2017 British Grand Prix - Lewis Hamilton Wins Fourth Straight British Grand Prix Sunday July 16,2017

 

Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton has won his fourth straight the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.

While Hamilton’s race out front was nothing short of a lights to flag domination. The race behind was filled with drama.

Ferrari were all set to claim the remaining spots on the podium, however, Kimi Raikkonen suffered a front left puncture with just two laps remaining, forcing him into the pits for new tyres. A lap later Sebastian Vettel suffered the same fate, damaging his car in the process.

Raikkonen recovered to finish third, behind Valtteri Bottas who benefitted greatly from the issues with Ferrari’s. Vettel did finish the race, but fell back the seventh.

However, the drive of the day went to Aussie Daniel Ricciardo. He carved his way through the field finish fifth, behind Red Bull team mate Max Verstappen after starting from the back of the grid.

 wasn’t a faultless drive from Ricciardo. After making his way up to 12th initially, he made a small mistake in traffic which sent him back to 18th before charging back up to the top of the order.

Renault’s Nico Hulkenberg continued his solid weekend finishing the race in sixth. The same could not be said for his team mate Jolyon Palmer who stopped on warmup lap with a hydraulic issue and couldn’t make the start.

Formula 1 British Grand Prix Results

Position	Driver	Car	Gap
1	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	51 Laps
2	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	14.063s
3	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	36.570s
4	Max Verstappen	Red Bull/Renault	52.125s
5	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull/Renault	1m05.955s
6	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	1m08.109s
7	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1m33.989s
8	Esteban Ocon	Force India/Mercedes	1 Lap
9	Sergio Perez	Force India/Mercedes	1 Lap
10	Felipe Massa	Williams/Mercedes	1 Lap
11	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren/Honda	1 Lap
12	Kevin Magnussen	Haas/Ferrari	1 Lap
13	Romain Grosjean	Haas/Ferrari	1 Lap
14	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber/Ferrari	1 Lap
15	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso/Renault	1 Lap
16	Lance Stroll	Williams/Mercedes	1 Lap
17	Pascal Wehrlein	Sauber/Ferrari	1 Lap
DNF	Fernando Alonso	McLaren/Honda	Retirement
DNF	Carlos Sainz	Toro Rosso/Renault	Collision
DNF	Jolyon Palmer	Renault	Not started

Formula 1 Championship Standings

Position	Driver	Points
1	Sebastian Vettel	177
2	Lewis Hamilton	176
3	Valtteri Bottas	154
4	Daniel Ricciardo	117
5	Kimi Raikkonen	98
6	Max Verstappen	57
7	Sergio Perez	52
8	Esteban Ocon	43
9	Carlos Sainz	29
10	Nico Hulkenberg	26
11	Felipe Massa	23
12	Lance Stroll	18
13	Romain Grosjean	18
14	Kevin Magnussen	11
15	Pascal Wehrlein	5
16	Daniil Kvyat	4
17	Fernando Alonso	2
18	Jolyon Palmer	0
19	Marcus Ericsson	0
20	Stoffel Vandoorne	0
21	Antonio Giovinazzi	0