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Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz claims first F1 win ahead of Pérez in dramatic British GP

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Carlos Sainz won an incident-packed and dramatic British Grand Prix for Ferrari after China’s Guanyu Zhou escaped from an enormous accident.

Sergio Pérez was second for Red Bull while Lewis Hamilton equalled his best finish of the season with a magnificent third place after an absolutely thrilling fight at Silverstone.

Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was in fourth with Alpine’s Fernando Alonso in fifth. Championship leader Max Verstappen could manage only seventh after he took damage.

It was Sainz’s first F1 win on the occasion of his 150th race and could not have been a more gripping affair. The Spaniard had to fight hard in a unpredictable race and take every chance to seal the place to become only the second Spaniard to win in F1, alongside Alonso.

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SILVERSTONE, UK: Carlos Sainz claimed his first Formula One victory in his 150th race on Sunday when he drove his Ferrari to a spectacular triumph in a furious and crash-hit British Grand Prix. The 27-year-old Spaniard, starting from his maiden pole position, resisted a charging Sergio Perez of Red Bull, who recovered from 17th, to take the flag by 3.7 seconds in front of a record 142,000 crowd at the high-speed Silverstone circuit. Home hero seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes took third, to claim a record 13th podium finish on home soil, an unprecedented total by any driver at a single event.
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