Rain Man: Analysis of the British GP
By all accounts, the British Grand Prix was not a good weekend for Lewis Hamilton. Until, that is, he pulled off the win of a lifetime. Adam Cooper analyses the Silverstone weekend and talks to the men behind the scenes
Silverstone saw a truly astonishing performance from Lewis Hamilton. He not only finished 68 seconds ahead of his closest rival, Nick Heidfeld, but he lapped everyone up to third place. Both of those statistics are extremely unusual in the modern era, when the cars are so evenly matched and safety car periods often serve to close up the field.
And yet this was a strange race. Curiously Heidfeld actually set a quicker fastest lap than Hamilton, and Kimi Raikkonen's best was a full 0.677 seconds faster than that achieved by the McLaren man. What's more, when he set that time, Kimi was closing in and seemed destined to take the lead. And then a poor strategic call by Ferrari turned the Finn's race upside down.
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