00:00Five lights, Lewis Hamilton's on pole, his lights out, and away we go, and Hamilton gets away well.
00:06Sluggish start from Max Verstappen though, Antonelli puts pressure on Hamilton, who squeezes him off going in to the first
00:13corner.
00:13And there goes Lando Norris up in the third place with George Russell on the inside, and Oscar Piastri because
00:19Verstappen has already lost three places.
00:21Hamilton from Antonelli, Norris on the inside, Russell trying to go around the outside will get a great toe,
00:26and Piastri will get a toe behind him down the Wellington Strait.
00:30He's got George Russell into Brooklyn's round the outside, Liam Lawson with his teammate Arvid Limblad on the inside.
00:37We carry on now, on the run, at the old pit straight, down towards Cobbs, and this is a great
00:42battle going on between Antonelli and Norris,
00:44and Norris has won that battle, it's Brit 1, Brit 2 at the moment, Hamilton leads Norris.
00:50Heading to the Lando stand, and they will rise for Lando if he can hold on to this second place,
00:54but he's got no defence against Kimi Antonelli, who is through, and George Russell trying to go around the outside
01:00of Oscar Piastri,
01:01and Stowe and Russell looks like he's made that move.
01:03Wow, what a great first lap.
01:05Hamilton leads from Antonelli, Russell on the inside of Norris.
01:09Yeah, he's got two McLarens in the space of two corners.
01:12George Russell's on the charge.
01:14Here's Charles Leclerc now, trying to get in on the overtaking act as Max Verstappen locks up.
01:18Leclerc will battle away with Piastri, he's lost out again.
01:21Charles Leclerc is up in the sixth place, Piastri down at seventh.
01:25Hamilton leads.
01:25Coming back again at Charles Leclerc.
01:27Yeah, he's ahead of Leclerc, but Leclerc was putting the move on him,
01:31and through Woodcut there, we could ride on board with Charles Leclerc into Cobbs.
01:34Oh, no room down the inside at Cobbs on this particular occasion.
01:38The gap out in front, 1.1 seconds, that's key.
01:40They're fighting each other, it gives Hamilton and Antonelli some breathing space,
01:44and also allows Verstappen and co. to close in on their gearboxes.
01:50But yeah, I will.
01:51There goes Verstappen on George Russell.
01:53Thank you very much, bye-bye.
01:54And he is through Verstappen, up into fourth place.
01:57Russell now down into fifth.
01:59And on the inside goes Max Verstappen battling away with Lando Norris.
02:03He went a bit too deep, Norris saw that coming, said,
02:06thank you, I'll take that place back again.
02:07Hamilton still out in front, but now by just nine-tenths of a second.
02:11Here comes George Russell, Piastri's seen him coming.
02:14Can't defend against Russell, who's got the energy going into Stowe.
02:18And if you've got a ticket for the Lando stand, you are seeing some action.
02:21And we're only on lap three.
02:23He's in club in the final part of the lap, and he'll get extra power.
02:27So Antonelli will then be able to home in on the Ferrari.
02:29This is nice from Charles Leclerc.
02:31He's forced his way into the equation alongside Oscar Piastri.
02:34Now, if he can get a good exit, out of Village in the loop,
02:37and he's got a chance down the straight.
02:39Couldn't get past there.
02:40Now we'll pick up the slipstream.
02:42Here comes the Ferrari down into Brooklyn.
02:44He's got the inside line into Brooklyn, and he's got a head.
02:47Piastri will sit behind him for a while.
02:49This might be an issue.
02:50Here comes Antonelli.
02:51Into Village we go, and he was a couple of car lengths
02:55too far back to mount a robust challenge to Hamilton.
02:58But he'll get a great slipstream down the Wellington Strait.
03:01Yeah, Lewis was compromised in the defence,
03:04and that slowed him down onto Wellington Strait.
03:07Side by side they go.
03:08And he's going to have to go the long way round, Antonelli,
03:10and it's too long to get round.
03:13Hamilton wasn't able to weave.
03:15He did just enough to move over to the right,
03:17then to the left, then kept his position.
03:20Antonelli was forced to go round the outside,
03:22and that was nothing doing.
03:23This is a strategy the drivers can deploy
03:26and use at their will to either hold a position
03:29or gain a position.
03:30Talking of gaining positions,
03:32Hadjar's up to 10th, by the way,
03:34and Bortoleto got past Ofcon on the last lap.
03:36Here goes Kimi Antonelli down the hangar straight into Stowe.
03:41He had more boost at his disposal,
03:43and he has blasted his way past the Ferrari and into the lead.
03:47In third place behind him,
03:50Verstappen, Russell, Leclerc,
03:52going through Chappell now
03:54and not separated by a huge amount.
03:56Piastri has fallen away from this pack.
03:58Lawson in the final points place.
04:00There goes George Russell once again
04:02on Max Verstappen.
04:03He did it on the last lap.
04:05He's done it on this lap.
04:06Can he now hang on to that fourth place?
04:09Breaking him a couple of laps to achieve it,
04:11but now he's done it,
04:12and Charles Leclerc is waiting
04:13to see what happens with this battle,
04:15which is going to carry on, Martin,
04:16all the way now through Farm towards Village.
04:19Verstappen round the outside with George Russell.
04:21We get to the loop,
04:22and Verstappen's run out of road
04:23and almost coming back,
04:25runs into Charles Leclerc.
04:27What a scrap this is.
04:28Yeah, and Verstappen with a bit of oversteer.
04:30Railway spinning,
04:31coming out of turn four.
04:33Max Verstappen down the hangar straight.
04:36You see the bridge across the track,
04:38and by the time you go under that bridge,
04:40Charles Leclerc is only a couple of goal lengths
04:41farther back.
04:42Now he's wheel to wheel,
04:43and now he is ahead.
04:44Gets to the Lando stand,
04:45and Charles Leclerc is in fifth place.
04:48Hamilton maybe on ante.
04:49That was crazy.
04:51Yeah, we saw that.
04:52They're breaking so hard.
04:53Yeah, we saw that.
04:56Isaac Hadjar behind Liam Lawson.
04:58And yes, we can look at what was rather irking Isaac Hadjar.
05:02I'm not surprised.
05:04That was a little late there from Liam Lawson.
05:07Yeah, he should have given him some more space.
05:10This man, though, had to put up with being second for a while.
05:13Once he got past Lewis Hamilton,
05:14there was no stopping him.
05:16The youngest ever winner of a sprint race,
05:1919 years of age.
05:20Kimi Antonelli wins the Silverstone Sprint.
05:23Lewis Hamilton comes home
05:25to make second place for Ferrari.
05:28Lando Norris holds off George Russell,
05:30takes third for McLaren.
05:32Russell is fourth,
05:33and perhaps a disappointing result for him.
05:36Across the line now comes Charles Leclerc
05:38and Max Verstappen.
05:40And the battle's still going on
05:41between Liam Lawson and Isaac Hadjar
05:43for the final points place.
05:45Oscar Piastri has seventh.
05:47Lawson has been noted for moving under braking.
05:50Holds off Hadjar.
05:52Might be going to the stewards
05:53at the end of this race.
05:54Into the corner and in tight to take the racing line.
05:58Very impressive, mate.
06:00Very well done.
06:01Let's go.
06:02Let's go.
06:03In control all the way.
06:08Peace, mate.
06:09What up?
06:09Real well done.
06:11Good job.
06:14Just me, guys.
06:15Let's get it right for once, please.
06:19Result there.
06:20I mean, for George Russell.
06:21Yeah, yeah.
06:22Now we'll focus on
06:24to the next one.
06:25Kimi, well done.
06:26Does that fastest lap
06:27make you happy at the end?
06:28Yeah, yeah.
06:29It makes me happier.
06:30Okay.
06:31Yeah.
06:32Yeah.
06:33Yeah.
06:38Yeah, yeah.
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