British F1 Grand Prix 2016 Results: Winner, Standings, Highlights and Reaction

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Published: July 10, 2016

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Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton continued his resurgence in the 2016 Formula One season at Silverstone on Sunday, as he raced to a win in the British Grand Prix.

It’s the third time in a row the British driver has sampled victory in his home grand prix, taking the chequered flag ahead of team-mate Nico Rosberg and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, who were second and third, respectively.

The win here means Hamilton has reduced the gap to Rosberg to four points in the driver standings ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix in a fortnight's time.

The official Formula One Twitter feed provided the provisional race result:



Here are the overall standings following Hamilton's fourth win in the British Grand Prix:



 

Hamilton Triumphs on Home Soil With the beginning of the race edging closer, news filtered through that the race would start behind the safety car at Silverstone due to wet weather. As F1 journalist James Allen noted, at least there were blue skies on the horizon:



After a few laps behind the safety car, the drivers start to get frustrated. “The safety car is really slow, so we can't get temperature up,” complained Hamilton on the team radio as the drivers continued to amble around, per Sky Sports F1. 

Eventually, five laps in, the safety car did retire. The four leaders all stayed out on the wet track, but there was a mad dash for the pit lane with plenty putting on the intermediate tyre.



When Hamilton, an expert in changing conditions, darted away again following another virtual safety car, he was quick to put some distance between himself and his team-mate. As the Mercedes Twitter feed noted, the gap was oscillating as the drivers went on the hunt for grip.



Rosberg, in particular, was finding it particularly difficult and Verstappen, in the Red Bull, was ga...
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