@Max33Verstappen scores sixth consecutive victory ahead of @LandoNorris. #F1 #BritishGP

Verstappen British GP Victory – Red Bull’s Max Verstappen took his sixth consecutive victory at the British GP and ahead of McLaren’s Lando Norris and Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton who completed the final podium places at their home Grands Prix.

 

 

When the 52-lap British GP began, McLaren’s Norris got a solid jump over pole-sitter Verstappen into the first corner to take P1, whilst the other MCL60 entry of Piastri battled the Dutchman for second place, but the Dutchman held off the Australian at Copse to remain in second place.

 

At the end of the opening tour, Norris was 0.704 seconds clear of Verstappen with Piastri third, Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc fourth and Mercedes’ George Russell completing the top five.

 

In the battle for the lead on lap five, Verstappen reclaimed the lead with DRS assistance and dived on the inside of Norris on the Wellington Straight into Brooklands to make the move stick.

 

Behind them Leclerc covered Russell down the Hangar Straight in the fight for fourth.

 

On the sixth lap, Mercedes’ Sir Lewis Hamilton made his way by Fernando Alonso’s Aston Martin with DRS down the Wellington Straight and overtook the AMR 23 entry on the inside of Brooklands to take seventh place.

 

On lap 10, Verstappen was 0.928 seconds clear of Norris with Piastri holding third, Leclerc fourth and Russell rounding out the top five.

 

On lap 11, Verstappen received over the radio that they’re expecting “lightish rain” in a few minutes meanwhile Alpine’s Esteban Ocon was the first retiree of the Grand Prix and parked it in-front of the team garage.

 

On the 12^th lap, Red Bull’s Sergio Perez made up another two places to be in 11^th place in his recovery drive from 16^th on the grid after another horrid qualifying session.

 

The 15^th tour saw race-leader Verstappen increase his gap to Norris to over three seconds, with Piastri sitting third, Leclerc fourth whilst Russell was very close behind the Ferrari in fifth.

 

On the 16^th lap, Perez made his way by Williams Racing’s Alexander Albon to move into the top ten.

 

Lap 19 saw Leclerc the first of the top five to pit for a set of the C1 white-branded harder tyres and emerged in 12^th place behind Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll.

 

On lap 20, Verstappen’s lead to Norris was up to 4.398 seconds with Piastri third, Russell fourth and Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz completing the top five.

 

Lap 23 saw Hamilton closing in on Sainz in the battle for fifth place.

 

On the 26^th tour, Leclerc on his fresher set of hards, finally found his way by Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll to take 11^th place.

 

On lap 27, the other SF-23 entry of Sainz pitted from fifth for a fresh set of hards and came out in 12^th place behind Stroll.

 

Mercedes’ Russell pitted from fourth and put on a set of mediums and emerged behind Leclerc in ninth place.

 

Piastri followed suit on lap 30 for a fresh set of hards and came out in sixth place behind Alpine’s Pierre Gasly meanwhile Sainz blasted his way ahead of Stroll to grab 10^th.

 

Lap 31 saw Russell overtake Leclerc around the outside of Luffield to snatch eighth place from the Ferrari.

 

With 20 tours remaining, Verstappen was 9.620 seconds ahead od Norris with Hamilton third, Alonso fourth and McLaren’s Piastri rounding out the top five.

 

The virtual safety car was deployed on lap 22 after Haas F1 Team’s Kevin Magnussen suffered an engine failure and parked his VF-23 racer on the Wellington Straight.

 

Albon and Leclerc both pitted to take advantage of the VSC and emerged in eighth and ninth respectively.

 

On lap 34, it saw the full safety car deployed as the front runners Verstappen, Norris, Hamilton and Alonso all stop.

 

The order behind the safety car was Verstappen in the lead with Norris second, Hamilton up into third, Piastri fourth and Russell completing the top five.

 

When the race went green on lap 39, Verstappen made a solid jump as Hamilton was on the tail of Norris with Russell right behind Piastri.

 

The battle of the Brits saw Norris cover Hamilton around Brooklands into Luffield and fended off the Mercedes through Copse to hold second.

 

Lap 40 saw Verstappen over 2.157 seconds over Norris with Hamilton third, Piastri fourth and Russell fifth.

 

Hamilton once again got a solid slipstream and made a late dive on Norris into Brooklands and was side-by-side of the McLaren through Luffield before the straight-line speed of the MCL60 managed to keep the Mercedes at bay as they reached Copse.

 

With ten tours remaining Verstappen was 2.739 clear of Norris with Hamilton third, Hamilton fourth and Piastri rounding out the top five runners.

 

At the end of lap 43, Perez made his way by Sainz into seventh place, whilst Albon overtook the latter into the opening corner and then Sainz fell behind his Ferrari team-mate Leclerc and lost three places in the space of a lap.

 

Verstappen crossed the line to take the British GP victory by 3.375 seconds over Norris with Hamilton completing the podium.

 

The win sees Verstappen extend his Driver’s Championship lead to 99 points over team-mate Perez.

 

Piastri placed fourth in the other MCL60 entry and in-front of Russell who was fifth and Perez who recovered to finish sixth.

 

Alonso fended off Albon to finish seventh as the Ferrari pairing of Leclerc and Sainz came home in ninth and tenth respectively.

 

Williams Racing’s Logan Sargeant came home outside the top 10 in 11^th place and in-front of Alfa Romeo’s Valtteri Bottas who took 12^th and Haas F1 Team’s Nico Hulkenberg finished 13^th in the classification.

 

Stroll after being hit with a five-second time penalty for causing a collision and ending Gasly’s race wound up 14^th and ahead of Alfa Romeo’s Zhou Guanyu who placed 15^th and the two AlphaTauri entries of Yuki Tsunoda and Nyck de Vries who ended the Grand Prix in 16^th and 17^th respectively.

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2023 British GP – The Top Three

 

 

2023 British GP Winner – Max Verstappen, #1, Oracle Red Bull Racing – Honda-RBPT, RB19:

“We had a terrible start, so we need to look into why that was. “But after that both McLarens at the beginning were super quick. It took a few laps to pass them and everything after that was quite alright.”

 

2^nd Place – Lando Norris, #4, McLaren Formula 1 Team-Mercedes, MCL60, +3.375:

“I brought the fight to Max for as long as possible. It’s a long, lonely race when you’re in the middle. But it’s amazing.”

 

3^rd Place – Lewis Hamilton, #44, Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team, F1 W14, +5.049:

“To start seventh and come third is a mega job. Big thank you to my team. It continues to be an honour to race and represent all of you.”

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Formula 1 Aramco British Grand Prix 2023 Race Results Classification (52 Laps)

 

POS	NO	DRIVER	CAR	LAPS	TIME/RETIRED	PTS
1	1	Max Verstappen	RED BULL RACING HONDA RBPT	52	1:25:16.938	26
2	4	Lando Norris	MCLAREN MERCEDES	52	+3.798s	18
3	44	Lewis Hamilton	MERCEDES	52	+6.783s	15
4	81	Oscar Piastri	MCLAREN MERCEDES	52	+7.776s	12
5	63	George Russell	MERCEDES	52	+11.206s	10
6	11	Sergio Perez	RED BULL RACING HONDA RBPT	52	+12.882s	8
7	14	Fernando Alonso	ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES	52	+17.193s	6
8	23	Alexander Albon	WILLIAMS MERCEDES	52	+17.878s	4
9	16	Charles Leclerc	FERRARI	52	+18.689s	2
10	55	Carlos Sainz	FERRARI	52	+19.448s	1
11	2	Logan Sargeant	WILLIAMS MERCEDES	52	+23.632s	0
12	77	Valtteri Bottas	ALFA ROMEO FERRARI	52	+25.830s	0
13	27	Nico Hulkenberg	HAAS FERRARI	52	+26.663s	0
14	18	Lance Stroll	ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES	52	+27.483s	0
15	24	Zhou Guanyu	ALFA ROMEO FERRARI	52	+29.820s	0
16	22	Yuki Tsunoda	ALPHATAURI HONDA RBPT	52	+31.225s	0
17	21	Nyck De Vries	ALPHATAURI HONDA RBPT	52	+33.128s	0
18	10	Pierre Gasly	ALPINE RENAULT	46	DNF	0
NC	20	Kevin Magnussen	HAAS FERRARI	31	DNF	0
NC	31	Esteban Ocon	ALPINE RENAULT	9	DNF	0

* Provisional results. Note – Verstappen scored an additional point for setting the fastest lap of the race.

https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/2023/races/1214/great-britain/race-result.html

 

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Round 12 of the 2023 FIA Formula One World Championship returns to the Hungaroring in Budapest, Mogyorod, Hungary for the Formula 1 Qatar Airways Hungarian Grand Prix 2023 from Friday July 21-Sunday July 23.

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