Overall, a dominating race weekend for Mercedes, dominating in practice, dominating in qualifying, and most importantly dominating in the race for Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton was on pole for Sunday's race. In a dry overcast British Grand Prix, Hamilton took the advantage at the start and comfortably lead the race throughout to lead all the laps and the fastest lap of the race to conclude with a fifth home race win in this seasons British Grand Prix for Hamilton's fourth race win of the season.
While, Hamilton's team-mate and Valtteri Bottas finished in second place in the other Mercedes to give the team its second one-two finish of the season, Bottas was fourteen seconds behind Hamilton at the end.
Meanwhile, Kimi Räikkönen finished in third place in the Ferrari to complete the podium, Räikkönen was thirty-seven seconds behind Hamilton at the end of the fifty-one lap race.
Highlights of the race below, enjoy.
Rate the Teams and Drivers
Mercedes - 9
Lewis Hamilton - 10 (pole, race win and fastest lap)
Valtteri Bottas - 8 (finished second)
Red Bull Racing - 8
Daniel Ricciardo - 8 (finished fifth)
Max Verstappen - 8 (finished fourth)
Ferrari - 7
Sebastian Vettel - 7 (finished seventh)
Kimi Räikkönen - 8 (finished third)
Force India - 6
Sergio Pérez - 6 (finished ninth, lap down)
Esteban Ocon - 7 (finished eighth, lap down)
Williams - 5
Felipe Massa - 6 (finished tenth, lap down)
Lance Stroll - 4 (finished sixteenth, lap down)
McLaren - 7
Fernando Alonso - 7 (DNF, Power unit)
Stoffel Vandoorne - 7 (finished eleventh, lap down)
Toro Rosso - 3
Carlos Sainz Jr. - 3 (DNF, Collision with Kvyat)
Daniil Kvyat - 3 (finished fifteenth, lap down)
Haas - 5
Romain Grosjean - 5 (finished thirteenth, lap down)
Kevin Magnussen - 5 (finished twelfth, lap down)
Renault - 8
Nico Hülkenberg - 10 (finished sixth)
Jolyon Palmer - 6 (DNS, hydraulics failure)
Sauber - 4
Marcus Ericsson - 5 (finished fourteenth, lap down)
Pascal Wehrlein - 4 (finished seventeenth, lap down)
Next stop Hungaroring for the Hungarian Grand Prix in two weeks time.
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