He went down the inside of the Red Bull and as Verstappen turned in the Mercedes AMG clipped the right-rear wheel of the Dutchman’s car. Verstappen was sent off track at high speed and he hit the tyre barriers hard, severely damaging his car.
Fortunately, Verstappen was able to climb out of his wrecked car and was taken to the medical centre and later to a nearby hospital for precautionary checks. With the tyre barrier severely damaged the race was soon red flagged and the race stewards quickly placed the incident under investigation.
Under the red flag, Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was in first place, the Ferrari driver having passed Hamilton on track in the immediate aftermath of the lap one incident.
And after a 35-minute stoppage the cars formed up on the grid once again. When the lights went out, Leclerc made a good getaway from pole position to take the lead ahead of Hamilton, with Valtteri Bottas third ahead of Lando Norris.
At the back, Sergio Pérez took the restart from 19th place on the grid but he was quickly on the march and within a handful of laps he had climbed to 12th-place and was chasing down Pierre Gasly, though his progress was halted as he joined a DRS train containing 10th-placed Kimi Räikkönen and 11th-placed Pierre Gasly.
At the front, meanwhile, Hamilton was handed with a 10-second time penalty by the race stewards.
Leclerc was now experiencing difficulties with his engine and that gave Hamilton hope that he might attack for the lead but the Ferrari driver managed to solve the issues with the aid of his pit wall.
Hamilton then made his way to the pit lane on lap 27. He served his time penalty and then switched to a set of hard tyres and rejoined in fifth place. Leclerc made his stop soon after and he was able to resume in the lead.
Further back, as the pit stops played out, Pérez rose to ninth but once again in a train of cars he was unable to salvage anything better for Red Bull. The result was that Sergio pitted again on lap 39 for another set of mediums and dropped back to P17.
At the front, Hamilton had overcome his penalty with relative ease and he was pushing to catch Leclerc. The Monegasque driver resisted as hard as he could but with two laps remaining Hamilton, armed with more powerfull PU, past to claim the lead and then the race win.
With Hamilton holding fastest and the point associated with it, the gap to Verstappen in the Driver’s standings would have been narrowed to just seven points. Red Bull therefor sacrificed Pérez’s hopes of clawing his way back to the points and pitted the Mexican for soft tyres.
And in the closing moments he grabbed the fastest lap of the race to deny Hamilton and Mercedes. Behind Hamilton and Leclerc, Bottas took third place ahead of Norris, with Daniel Ricciardo fifth in the second McLaren.
Carlos Sainz Jr. fought back from a slow pit stop to finish sixth in the second Ferrari, while Fernando Alonso took seventh place for Alpine. Lance Stroll finished eighth for Aston Martin ahead of Esteban Ocon and the final point was taken by AlphaTauri’s Yuki Tsunoda.
| 2021 BRITISH GRAND PRIX 52 laps, 306.198km., Weather: Sunny |
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| CLASSIFIED: | |||
| P. | DRIVER | TEAM | TIME/GAP |
| 1. | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes AMG | 1h:58:23.284 |
| 2. | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | + 3.871 |
| 3. | Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes AMG | + 11.125 |
| 4. | Lando Norris | McLaren | + 28.573 |
| 5. | Daniel Ricciardo | McLaren | + 42.624 |
| 6. | Carlos Sainz Jr. | Ferrari | + 43.454 |
| 7. | Fernando Alonso | Alpine | + 1:12.093 |
| 8. | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | + 1:14.289 |
| 9. | Esteban Ocon | Alpine | + 1:16.162 |
| 10. | Yuki Tsunoda | AlphaTauri | + 1.22.065 |
| 11. | Pierre Gasly | AlphaTauri | + 1:25.327 |
| 12. | George Russell | Williams | + 1 lap |
| 13. | Antonio Giovinazzi | Alfa Romeo | + 1 lap |
| 14. | Nicholas Latifi | Williams | + 1 lap |
| 15. | Kimi Räikkönen | Alfa Romeo | + 1 lap |
| 16. | Sergio Pérez | Red Bull | + 1 lap |
| 17. | Nikita Mazepin | Haas | + 1 lap |
| 18. | Mick Schumacher | Haas | + 1 lap |
| FASTEST LAP: SERGIO PEREZ - 1: 28.617 | |||
| NOT CLASSIFIED: | |||
| 19. | Sebastian Vettel | Aston Martin | technical |
| 20. | Max Verstappen | Red Bull | collision |
| HYBRID HISTORY - SILVERSTONE 2014 Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes AMG - 2h26:52.094 2015 Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes AMG - 1h31:27.729 2016 Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes AMG - 1h34:55.831 2017 Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes AMG - 1h21:27.430 2018 Sebastian Vettel - Ferrari - 1h27:29.789 2019 Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes AMG - 1h26:52.094 2020 Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes AMG - 1h28:01.283 70 ANNIVERSARY GRAND PRIX 2020 Max Verstappen - Red Bull - 1h19:41.993 2021 Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes AMG - 1h58:23.284 @МкФормула1 - РЕПУБЛИКА МАКЕДОНИЈА @MkFormula1 - REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA |
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| CLASSIFICATION AFTER 10/23 RACES | |||
| DRIVERS: | |||
| 1. | Max Verstappen | 185 | |
| 2. | Lewis Hamilton | 177 | |
| 3. | Lando Norris | 113 | |
| 4. | Valtteri Bottas | 108 |
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| 5. | Sergio Pérez | 104 | |
| 6. | Charles Leclerc | 80 | |
| 7. | Carlos Sainz Jr. | 68 | |
| 8. | Daniel Ricciardo | 50 | |
| 9. | Pierre Gasly | 39 | |
| 10. | Sebastian Vettel | 30 | |
| 11. | Fernando Alonso | 26 | |
| 12. | Lance Stroll | 18 | |
| 13. | Esteban Ocon | 14 | |
| 14. | Yuki Tsunoda | 10 | |
| 15. | Kimi Räikkönen | 1 | |
| 16. | Antonio Giovinazzi | 1 | |
| 17. | George Russell | 0 | |
| 18. | Mick Schumacher | 0 | |
| 19. | Nicholas Latifi | 0 | |
| 20. | Nikita Mazepin | 0 | |
| CONSTRUCTORS: | |||
| 1. | Red Bull | 289 | |
| 2. | Mercedes AMG | 285 | |
| 3. | McLaren | 163 | |
| 4. | Ferrari | 148 | |
| 5. | AlphaTauri | 49 | |
| 6. | Aston Martin | 48 | |
| 7. | Alpine | 40 | |
| 8. | Alfa Romeo | 2 | |
| 9. | Williams | 0 | |
| 10. | Haas | 0 | |
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