Norris finished second behind Max Verstappen in last year’s race.
McLaren’s Lando Norris leads Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton around Luffield in the 2023 British Grand Prix
Built on the site of a World War II Royal Air Force bomber station, Silverstone is among the most famous renowned on the Formula One calendar.The first corner at Abbey is flat out. The driver has to throw the front of the car into the corner, and then hang on to it on the exit, because we immediately go into turn two – the Farm Curve. There is also a bit of a bump in there, so if we are too aggressive the car will de-stabilise.
Next, is the slow-speed section of the track, putting the brakes on as we enter Village, which provides an overtaking opportunity, albeit not an easy one by any stretch of the imagination. It is very easy to lock the front-right tyre under braking which compromises our line into the left-hander, The Loop, but the exit is key because the kink at Aintree takes us on to the long Wellington Straight, and the first of two DRS zones.
This has to be the best set of corners in Formula One. The first left at Maggots is a small flick, but at the next right-hander, it is important to carry speed to the point that you use three-quarters of the track. If you use all of the asphalt, it is difficult to get back on line for the next left at Becketts. If you are a little bit wide on the first part it just multiplies the problem through the remaining series of corners.
We dip down on to Vale and then rise up just after the pit entry. We are back on the brakes – it will be bumpy – and again there are two options; carry a lot of speed through the left-hander at Vale and lift through Club, or take a slower approach to Vale and power out of Club Corner. We then pull through the final bend and up and across the start-finish line – renamed the Hamilton straight after Lewis won his record-equalling seventh world championship in 2020 – to complete the lap.
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