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The Dutch driver Max Verstappen seeks this Sunday to chain a new triumph in the Grand Prix of Great Britain of Formula 1 after winning on Saturday the reigning champion, the British Lewis Hamilton, in the first sprint race in the history of Formula 1, whose Final classification ordered the starting grid for this Sunday at the Silverstone circuit.
The Grand Prix of Great Britain, the oldest in Formula, will run from 11 in Argentina to 52 laps with live TV on ESPN3.
18.07.2021
10:40
Seven of the last eight editions of the British GP were held by Mercedes (six by amilton and one by Nico Rosberg).
Vettel, with Ferrari, broke the string in 2018.
18.07.2021
10:39
If he wins at Silverstone, Lewis Hamilton will add eight victories in the British Grand Prix - seven with Mercedes and another with McLaren - and it will be the circuit on which he won the most times together with the Hungarian Grand Prix, where he has already won eight times.
18.07.2021
09:05
Decisions, decisions 🤔
What tires, when, and how many pit stops?! # BritishGP 🇬🇧 # F1
- Formula 1 (@ F1) July 18, 2021
18.07.2021
09:04
The strategies recommended by Pirelli for the 2021 British GP.
18.07.2021
09:01
The Englishman George Russell (Williams) was sanctioned with the loss of three places on the grid this Sunday for causing Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) to leave the track during the sprint qualification this Saturday, so the Spaniard advances one place and will start tenth .
Russell, who had finished ninth in qualifying, drops to twelfth place.
His sanction also makes the Frenchman Esteban Ocon (Alpine) rise one place on the grid, who will start ninth;
and his compatriot Pierre Gasly (Alpha Tauri), who will start from eleventh position.
18.07.2021
08:53
Max Verstappen (Red Bull), the leader of the Formula 1 World Championship, gave another blow by winning the first sprint qualifying in history, at the home of seven-time English world champion Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes).
The Dutchman will start first this Sunday in the British Grand Prix, which the Spanish Fernando Alonso (Alpine) will face seventh, after showing himself in the first curves of the format premiered this Saturday at Silverstone.
Verstappen, world championship leader, starts from pole escorted in the front row by Hamilton, who has not won a GP since May 9.
Bottas and the Monegasque Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) were in the second row of the grid.
Hamilton, a local, is the driver who has won the race the most times with a marked supremacy since 2014, only interrupted by Vettel in 2018. There were seven celebrations for the Briton, who is also a seven-time world champion and seeks to be the lonely one the top winner of the history of the queen category.