Defending champion Max Verstappen won his sixth consecutive race at the British Grand Prix on Sunday, after the Red Bull driver lost the lead to Lando Norris at the start before reclaiming the top spot. Norris landed in second place after battling it out against seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton. Verstappen extended his overall lead to 99 points over teammate Sergio Perez; first place in a race earns 25 points. Verstappen said of the win: “It’s very confusing, to be honest, because every single race it’s someone else.”. Added Norris: “It was an amazing fight.”
From the start, Verstappen was overtaken off the line by McLaren’s Norris, but took back the lead on lap five and held on until the end. Red Bull has won all 10 races this year—11 in a row including the final race of 2022—matching the record of McLaren with 11 consecutive wins in 1988.
Hamilton had started seventh, and said of placing third: “I didn’t do it; the crowd did … I felt the energy. I felt the support. This is the reason we got back up there.” McLaren rookie Oscar Piastri was a career-best fourth ahead of Hamilton’s Mercedes teammate, George Russell. Perez was off the podium for the fourth time in five races, finishing sixth after starting 15th, with seventh place going to Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso and an impressive eighth for Alexander Albon of Williams.
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