Max Verstappen finished the British GP in P2 - a totally unexpected result at the start of the race with a Red Bull that lacked pace.
Max Verstappen surprisingly finished the British GP in second place – a totally unexpected result at the start of the race with a Red Bull that lacked pace.Verstappen’s race was off to the best possible start when he overtook Lando Norris on the outside of Turn 3 in the starting lap. The Red Bull driver looked set to hunt down the Mercedes’ of Lewis Hamilton and George Russell early on, but nothing could have been further from the truth.
Before making the crossover to the intermediates for more rain on track, his gap to Norris at the front of the race was 14 seconds. And his gap to Russell’s Mercedes in fourth was +9.7s. Even Carlos Sainz in the Ferrari was in a position to pass him to relegate him to P6, just ahead of Nico Hülkenberg.
Verstappen’s gap just before he stopped for the intermediate tyre was over +13s to leader Norris and +10.256s to Russell in P4. A lap later, he regained P4 due to Russell losing time in the pits waiting for Hamilton to stop at a Mercedes double stack. And the gap to Norris was down to +6.6s. The RB20 seemed to come back to life just in time as the track started to dry out again. The Red Bull driver closed the gap to Norris to +7.5s and to Hamilton to +5.6s. Perhaps Max was just managing his tyres so that he could push again in the final moments before the crossover to slicks.
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