Max Verstappen cruised to victory within the British Grand Prix for his sixth win in a row and a record-equalling eleventh consecutive triumph for Crimson Bull.

Verstappen’s eighth win in 10 races this yr introduced Crimson Bull degree with the report McLaren established of their historic 1988 season with Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost.

Oscar Piastri made it an excellent day for McLaren with fourth, forward of George Russell’s Mercedes.

Verstappen was untouchable out entrance, as soon as he had overtaken Norris for the lead on lap 5 after the McLaren jumped forward when the world champion suffered an excessive amount of wheelspin in the beginning.

This victory, which places Verstappen’s championship lead over team-mate Sergio Perez at 99 factors, extends a run of Crimson Bull wins that dates again to final season’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

On Verstappen’s present apparently unbeatable type, Crimson Bull will break McLaren’s report on the subsequent race in Hungary in two weeks’ time and are more likely to transfer far past it because the season progresses.

Verstappen diminished this grand prix, like so many this yr, to an indication run as soon as into the lead.

However behind him the race, static for an extended interval, got here alive after the protection automobile, which was known as when Kevin Magnussen’s Haas caught hearth down the Wellington straight.

Security automobile rolls the cube

Divergent tyre decisions launched jeopardy and intrigue for everybody else over the ultimate 14 laps.

Norris and Piastri had appeared on track for a double podium for McLaren, who launched a serious improve for Norris to nice impact on the final race in Austria and gave it to Piastri at Silverstone as nicely.

However the security automobile modified the whole lot and gave Hamilton an opportunity not solely to leap forward of Piastri but in addition to briefly threaten Norris.

The seven-time champion, who began seventh, drove steadily within the opening laps, biding his time as soon as he had re-passed Fernando Alonso’s Aston Martin, which overtook him on the primary lap.

Hamilton moved up because the pit stops began to occur forward of him, with first Charles Leclerc pitting his Ferrari out of fourth place, adopted by the second Ferrari of Carlos Sainz, the Mercedes of Russell, and Piastri.

It meant Hamilton was on track to complete fifth behind Piastri and Russell, however stopping underneath the protection automobile allowed him to leap each and line up behind Norris on the restart.

Norris had hinted closely a number of occasions earlier than his cease that he would possibly desire the mushy tyre, with out ever explicitly asking for it, and McLaren caught with their selection for hards as he got here in, simply as a digital security automobile changed into a full security automobile, as a result of altering tack would have induced too many dangers and created too massive a delay.

Norris expressed over the radio his fears that he would wrestle to carry Hamilton again, with the Mercedes on mushy tyres and the McLaren on exhausting, however the 23-year-old weathered an early storm after the restart with aplomb after which edged away to consolidate his second place.

Piastri, additionally fitted with exhausting tyres at his pit cease, was equally spectacular in a automobile not fairly as much as the identical specification as his team-mate, missing a brand new entrance wing.

The Australian rookie misplaced his hopes of a podium with the protection automobile, which allowed Hamilton to leap him.

However within the closing laps, as Hamilton dropped away from Norris, the Mercedes got here underneath stress from Piastri, who crossed the road lower than a second behind.

Ferrari fall away

Russell was the one man within the high 10 to decide on mushy tyres relatively than mediums for the beginning, and he jumped up a spot to threaten Leclerc for fourth place.

However he misplaced out by stopping earlier than the protection automobile and got here residence fifth as Sergio Perez recovered from yet one more poor qualifying session to complete sixth from fifteenth on the grid.

The final driver he handed was Alonso, whose Aston Martin crew have in the previous couple of races fallen away from their robust type within the first six races of the season.

Ferrari’s day crumbled after a promising begin. Leclerc had no tempo within the first a part of the race, spending the primary half of the race with Russell proper behind him not fairly managing to get previous.

Leclerc made an early cease for exhausting tyres after which got here in once more underneath the protection automobile for mediums.

However he once more struggled and misplaced eighth place to the spectacular Williams of Alex Albon, who selected mushy tyres on the security automobile, within the closing laps.

Sainz, who was left on exhausting tyres when he didn’t cease underneath the protection automobile, misplaced three locations in a couple of corners as Perez, Leclerc and Albon all handed him after the restart, and trailed in a disappointing tenth.