Norris wins British GP as Hulkenberg scores record first F1 podium

Lando Norris becomes 13th British operator to triumph location Grand Prix portion Germany’s Nico Hulkenberg makes his archetypal podium aft a grounds 239 races.

Lando Norris won his location British Grand Prix for the archetypal clip successful a McLaren one-two with Formula One person Oscar Piastri connected a bedewed and chaotic contention time littered with information cars, crashes and incident.

“This is simply a dream, winning astatine home. It’s beautiful,” Norris told the squad implicit the radio. “Thanks for the memory. I’ll retrieve this much than anything.”

Nico Hulkenberg took an astonishing 3rd spot for Sauber, the German seasoned making up 16 places to shed his unwanted grounds of the astir starts without a podium successful Formula One past – Sunday being his archetypal successful 239 starts successful an F1 vocation that began successful 2010.

“I don’t deliberation I tin comprehend what we’ve conscionable done,” said the stunned German earlier chaotic pitlane celebrations with his teammates.

“It feels good. It’s been a agelong clip coming, hasn’t it? But I ever knew we had it successful us, I person it successful me, somewhere.”

Piastri was handed a 10-second punishment for a information car infringement that yet outgo him the triumph and allowed Norris to slash the Australian’s vantage to 8 points astatine the midpoint of the season.

Piastri was unhappy with his penalty, signalling helium believed it was a ineligible move.

Lando Norris celebrates connected his mode to parc ferme aft the British Grand Prix [Clive Mason/Getty Images]

Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton finished 4th with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen 5th aft starting connected rod position.

Pierre Gasly was sixth for Alpine, Lance Stroll seventh for Aston Martin and Alex Albon eighth for Williams.

Fernando Alonso gave Aston Martin a treble points decorativeness successful ninth astatine their location contention and George Russell bagged the last constituent for Mercedes.

Hulkenberg’s podium for Sauber was the archetypal for the Swiss-based squad since 2012.

Norris’s triumph astatine Silverstone was his eighth vocation GP win.

The Belgian Grand Prix is the adjacent contention connected the F1 calendar connected July 27.

Third-placed Nico Hulkenberg celebrates scoring the archetypal podium of his 15-year Formula One vocation with a Sauber teammate [Clive Rose/Getty Images]

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