled over third behind them. Verstappen made a move stick into Brooklands to claim the place.

A safety car was required at the end of the opening lap, as Red Bull’s Alex Albon punted the Haas of Kevin Magnussen into a spin at the final corner, and the latter’s car hit the tyrewall and its left-front corner was torn off. Albon was given a 5s time penalty for causing the collision.

The race resumed, again, at the end of lap 18 with Hamilton and Bottas easily saying goodbye to Verstappen and Leclerc with Sainz, Ricciardo and Norris all over the back of Grosjean. Norris tried to attack Ricciardo, who in turn had a go at Sainz with Norris making his move stick and even trying to follow it up with one on his McLaren team-mate.

Race Control confirmed a five-second time penalty for Albon, who was up to 14th place, for causing the earlier collision with Magnussen