Grand Prix results: Verstappen wins F1 sprint for British GP pole

With its starting lineup set by qualifying on Friday evening, the 100km sprint decides the grid order for Sunday’s British GP.

Verstappen outdragged Hamilton away from the startline and repelled two attacks from his title rival on the opening lap. Verstappen’s victory officially gives him the British GP pole position accolade.

2021 British Grand Prix sprint results

Cla	Driver	Chassis	Laps	Time	Interval
1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	17	-
2	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	17	1.430	1.430
3	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	17	7.502	6.072
4	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	17	11.278	3.776
5	Lando Norris	McLaren	17	24.111	12.833
6	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	17	30.959	6.848
7	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	17	43.527	12.568
8	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	17	44.439	0.912
9	George Russell	Williams	17	46.652	2.213
10	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	17	47.395	0.743
11	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Ferrari	17	47.798	0.403
12	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri	17	48.763	0.965
13	Kimi Raikkonen	Alfa Romeo	17	50.677	1.914
14	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	17	52.179	1.502
15	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo	17	53.225	1.046
16	Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	17	53.567	0.342
17	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	17	55.162	1.595
18	Mick Schumacher	Haas	17	1'08.213	13.051
19	Nikita Mazepin	Haas	17	1'17.648	9.435
20	Sergio Perez	Red Bull	16
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How the British Grand Prix sprint unfolded

Although his brakes caught fire on the grid, Verstappen beat pole sitter Hamilton on the run to Turn 1.

Hamilton twice got alongside the Red Bull into Brooklands and Copse on the opening lap, but Verstappen held him off both times.

From third on the grid Valtteri Bottas started his Mercedes on soft tyres, unlike the majority on mediums, along with the Alpines of Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon and Alfa Romeo’s Kimi Raikkonen.

Alonso used the extra grip to leap from 11^th to fifth, after a stunning sequence of opening corners, to run behind Bottas and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc.

Red Bull’s Sergio Perez lost track position to both McLarens but re-passed Daniel Ricciardo on the opening lap. Further back, George Russell (Williams) and Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) touched at Brooklands, sending Sainz back to 18^th – while Nikita Mazepin hit his Haas team-mate Mick Schumacher and spun.

Verstappen pulled out of Hamilton's DRS range out front, but his teammate Perez spun off at Becketts on lap five, dropping to 19^th.

Norris passed Alonso for fifth on Lap 6 at Village, while Ricciardo did likewise at The Loop four tours later.

Verstappen cruised to victory over Hamilton by 1.4s, with Bottas a distant third ahead of Leclerc, Norris and Ricciardo.

Alonso fell back into the clutches of Aston Martin’s Sebastian Vettel, but the German couldn’t find a way past. Russell and Ocon rounded out the top 10.

Sainz recovered to finish 11th, while Perez retired his car from 18^th place at the start of the final lap.