Lando Norris won the crazy Grand Prix of Great Britain in Silverstone
The rain mixed everything, Oscar Piastri was penalized and the English achieved the victory as a local with his McLaren. The Australian was second and Nico Hülkenberg completed the podium.
That rains in Great Britain cannot surprise anyone. On average, the English have 130 days with umbrellas in the streets, that is, one in three. So, it was not illogical for the prognosis to announce showers at the time of the 12th F1 date in Silverstone. And, of course, when in Formula 1 the track gets wet, the grill enters into a state of madness. Go if everything was mixed in the competition that finally He closed with the triumph of Lando Norris and his McLaren to leave the championship in a state of boiling.
It went from everything. Already complicated the rain, because at the time of leaving, water no longer fell and there was sun! So, madness, what is it going with? The grid ended with several absences by the pilots who chose to go to boxes to look for tires for dry floor, when the prognosis warned that the extreme rain would arrive soon. In that revoleo was Franco Colapinto, who had to leave from Pits for having changed the power unit of his alpine, but never launched …
From there, successful, wrong strategies, errors, mistakes, shocks, sanctions … uff, of everything a little. The soldiers fell, the pilots complained on the radio. It was quickly evident that Max Verstappen had exhausted all his magic in the classification. The wonderful pole that he got on Saturday, with his Red Bull totally downloaded, at the level that only he can handle, quickly vanished. McLaren’s Navy was uncontrollable for so little RB21. A lot of pilot (a lot) for a car that is no longer the one that dominated. Of course, the magic really spent all in the qualy, because in the race he ended with a spin in return 21, in full relaunch, which does not enter the normal parameters of Max.
With Lewis Hamilton, Charles Leclerc and George Russell, just by giving names of caliber pilots, visiting the grass. With Isack Hadjar, taking Kimi Antonelli under the flood and destroying his Racing Bulls, with Gabriel Bortoleto with a rookie error in the rain breaking his Sauber, with Liam Lawson and an illogical maneuver with Esteban Ocon, with Haas’s companions (Ocon and Oliver Bearman) playing and trained in a dance of trumpers in the GP of Great Britain of 2025. And there were more, but it is time to reach the tip of the race, the victory of Lando Norris.
Norris had been behind his partner Oscar Piastri since the classification. The Australian chopped second and English, third. And once the powerful McLaren remained on tip, it seemed that it would be a hand in hand, but the definition came from the commissioners. The moment of greatest flood led the career direction to take the security car on track due to the lack of visibility (it is supposed). When the biggest downpour loosen, the flagship car had turned off the lights indicating that it was leaving. Once this happens, the one who handles the speed of the platoon is the leader of the race, until reaching the Safety Car line. The leader was Piastri. But the Australian made the decision to stop abruptly, so much that Verstappen had to dodge him and surpassed him. The FIA took note and determined to sanction him with ten seconds, which he fulfilled at his last stop in boxes.
So crazy was the race, that Norris’s first victory at home was on the desk. Because after Piastri purged the penalty, the World Cup escort stayed with the tip of the Grand Prix and success. In the midst of chaos, Lando appeared, for the emotion of his mother, who could not contain tears when greeting him. The British had been wrong in the classification (one more and go …), but in the race he took advantage of everything that came and showed firm handling in the adverse track conditions.
“It’s beautiful. Everything I dreamed, I suppose. Everything I always wanted to achieve. Apart from a championship, I think this is the best I can get in terms of sensations, achievements, pride, everything,” Norris said before climbing the podium to receive that trophy for which he had said Friday that he delivered all his victories obtained until here, just to live at the time of beating at home. The triumph, the second in a row, the room of the season and the eighth of his campaign, served to be eight piastri points in the fight for the title, in a battle that will have them, without mediating anything weird, as exclusive protagonists. Verstappen, after his spinning, climbed up to a fifth place with a flavored and left it to 69 points of the leader. A very big difference. McLaren will continue to add chapters of the internal fight and still exactly worldwide. Ecuador crossed in a crazy race in Silverstone.
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