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Sebastian Vettel
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Sebastian Vettel
Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel took victory in a nail-biting race at the British Grand Prix. Completing the podium was home favourite Lewis Hamilton and Vettel’s teammate Kimi Raikkonen respectively. Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo took fifth behind the struggling Mercedes of Valtteri Bottas.
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Renault’s Nico Hulkenberg was delighted with 6th ahead of Esteban Ocon’s Force India. Fernando Alonso battled his way to 8th ahead of Kevin Magnussen and Pierre Gasly in 10th. The 2018 British Grand Prix was quite eventful to say the least. There was plenty of action up and down the order. It was first triggered when Raikkonen tagged Hamilton, sending the latter into a spin.
Meanwhile, at the back, Sergio Perez spun off and nearly swiped one of the startled Williams drivers. Unfortunately, Brendon Hartley was unable to make the start of the race and he became the first casualty. Sometime later, Charles LeClerc’s point-scoring run was rudely interrupted as he encountered an unexpected issue.
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Sebastian Vettel
With 21 laps left, Marcus Ericsson in the other Sauber brought out the safety car with a high-speed crash. Fortunately, he emerged from the car unscathed. Barely a couple of laps after the safety car came in, it was brought out again. This time, Romain Grosjean and Carlos Sainz collided.
6 laps from the finish, Max Verstappen spun but rejoined. But he later pulled over to retire from the race. Meanwhile, things were heating up at the front as both Ferraris hounded the Mercedes. What helped their case was the fact that Vettel and Raikkonen were on fresh tires. As it turned out, the Ferraris pitted during the first safety car along with both Red Bulls.
This meant that Hamilton and Bottas were pretty much vulnerable to attack. Bottas’ situation was worse off because he dropped to 4th from 1st. With this victory, Vettel has assumed the lead in the championship.
Here is how social media reacted to the race.
Awesome fight between top 4 @MercedesAMGF1 and @ScuderiaFerrari. Second best race of the season imo #F1 #BritishGP 👍🏻
— Val (@valvolinets) July 8, 2018
https://twitter.com/LucyRob_/status/1016001514811351043
How to trigger a Hamilton fan#BritishGP pic.twitter.com/mPxA1r2v42
— Ryan (@FK_Silent) July 8, 2018
Hamilton cudnt win d #britishgp n they lost the t20 also..’Not a great day for #England.’ Hope it’s the last time i am saying this for next 8 days! #fingerscrossed #threelions
— Inter Finter (@SlientGuardian) July 8, 2018
@MercedesAMGF1 no excuses this time around. Should've pitted Valterri on the first SC and you guys could've had both your drivers on the podium. #BritishGP
— Pareel Amre (@eternal_bard) July 8, 2018
#BritishGP Great victory by Sebastian opens up championship race with a lead of 8 points
— sakthi. 🇮🇳 (@sakthi1964) July 8, 2018
https://twitter.com/ramsl001_luke/status/1016001264226795521
A great win for @ScuderiaFerrari & @bcci in #F1 & #Cricket. Now that’s a great Sunday!!😊😊#ENGvIND #T20I #F1 #ForzaFerrari #BritishGP
— K (@kishragu) July 8, 2018
great race and well deserved 2nd from Lewis! #f1 #britishgp #silverstone @ Silverstone https://t.co/qFjblaKQ2z
— Kevin Hall (@KevinHallf1) July 8, 2018
I'd also like to point out for the record that the turn 3 incident is not what cost Hamilton a probable victory. His bad start did that. #BritishGP #F1
— IndyCarMathGuru (@IndyCarMathGuru) July 8, 2018
Arrivabene on Allison's comments:
If he really said that, he should be ashamed. He worked many years at Ferrari. We are in England, where they teach you to be gentlemen, but he should be the first.
Ouch. #BritishGP #Ferrari #Mercedes https://t.co/FNMM1PmWKi
— S A O I R S E (@F1Saoirse) July 8, 2018
Ferrari knew what they was doing. Is anything out of the line of cheating these days. This is almost as bad as Schumacher crash against Damon Hill. #F1 needs to investigate this and stamp it out. #Ferrari will not take this world championship by cheating. #BritishGP #F1 #Ferrari
— Templar Knight 🏴🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🎄⛄ (@AJ_Twina) July 8, 2018
https://twitter.com/HeelSagar/status/1016000757907111937
Kimi gave us a true glimpse of real racing. He was punished! Shows why @f1 run by tools! Give us big racing. Lewis can't stand racing! Bit Petculant! Sauber 🌟! @JeanTodt @Ferrari @MBrundleF1 @becclancy @fia @WilliamsRacing @benjhunt @HillF1 @F1 @McLarenF1 #BritishGP
— #justsaying (@SelmesLtd) July 8, 2018
#BritishGP has Hamilton ever lost a race and not had a moan about something? If he was more like Ricardo, more people would like him.
— 8ball75 (@8ballwakefield) July 8, 2018
https://twitter.com/JodieSwafford/status/1016000468420526081
@wtf1official #WTF1 #BritishGP Me as a Vettel fan when Vettel passes Bottas to take the lead and then realizes that Bottas has yet to win pic.twitter.com/NACemeC7EV
— The_Artemisian (@The_Artemisian) July 8, 2018
Get in! A fantastic Ferrari win yet again – great job by the team and drivers. Terrific. 🏁👊🍻🏆🏆#BritishGP
— Paul Jones (@PaulRRed1) July 8, 2018
.@Ericsson_Marcus' race comes to an abrupt halt at Turn 1 #BritishGP 🇬🇧 #F1 pic.twitter.com/Uj6IN4q3Xc
— Formula 1 (@F1) July 8, 2018
https://twitter.com/leftcodee/status/1016003938460372992
Wow, what a superb #BritishGP – some great racing today!#ForzaFerrari
— Andrew S-W (@Andrew_SW) July 8, 2018
Phenomenal comeback drive from @LewisHamilton today, fully earning his @f1 DOTD prize. You'd take P2 as damage limitation after ending the first lap in 18th place… #BritishGP 🇬🇧
— 130R Performance (@130Rperform) July 8, 2018
https://twitter.com/f1writers/status/1016003729961705472
@JensonButton and @danielricciardo have an adorable bromance that I didn't know existed until today #BritishGP
— Kat Hastings (@kat_hastings1) July 8, 2018
Interviews should be on the podium. For goodness sake @F1 give them some space and time to recover. All so awkward. What do you think @MBrundleF1 ? #BritishGP
— Ian Smyth (@Essex_Grouch) July 8, 2018
Bad Omen? Lewis Hamilton has never won a title in a season where he hasn’t won the #BritishGP. #F1
— Lights Out ●●●●● (@LightsOutF1Blog) July 8, 2018
This race was everything 😍
It spiced up for me just when I was crying about my boring weekend 😂😜 thank you so much #BritishGP #F1 #Ferrari— V A I B H A V A❤️ (@brainlostpanda) July 8, 2018
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