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Red Bull’s Dutch driver Max Verstappen won the British Grand Prix ahead of Lando Norris on Sunday.
Verstappen finished the 52-lap race in an hour, 25 minutes, and 16 seconds at the Silverstone Circuit on a 5.9-kilometer (3.6-mile) track.
The 25-year-old driver won the eighth race of the season to take six consecutive victories.
Lando Norris of McLaren completed the race in second place, while Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes came third in round 11 of the season.
In May, Formula One canceled the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, the sixth race of the season, due to flooding in northern Italy.
The season’s 12th race, the Hungarian Grand Prix will be held on July 23.
Driver standings
1. Max Verstappen (Netherlands): 255 points
2. Sergio Perez (Mexico): 156
3. Fernando Alonso (Spain): 137
4. Lewis Hamilton (Great Britain): 121
5. Carlos Sainz (Spain): 83
Constructor standings
1. Red Bull: 411
2. Mercedes: 203
3. Aston Martin: 181
4. Ferrari: 157
5. McLaren: 59
The weight of history was heavy on Red Bull’s shoulders ahead of the annual visit to Silverstone; the team had not won the British GP since Mark Webber in 2012 (Verstappen had won at Silverstone before, in the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix in 2020), meaning the march to an 11th straight win dating back to Abu Dhabi last year was likely to be harder in reality than it appeared on current form.
What’s more, McLaren’s record 11th consecutive F1 wins in the 1988 season with Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost has been one of the sport’s toughest nuts to crack; a team had won 10 straight on four previous occasions (Ferrari in 2002, and Mercedes in 2015, 2015-16 and 2018-19) without annexing that elusive 11th triumph on the bounce.
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