by Lando Norris used Oscar Piatri’s penalty to win the British Grand Prix for the first time in his career.
During a wild, moist and chaotic race in Silverstone, Piatri was sanctioned by the Stewards with a sanction of 10 seconds after banging onto the brakes with 130 km / h before a restart of a security car.
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Max Verstappen was forced to take alternative measures, with the stewards subjected to the Australian hard. It cost Piatri, and Norris crossed the line 6.8 seconds from his team-mate and McLaren rival.
Norris’ fourth victory in the season enables him to reduce the championship deficit from 15 points to eight with his second win on so many weekends – while Nico Hulkenberg started his first podium in Formula 1 after 239. Lewis Hamilton had to be satisfied with the fourth.
Verstappen turned from the second and crossed the line in fifth place after a late Pass -On lance walk. George Russell began fourth place, but two premature changes to Slick tires destroyed his afternoon. He took the checkered flag in 10th place.
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Norris rolled up the veneration of the 160,000-strong amount of Silverstone, but he has to thank Piatri that he made his first triumph for home lawn possible.
Piatri had the early chaos around him navigated-with Liam Lawson and Gabriel Borteleto, both of whom crashed under the slippery conditions-before the McLaren man was hit in Stowe in Stowe in Stowe in Stowe to take the lead.
Piatri flew and was more than a second free of Verstappen after just a handful of corners. Further joy in McLaren followed in round 11 when Verstappen ran from the street in Copse and took Norris to second place.
In the ladders, the leaders came for a number of intermediate tires, but Norris lost through a slow tire at the front and left and Verstappen was back in front of me.
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With Verstappen and Norris dueling for second place, Piatri was clear for up to 11 seconds when the security car came out in round 14, the rain tightened.
The McLaren driver Oscar Piatri was treated by the Stewards (Andrew Matthews/Pa) a 10-second sanction.
Four laps later moved in, but almost immediately after the rookie -insiput Hadjar it was necessary to go on the back in Kimi Antonelli and crashed at Copse.
Piatri controlled the field before the restart, but on the hangar straight he hit the brakes and stapped in the spray on his right to avoid the Australian.
Verstappen, who held both hands disgusted, was directly on the radio. “Whoa, buddy, f ***, he only suddenly slows down again.”
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When the race was restarted, Verstappen turned in Abbey and fell on the tenth behind, with Piatri being examined. The stewards met him with a 10-second penalty and the English lasted with Norris for three seconds.
Further back and Hamilton was on the move. At the race on Sunday he had had every British Grand Prix on the podium and in round 27 and in round 27 he was up to sixth when he set his Ferrari from Russell’s Mercedes in Stowe.
In round 29 he moved for fifth place from Pierre Gasly and was then ahead of fourth place with 17 laps before the Lance walk. Suddenly a podium with Saubers Hulkenberg, who took third place.
Hamilton immersed in round 42 for Slick rubber, but he ran from the route on his round and cost him valuable time. When Hulkenberg stopped, Hamilton was eight seconds behind him, so many rounds in front of him, but he was unable to glove the veteran 37-year-old German.
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In round 43 Piatri switched to dries and served his punishment to enable Norris to the following round to change his change to Slick tires and take the lead. Norris appeared in the lead from the pit lane and with an advantage of six seconds.
Piatri called the McLaren boxing wall to exchange the positions with Norris and allow a straight struggle against the flag. But McLaren showed his desperate plea and an emotional norris.
