Lewis Hamilton returns home atop the Drivers’ Championship standings after three races, but will the defending champion increase his lead at the summit with more Silverstone success over the course of this weekend?

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Hamilton endured a pretty miserable start to the season as penalties in both qualifying and the race cost him points, but the Mercedes ace has bounced back in emphatic fashion to overhaul team-mate Valtteri Bottas in the standings. Hamilton took the chequered flag in the first ever Styrian Grand Prix before posting a dominant victory in the Hungarian Grand Prix a week later, and that has set him up nicely for his return home to the United Kingdom for the first of two back-to-back race weekends at Silverstone.

But can the defending world champion continue his hot streak with victory in the British Grand Prix, or will team-mate Bottas answer back by recording his second race win of the season. One thing that is for sure is that Ferrari will not be getting in the way of the Mercedes pair – team chairman John Elkann has admitted the team will not be competitive again until at least 2022 following a truly miserable start to the season that has seen Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel combine for just 27 points, putting them fourth in the standings behind Mercedes, Red Bull, McLaren and Racing Point.

It is difficult to see Red Bull denying the Mercedes pair either – they are 66 points behind Hamilton and Bottas in the Constructors’ Championship so if you are looking to back a race winner this weekend you simply cannot look past the Silver Arrows. The question is, which one of them will be victorious? The answer has to be Lewis Hamilton.

The British star became the most successful driver in the history of his historic race when he took the chequered flag for the sixth time in his career in 2019, and he has not won this race in five of the last six seasons to establish his Silverstone dominance. And going by what we have seen from Hamilton in the past and over the last few weeks it is incredibly difficult to see that trend coming to an end this weekend. It will be another successful homecoming for the Brit, and a flawless one at that.

Hamilton has started from pole position at Silverstone in four of the last five years, has set the fastest lap in four of the last six British Grand Prix, and he has completed the pole position/fastest lap/race win treble on two occasions here. He also completed this treble at the Hungaroring a fortnight ago, so there is a huge amount of appeal in backing him to dominate this weekend and complete another Silverstone hat-trick.

Circuit Guide

Silverstone first hosted the British Grand Prix back in 1948 and having shared it with Aintree and Brands Hatch for almost 40 years, the Northamptonshire/Buckinghamshire circuit became the sole host of the British leg of the Formula 1 calendar from 1987. The length of the track has shortened over the years, while one of the biggest changes saw officials make the entry from Hangar Straight into Stowe Corner less dangerous following the tragic deaths of Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger at Imola in 1994. There have also been some additions to the circuit to accommodate MotoGP racing, but they have had no effect on the Formula 1 race. Lewis Hamilton surpassed Jim Clark and Alain Prost as the most successful driver in the history of the British Grand Prix when he won his ‘home’ grand prix for the sixth time in his career in 2019.

Location: Silverstone, Northamptonshire & Buckinghamshire, England
Number Of Laps: 52
Lap Length: 3.66 miles
Lap Record (current format): Lewis Hamilton, 1 minute 27.369 seconds (2019)

 

 

British Grand Prix Winners

YEAR	DRIVER	TEAM	CIRCUIT
1926	Louis Wager Robert Senechal	Delage	Brooklands
1927	Robert Benoist	Delage	Brooklands
1948	Luigi Villoresi	Maserati	Silverstone
1949	Emmanuel de Graffenreid	Maserati	Silverstone
1950	Giuseppe Farina	Alfa Romeo	Silverstone
1951	Jose Froilan Gonzalez	Ferrari	Silverstone
1952	Alberto Ascari	Ferrari	Silverstone
1953	Alberto Ascari	Ferrari	Silverstone
1954	Jose Froilan Gonzalez	Ferrari	Silverstone
1955	Stirling Moss	Mercedes	Aintree
1956	Juan-Manuel Fangio	Lancia-Ferrari	Silverstone
1957	Stirling Moss Tony Brooks	Vanwall	Aintree
1958	Peter Collins	Ferrari	Silverstone
1959	Jack Brabham	Cooper-Climax	Aintree
1960	Jack Brabham	Cooper-Climax	Silverstone
1961	Wolfgang von Trips	Ferrari	Aintree
1962	Jim Clark	Lotus-Climax	Aintree
1963	Jim Clark	Lotus-Climax	Silverstone
1964	Jim Clark	Lotus-Climax	Brands Hatch
1965	Jim Clark	Lotus-Climax	Silverstone
1966	Jack Brabham	Brabham-Repco	Brands Hatch
1967	Jim Clark	Lotus-Ford	Silverstone
1968	Jo Siffert	Lotus-Ford	Brands Hatch
1969	Jackie Stewart	Matra-Ford	Silverstone
1970	Jochen Rindt	Lotus-Ford	Brands Hatch
1971	Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell-Ford	Silverstone
1972	Emerson Fittipaldi	Lotus-Ford	Brands Hatch
1973	Peter Revson	McLaren-Ford	Silverstone
1974	Jody Scheckter	Tyrrell-Ford	Brands Hatch
1975	Emerson Fittipaldi	McLaren-Ford	Silverstone
1976	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	Brands Hatch
1977	James Hunt	McLaren-Ford	Silverstone
1978	Carlos Reutemann	Ferrari	Brands Hatch
1979	Clay Regazzoni	Williams-Ford	Silverstone
1980	Alan Jones	Williams-Ford	Brands Hatch
1981	John Watson	McLaren-Ford	Silverstone
1982	Niki Lauda	McLaren-Ford	Brands Hatch
1983	Alain Prost	Renault	Silverstone
1984	Niki Lauda	McLaren-TAG	Brands Hatch
1985	Alain Prost	McLaren-TAG	Silverstone
1986	Nigel Mansell	Williams-Honda	Brands Hatch
1987	Nigel Mansell	Williams-Honda	Silverstone
1988	Ayrton Senna	McLaren-Honda	Silverstone
1989	Alain Prost	McLaren-Honda	Silverstone
1990	Alain Prost	Ferrari	Silverstone
1991	Nigel Mansell	Williams-Renault	Silverstone
1992	Nigel Mansell	Williams-Renault	Silverstone
1993	Alain Prost	Williams-Renault	Silverstone
1994	Damon Hill	Williams-Renault	Silverstone
1995	Johnny Herbert	Benetton-Renault	Silverstone
1996	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams-Renault	Silverstone
1997	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams-Renault	Silverstone
1998	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	Silverstone
1999	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes	Silverstone
2000	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes	Silverstone
2001	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren Mercedes	Silverstone
2002	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	Silverstone
2003	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari	Silverstone
2004	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	Silverstone
2005	Juan Pablo Montoya	McLaren-Mercedes	Silverstone
2006	Fernando Alonso	Renault	Silverstone
2007	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	Silverstone
2008	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	Silverstone
2009	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	Silverstone
2010	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	Silverstone
2011	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	Silverstone
2012	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	Silverstone
2013	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	Silverstone
2014	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	Silverstone
2015	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	Silverstone
2016	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	Silverstone
2017	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	Silverstone
2018	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	Silverstone
2019	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	Silverstone