00:02For the sprint it's lights out and away we go and I think Verstappen got a better start than Lewis
00:07Hamilton
00:07and he's already ahead, Valtteri Bottas is trying to pressure his teammate as well
00:11but Verstappen at a turn one ahead of Lewis Hamilton, then comes Bottas and then comes Leclerc
00:16and then we've got three Perez and the two McLarens going in the village together
00:20almost contact there between Daniel Ricciardo and Sergio Perez
00:23and at the back there's a spinner and I think it's Nikita Mazepin
00:26For the third time this year Max Verstappen has out dragged Hamilton down to the first corner
00:32now he's trying to break the slipstream into Brooklyn's corner
00:35Hamilton will not get around the outside there because it's too tight, the corner tightens on you
00:39Luffield a long long right hand corner into Woodco and the old pit straight
00:44and down towards Copse we're going to head now on this old pit straight
00:48can Hamilton try and get back ahead of Max Verstappen and he's trying to get a slipstream as well
00:52Hamilton's going to try and dance around the outside, Verstappen stays ahead
00:56British crowd roaring their approval for this duel on the first lap of 17
01:00fastest man in qualifying yesterday down the straight, Lewis Hamilton
01:05slowest man, Max Verstappen, he's carrying a lot more downforce
01:09he needs to get out of these corners and actually that sort of half move there of Lewis has cost
01:15him ground
01:15because look now at the distance as we head into Stowe between Verstappen and Hamilton
01:19Bottas third, then comes Leclerc, then comes the fast starting Fernando Alonso
01:23and there goes Sergio Perez on the inside at Stowe, getting past the McLaren of Daniel Ricciardo
01:30we can see the start here and those brakes, they're on fire as the lights go out
01:35look at the flames on the left hand side, look at how Max Verstappen got away
01:39yeah because he put so much temperature in the brakes to give himself front tyre pressure as well and temperature
01:45this is the incident between George Russell and Carlos Sainz, lock up for McLaren
01:49and Russell just tapping the Ferrari as it then headed off towards the barriers
01:54this is Nikita Mazepin, oh tangle with his teammate Mick Schumacher and that's what sent him into a spin
02:01into Maggerts and then Beckerts and then as they have to weave because the corners go right and left and
02:05right and left
02:06he just loses it in the ground, Perez is round, Perez is spinning, that's going in the wall
02:11Sergio Perez off and off in a big way, damage to the front wing, he's managed to keep going, can
02:17he limp back to the pits here
02:19oh this is horrendous for Sergio Perez who nearly gets collected as he makes his way back onto the hangar
02:25straight
02:26well that's the jeopardy we talked about in this sprint and the last thing that Perez or Red Bull needed
02:33in the turbulent air following two other cars
02:37Lando Norris is ahead of Fernando Alonso, we saw him closing and he managed to make the move
02:43so he is now up to fifth, so making one place from his initial grid spot in this sprint on
02:48the Saturday afternoon
02:50it started like a race, it certainly carried on like a race for the first few corners
02:55and then they'll wave a funny little black and white flag and it'll be the end of it
02:59and that is a lovely move from Daniel Ricciardo
03:02the double switch back there and now he can scamper off down the road
03:06he might have to do a little bit of an Alonso weave down there but of course he's got the
03:10DRS
03:11he's got the DRS, Alonso's got the slipstream, who's going to come out on top as into Brooklands we go
03:16Ricciardo had the inside line, that certainly helped him there
03:19Fernando Alonso trying to dance around the outside at LaField
03:22will switch back and try and move himself I'm sure as down the old pit straight we go
03:27and towards Cox where Fernando Alonso's had some brilliant battles over the years
03:31and he's going to try another one in 2021
03:34and Daniel Ricciardo just keeps ahead of Fernando Alonso
03:38the qualifying sprint on this Saturday goes to Max Verstappen
03:43for the fourth race in a row in 2021
03:47Verstappen's going to be on pole
03:48he sprints home to take the sprint on this Saturday
03:52Red Bull with the victory and three championship points for the championship leader
03:57Hamilton second, Bottas comes home third
04:00Charles Leclerc for the fourth race this season will start fourth on the grid
04:04and Lando Norris will come home to take fifth meanwhile George Russell still ahead then
04:09of Esteban Ocon, Carlos Sainz still ahead of Pierre Gasly
04:13it's Alonso from 11th on this grid to 7th on the grid for the Grand Prix
04:18Sebastian Vettel will start eighth ahead of Russell and then Ocon, Sainz and then Gasly
04:22Kimi Räikkönen making up places to start 13th for the Grand Prix
04:26and Astrol and Giovinazzi, Tsunoda Latifi, Schumacher, Mazepin and Perez
04:30with a DNF to his name
04:33you
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