Silverstone.- It will be the first time you compete there dressed in the red Ferraribut Lewis Hamilton He will try to be faithful to his history this weekend and get in ‘his’ Grand Prix of Great Britain of Formula 1 which would be his first victory with the Italian team.
Silverstone is a track-talisman for the veteran English pilot, who a year ago won the Grand Prix of his country, then ending a drought of almost a thousand days without victory with Mercedes.
Since then, ‘King Lewis’ has passed Ferrari and hopes to extend his spectacular statistics to the emblematic British circuit to that team.
In Silverstone, the seven -time world champion is the pilot who has defeated the most times (9) and aspires to add a tenth triumph there, something that no one has ever achieved in the same circuit of Formula 1.
A Hamilton triumph at home would be a great relief for the Scuderia, the only one of the leading teams that has not won any great prize of the eleven played so far in this 2025.
Hamilton is also waiting for his first podium with Ferrari. If you fail to end on Top 3 on Sunday, I would end a streak of fifteen consecutive podiums in Silverstone, something that is a record in the same circuit.
“I am not one of those who look at statistics. But being in Silverstone, it would be the ideal place” for a reunion with the victory, Hamilton said Thursday.
McLaren, fight at the top
Thanks to an improved version of his SF-25, which allowed Hamilton and his partner Charles Leclerc to be a fourth and third one in the previous Grand Prix, that of Austria, the Italian team has risen to second place in the general classification of builders, just with one more point than Mercedes.
“The improvements we have introduced in Spielberg (the Austrian Grand Prix circuit) have surely had their weight for the good result of last Sunday,” defended Ferrari’s patron, Frédéric Vasseur.
“We want to capitalize on this positive dynamic before the next race,” he said.
Ferrari, however, seems far behind the superpotent monoplays of McLaren, which in the Constructors General have more than 200 points ahead.
The Woking team, winner of eight of the first eleven major awards of the season, is now out of reach of the rest.
In Austria, his two pilots – the World Cup leader, Oscar Piastri, and the British Lando Norris – gave a duel of high flights with the mountains of stretch of the backdrop.
In the goal, Norris won the race ahead of Piastri and thus approached 15 points from his companions of Australian team in the championship.
New rumors about Verstappen
Third in the general, the current world champion Max Verstappen (Red Bull) is distanced to 61 points from the head.
Forced to leave last weekend after an accident with the Mercedes of Andrea Kimi Antonelli (the Italian was considered responsible for what was sanctioned with three positions on the departure grid), the Dutch suffered a brake in his persecution of the McLaren and even saw the British to the British George Russell (Mercedes), which he only exceeds nine points.
To this abandonment, the 16th and last position of Japanese Yuki Tsunoda was added, which closed a day to forget Red Bull, which did not sign any point for the first time since March 2022.
After that nightmare Sunday, Red Bull is the fourth of the general and sees his other great rivals move away, something that could make Verstappen to change airs in the near future, despite having a contract with Red Bull until the end of 2028.
According to Sky Sports Italia, ‘Mad Max’ would be in advanced negotiations with Mercedes by 2026. If they came to fruition, the Dutch pilot could occupy Russell’s hole there and make a pair with Antonelli, after eleven seasons with Red Bull.
“There is no decision at the moment,” Verstappen replied this Thursday at the questions of journalists in Silverstone.
