Lando Norris Win of the chaos of Silverstone and sealed his second victory in two weeks in the Great Britain Prizeat home. He is not yet the leader of Formula 1 2025 Worldbut with this new triumph is closer than ever of the leader, his partner Oscar Plastriwhich was second when throwing the race in the trash in an absurd brake on the main line during one of the yellow flags.
Eight points separate the pilots from McLaren (Piastri 134 and Norris 126), although already with Max Verstappen practically outside the equation (159). The Dutchman lived another drama seven days after his abandonment in Austria With a spinning spin 22 that came down from the top 10. In the end, he had to settle for a fifth place. Nico Hulkenberg He broke his pilot curse with more participations without podiums and climbed from the last position to the third. Amazing the feat of German at 37 with a Sauber.
Fernando Alonso He was ninth, convicted once again for the strategy of Aston Martinwhich did succeed with Lance Stroll By putting a soft rocket just before the flood. The Canadian ended sixth when he was overcome by Verstappen on the horn without showing opposition and the Spanish was left wanting more, although together they gave the team their best result of the year.
Carlos Sainzvery in the shadow, he finished twelfth behind Oliver Bearman y George Russellalso from Alex Alboneighth. Beating Lewis Hamiltonfourth, a Charles Leclercfourteenth, at home and surprise of Pierre Gasly In the seventh position, ahead of Alonso who held throughout the race after advancing at the exit.
Sun exit and imminent rain
After the morning raining, the race in Silverstone started with a shining sun, although most of the pilots heated intermediate tires because the track was still wet and the forecast indicated more water from the lap 17. The grill broke down by a series of brave men who started from the pit lane When playing it with dry rubber Liam Lawson He got out of the track and there was virtual security car because the Neozyle's car was stopped after a clash with Esteban Ocon.
Gabriel Bortoleto It was the next to fall, but with more luck than Lawson. The Brazilian lost control in curve 2 and shattered the back wing. There was no yellow flag because he managed to resume the march until the car definitely stopped and the virtual security car was displayed again. Meanwhile, Alonso and Sainz looked sideways at the radar after being left out with intermediates.
The Spaniards marched sixth and seventh at the gates of the new flood with three pilots already out of the race (Bortoleto, Lawson and Franco frankntoto) and six with dry wheels, one of them Stroll, who was placed soft taking advantage of the hole with the brave ones, but while still a controversial decision of Aston Martin. Russell, Kimi andre antonelliLeclerc, Isack Hadjar And Bearman were far behind and they had to return to boxes to get rid of the exit tires.
Piastri did not wait for the rain and advanced to Verstappen as soon as the DRS opened, his McLaren had much more rhythm than the Red Bull. The same as the Ferrari De Leclerc, who settled Antonelli on the next return, while Stroll rode with those soft and gave Aston Martin reason. He entered through the intermediates in eighth position and in 11 he already fell a lot of water on the asphalt of Silverstone.
Piastri and Verstappen the bundle at the same time
The rain gave rise to the unusual: an error of Verstappen, which came out and handed Norris the second position before going to boxes. But McLaren the mess, it took an eternity in the change of the British and Max returned the overtaking in the pit lane. Alonso could not explain it, because he left the stop in tenth place behind Gasly, Hamilton, Hulkenberg, Stroll and Ocon. Only the latter was out of position.
Total downpour and the radios spoke for themselves, with pilots like Hamilton asking for cries of extreme rain. A lot Williams. At that time they could not expect another situation other than a race without rain …
Luckily for them the yellow flag died in Tour 18 and it was the turn of both to fish in a scrambled river. The first to fall was Hadjar, as in Australia, and again security car just a turn later. Strong accident of the Frenchman, who burst the Racing Bulls in Copse because the spray did not show Antonelli and hit the back of the Mercedes Before getting out of the track.
They resumed in Tour 22, but first one of the actions of the race took place, a piastri brake on the main line that made Verstappen put ahead for a moment. The Dutchman went badly stopped with a trunk already with a green flag and cleared the path of Norris falling to eleventh position, although miraculously managed to save the Red Bull from another abandonment.
Victory of Norris, Alonso Eighth and Fiestón de Hulkenberg
Something that did not avoid Antonelli, to the canvas due to the damage caused by Hadjar in the previous accident. After the Ecuador of the test there were only 15 drivers on the track and the big surprises were Stroll on the podium and fourth Hulkenberg. Piastri was the leader, but the FIA He sanctioned him with 10 seconds for the brake with the security car, Alonso Eighth and Sainz Ninth.
Yuki Tsunoda The same penalty was taken as Piastri, but without greater significance, since it was last again as in Austria. The action returned to Vuelta 35, with Hulkenberg passing to Stroll and exciting himself with the podium, Verstappen to Sainz and Alonso on the stalking of Russell and Gasly. He saw that he was not able to beat them and asked Aston Martin to play it to put media.
Extreme difficulty in the first turns while the asphalt and Russell dried, which imitated his play, but with hard, he left the track in the fast area. A carambola saved Mercedes from abandonment and both he and Alonso began to fly on Tour 41.
The Asturian passed ahead already seven laps was ninth. Next stop, Albon and eighth, but the next one was seven seconds and it was Gasly, unattainable. In fact, he ended up defending himself from Williams Thai with DRS from behind and losing the eighth position. Norris had it done and although Piastri tried to return the leadership, the British went out with his in Silverstone condemning the mistakes of his contestants for the title. Another star triumph of McLaren.
