Grand Prix race results: Hamilton wins F1 British GP

Red Bull’s Verstappen led from the start, just holding off Hamilton’s Mercedes – who attacked him hard. At Copse corner, they touched wheels with Verstappen sent spinning into the tyrewall that caused the race to be stopped.

During their clash Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc jumped to the front to restart on pole, and he led at the resumption from Hamilton – who was given a 10s penalty.

Hamilton’s penalty dropped him to fourth place after his pitstop but he charged back to the front, passing Leclerc at Copse for victory with three laps remaining.

2021 British Grand Prix race results

Cla	Driver		Laps	Time	Interval	Points
1	Lewis Hamilton		52	-		25
2	Charles Leclerc		52	3.871	3.871	18
3	Valtteri Bottas		52	11.125	7.254	15
4	Lando Norris		52	28.573	17.448	12
5	Daniel Ricciardo		52	42.624	14.051	10
6	Carlos Sainz Jr.		52	43.454	0.830	8
7	Fernando Alonso		52	1'12.093	28.639	6
8	Lance Stroll		52	1'14.289	2.196	4
9	Esteban Ocon		52	1'16.162	1.873	2
10	Yuki Tsunoda		52	1'22.065	5.903	1
11	Pierre Gasly		52	1'25.327	3.262
12	George Russell		51	1 lap
13	Antonio Giovinazzi		51	1 lap
14	Nicholas Latifi		51	1 lap
15	Kimi Raikkonen		51	1 lap
16	Sergio Perez		51	1 lap
17	Nikita Mazepin		51	1 lap
18	Mick Schumacher		51	1 lap
	Sebastian Vettel		40
	Max Verstappen		0
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How the British Grand Prix unfolded

From pole position, Verstappen just held on to his lead from pole after running side-by-side with a fast-starting Hamilton through Turn 1. Hamilton attacked like he did in the sprint race into Brooklands and again at Copse – where they touched wheels (Hamilton’s left-front to Verstappen’s right-rear) at 180mph and Verstappen was sent plunging backwards into the tyrewall.

Leclerc took advantage of their collision to grab the lead. Verstappen climbed out of the car unaided but was clearly winded before he was taken to the medical centre – and later to a local hospital. Meanwhile, the safety car came out and then the red flag was flown.

After a break of over 30 minutes to repair the tyrewall, they lined up for the standing restart in the order: Leclerc, Hamilton, Bottas and the McLarens of Lando Norris and Daniel Ricciardo.

Leclerc led Hamilton, the fast-starting Norris, Bottas and Ricciardo. Behind them, Sebastian Vettel spun his Aston Martin at Luffield while battling Fernando Alonso’s Alpine for sixth.

On Lap 5, Hamilton was notified of a 10-second penalty for causing the collision with Verstappen, while Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz passed Alonso for sixth at Brooklands.

Leclerc led comfortably until his engine began to cutout on Lap 15. That put Hamilton into his DRS range, but Ferrari managed to solve his mapping issues and he pulled clear again.

Norris stopped on Lap 22, but a lengthy 6s stop – due to a right-rear issue – cost him third place to Bottas. Hamilton pitted on Lap 28, serving his 10s penalty before switching to hard tyres, and rejoining behind Norris in fourth.

Sainz suffered a slow 12s pitstop due to a left-front problem, dropping him back behind Ricciardo. Leclerc pitted a tour later on Lap 30, rejoining with a 7s lead over Bottas, who was 5s clear of Norris and a charging Hamilton, who was 13s off the lead.

Hamilton passed Norris for third on Lap 31 and caught Bottas 10 laps later. Bottas followed team orders and gifted second to Hamilton at Stowe. At that point he was 8s behind Leclerc with 12 laps remaining but was consistently lapping a second per lap faster.

Hamilton got into DRS range of Leclerc with four laps remaining, and passed him at Copse with three laps to go when Leclerc understeered wide when he attacked. It was Hamilton's eighth victory in his home race, with Leclerc finishing second.

Bottas was a distant third, ahead of Norris, Ricciardo, Sainz and Alonso.

2021 Formula 1 British Grand Prix fastest laps

Cla	Driver	Chassis	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	km/h
1	Sergio Perez	Red Bull	50	1'28.617			239.317
2	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	45	1'29.699	1.082	1.082	236.430
3	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri	52	1'30.266	1.649	0.567	234.945
4	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	45	1'30.524	1.907	0.258	234.275
5	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	45	1'30.569	1.952	0.045	234.159
6	Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	51	1'30.826	2.209	0.257	233.497
7	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Ferrari	51	1'31.223	2.606	0.397	232.480
8	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	51	1'31.284	2.667	0.061	232.325
9	Lando Norris	McLaren	44	1'31.420	2.803	0.136	231.979
10	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	48	1'31.698	3.081	0.278	231.276
11	Kimi Raikkonen	Alfa Romeo	48	1'31.895	3.278	0.197	230.780
12	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	48	1'31.992	3.375	0.097	230.537
13	George Russell	Williams	49	1'32.049	3.432	0.057	230.394
14	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	48	1'32.210	3.593	0.161	229.992
15	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo	49	1'32.346	3.729	0.136	229.653
16	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	51	1'32.477	3.860	0.131	229.328
17	Mick Schumacher	Haas	50	1'32.862	4.245	0.385	228.377
18	Nikita Mazepin	Haas	51	1'32.909	4.292	0.047	228.262
19	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	35	1'33.059	4.442	0.150	227.894
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