12 Memorable Moments From The Brilliant British Grand Prix

The 2016 British Grand Prix had so many exciting elements, and with Lewis Hamilton victorious, we're here to run you through all the best bits
12 Memorable Moments From The Brilliant British Grand Prix

1. New pair of pants for Lewis

Image: Twitter/F1
Image: Twitter/F1

The British GP didn’t get off to the best of starts. A typically British rain shower soaked the grid before lights out, causing the race to begin behind the safety car. But eventual winner Hamilton got a nasty surprise when he got caught out and almost crashed into another Mercedes!

2. Get racing!

12 Memorable Moments From The Brilliant British Grand Prix
12 Memorable Moments From The Brilliant British Grand Prix

The early laps were pretty tentative but drivers soon started complaining about the track being ready to race. The FIA have been pretty safe when it comes to starting races in the rain and this continued at Silverstone. It was a puzzling situation with the track quickly drying and the sun actually out…

Arguably the greatest battle of the race was between Nico Rosberg and Max Verstappen. The two put in some incredible overtakes during the race, including this one by Verstappen around the outside at Chapel to secure second place.

4. Something’s not quite right

12 Memorable Moments From The Brilliant British Grand Prix

Jolyon Palmer’s post-pitstop Renault appears to be missing something? A wheel wasn’t secured properly and the mistake proved pretty costly for the British driver.

5. Who’s going to pit first?

Image source: Twitter/F1
Image source: Twitter/F1

Formula 1 strategy isn’t usually a fun topic, but whenever it rains, we enter the territory of who will risk it first. At Silverstone we had that twice, for the initial change from wet to intermediates and a little later to move onto the slick tyres. Daniel Ricciardo was the first to pit for inters, while Sebastian Vettel was the first to go onto dry tyres.

12 Memorable Moments From The Brilliant British Grand Prix

With some water patches still on the track, it proved to be treacherous – the fast Turn 1 was probably the trickiest place and it caught out a lot of drivers. It felt like a driver was facing the wrong direction there almost every other lap. Kimi Raikkonen was one of them, and “bwoah” was probably his reaction

12 Memorable Moments From The Brilliant British Grand Prix

Two drivers actually ended up hitting the wall after going off at the first corner, which is called Abbey. Fernando Alonso was the first to do so after a seriously high-speed spin but he continued, while Rio Haryanto wasn’t so lucky.

Vettel’s race wasn’t going particularly well and he ended up finding himself racing Felipe Massa for ninth place. But in the tricky conditions, he ran wide at Turn 3, got a twitch and ended up forcing both of them off track. Massa was not a happy bunny and Vettel got a five-second time penalty for the move.

9. Rosberg vs Verstappen, part two

12 Memorable Moments From The Brilliant British Grand Prix

Rosberg then claimed back P2 from Verstappen with a similar move to the one he had lost the runner-up spot to earlier in the race, this time at Stowe. Some great battling between the two of them.

Then there came that radio message. Rosberg reported a gearbox issue with just a handful of laps to go and was told to switch to “chassis default 0-1” and also to “shift through” seventh gear. This breached the team radio regulations and handed Rosberg a 10-second time penalty, dropping him behind Verstappen.

11. Hamilton wins

Image source: Twitter/F1
Image source: Twitter/F1

So Hamilton went on to claim a clear fourth Silverstone victory and fourth win of the season too, cutting the championship gap (which was then cut again due to Rosberg’s penalty and is now down to just one point). He was clearly pretty happy about the result!

12. Crowdsurfing!

Image source: Lewis Hamilton
Image source: Lewis Hamilton

So happy in fact, he went to visit the fans after the podium celebrations and did a spot of crowdsurfing! It topped off what was a pretty successful day for the three-time world champion.

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Comments

TipsyTimothy

Bwoah, this is nooiiiiiiiiiiice.

07/10/2016 - 22:21 |
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Mickey Mouse

This goes to show that a victory by a Mercedes doesn’t always mean that the race is boring! Congratulations, Lewis!

07/10/2016 - 22:21 |
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Anonymous

Who watches F1 still?? It’s soo boring with all the regulations holding it back.. :(

07/10/2016 - 23:07 |
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Jorge Migguel

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Have you read the article?

07/11/2016 - 07:35 |
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BWOAH

New pants ?
Ah a little sh.t

07/10/2016 - 23:49 |
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On the Apex

Excellent race today! Props for Lewis for putting on a show in the wet!
Just one thing annoys me deeply: SC START. WHY?!

07/11/2016 - 01:27 |
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Chrisco 1

Turn 1

07/11/2016 - 02:44 |
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Reece 1

imo most intresting race of the season (atleast for now)

07/11/2016 - 03:11 |
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Anonymous

Wich place Räikkönen came?

07/11/2016 - 06:59 |
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Juha Arkkukangas

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Viides

07/12/2016 - 11:44 |
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Freddie Skeates

Top slide catches

07/11/2016 - 07:26 |
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DL🏁

One of my favourite moments was when Fernando span out into the gravel in front of my grandstand and the crowd went “awww nooooo” but after struggling with wheelspin then he managed to get back into racing and everyone was “wow yeeeeeeeeahhh”

07/11/2016 - 09:07 |
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