2023-07-09 16:03:17
Max Verstappen’s victorious path in the 2023 Formula 1 season had another chapter this Sunday at the Silverstone circuit, where the Dutchman prevailed from pole position to affirm his impressive dominance in the top flight.
With Red Bull, Verstappen added his sixth consecutive victory and the eighth of 2023 by winning the F1 British GP followed by Lando Norris and Lewis Hamilton. Sergio “Checo” Pérez finished sixth following starting 15th.
Red Bull Racing, meanwhile, claimed its 11th successive win, equaling a McLaren record for most race wins in a row.
Precisely, McLaren was a great protagonist of the race with Lando Norris, who surprised Verstappen at the start to lead the first laps and then drove solidly to take second place, but not before enduring a hard attack from Lewis Hamilton in the part final following a safety car period.
The Mercedes driver was unable to beat his British compatriot but he did manage to reach the podium, followed by Oscar Piastri and George Russell.
Sergio Pérez, following another difficult qualifying on Saturday that saw him start 15th on the grid, moved up to the final sixth place, followed by Fernando Alonso and Alexander Albon, while Ferrari had a meager harvest with ninth and 10th place Charles Leclerc. and Carlos Sainz.
Development of the Grand Prix of Great Britain:
Norris moved better than Verstappen at the start and the Briton took the first pesto to the delirium of the more than 150,000 fans who packed the Silverstone circuit to enjoy the British Grand Prix.
Piastri held third at the start, followed by Leclerc and Russell, who was fifth following starting on soft tires once morest the crowd around him on track.
Further back in the order, “Checo” Pérez fell from 15th to 17th in the first lap, but would later make up his losses by passing Nyck de Vries and Logan Sargeant, the Mexican also using medium tires on his RB19.
Norris managed to hold off Verstappen behind until the fifth lap, when the Red Bull man managed to overtake the McLaren man, taking advantage of the DRS on the Wellington straight to make the pass as he reached the Brooklands curve.
Despite taking the lead, Verstappen did not quickly move away from Norris, since in ten laps of the 52 scheduled the Dutchman led with just a second behind the Briton, but five laps later he was already enjoying more than three seconds of distance. , with Piastri a second and a half behind his partner.
Pérez, meanwhile, managed to get into the points zone on the 17th lap by overtaking Albon and taking tenth position in the leaderboard and two laps later he moved up to ninth when Leclerc entered the pits to change from medium to hard tires, returning that of Ferrari in 12th place.
From there, the Mexican fell behind Pierre Gasly but was unable to really close on the Frenchman, who was lapping at a good pace behind Alonso’s Aston.
Reaching the middle of the race, Verstappen led by seven seconds from Norris setting a lap record of 1m32s138, making clear the superior pace of the Dutchman.
Pérez was called to the pits on lap 29 to switch from medium to soft tyres, returning to the race in 13th position and would later set the record in 1m31.408s.
The monotony of the competition would change on the 33rd lap, when Kevin Magnussen’s Haas was stopped with an engine failure and caused a Virtual Safety Car that later transformed into a safety car, which benefited all those who had not gone through. pits to enter to change tires.
Verstappen left the mediums for the softs, but McLaren went to the hards for Norris, while Hamilton took advantage of the caution to enter the softs himself and return to third, ahead of Piastri, who had entered during the VSC.
Pérez, for his part, was eighth for the restart, behind Sainz and ahead of Albon and Leclerc, who returned to the pits during the caution to return to medium tires on his Ferrari.
The race restarted on lap 39 and Verstappen quickly pulled two seconds away from Norris, who had to worry regarding Hamilton’s attack in the duel for second.
The Mercedes man managed to get inside the Luffield curve to go out on par towards the old main straight of Silverstone, but the McLaren man managed to hold second place as he reached the fast Copse curve.
Further back in the order, Pérez managed to overtake Sainz to take seventh position on lap 47, an action that Albon and then Leclerc also took advantage of to relegate the Spaniard to tenth place.
The “Checo” would continue at a good pace and three laps later he easily overtook Alonso in Stowe to place sixth in the leaderboard, which would mark the maximum for the Mexican, since the next car was Russell’s Mercedes three seconds behind and half with less than five laps remaining in the race.
Norris, for his part, managed to break the DRS with respect to Hamilton and moved away from the seven-time champion to confirm his second place in the race following suffering and a lot at the time of the restart following the safety car.
Verstappen cruised to his sixth straight win and eighth in ten races in the 2023 season by nearly four seconds clear of Norris at the checkered flag.
Hamilton took third place, followed by Piastri and Russell, with “Checo” Pérez in sixth place.
The first ten positions were completed by Alonso, Albon and the Ferraris of Leclerc and Sainz.
In addition to Magnussen, the two Alpine drivers also retired from the race. Esteban Ocon did it early due to a hydraulic failure, and Gasly in the final part following a contact by Lance Stroll that earned the Canadian a five-second penalty.
The Formula 1 championship will continue in two weeks with the Hungarian Grand Prix at the Hungaroring circuit.
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