
What more could Williams have done?
Williams was always unlikely to win at Silverstone, but could it have put up a stronger fight and should it have let Valtteri Bottas pull clear? BEN ANDERSON analyses the British Grand Prix
In the end this was probably the result most people predicted, but it certainly wasn't the race anyone expected.
Lewis Hamilton ultimately sent the Silverstone crowd home happy by scoring his third British Grand Prix victory, but for the first 20-odd laps of this race we all wondered whether Williams would steal his thunder.
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