This weekend sees the return of Formula One following a one week break due to the sport doing a triple header at the French, Styrian and Austrian GPs where Red Bull’s Max Verstappen managed to win all three races, stretching his lead in this year’s Driver’s Championship to 32 points ahead of Mercedes’ seven-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton.
Last season’s two British GPs at Silverstone saw plenty of drama as in the initial one there were three tyre blowouts which lead to Valtteri Bottas dropping back from second place to 11th with just three laps to go, which gave Verstappen a chance to pit to guarantee the safety of his tyres, before Hamilton had a tyre blowout down the hangar straight and managed to crawl over the line to win, having his lead cut from 30 seconds to six in dramatic fashion.
Meanwhile, the second of the two GPs at Silverstone last season was named as the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix, of which qualifying saw the grid start as Bottas, Hamilton, Nico Hulkenberg in the Racing Point (now Aston Martin) and Verstappen in that order, but the German was passed immediately at the first corner by the Red Bull man who charged his way past both of the Mercedes in the pits and out on track due to tyre wear issues for the German constructor.