 Starting in the top three, hopes were high ahead of the British Grand Prix and it delivered with a thriller as Lewis Hamilton, after two and a half years, finally returned to the top step of the podium to set the record of nine British Grand Prix wins with mixed conditions forcing drivers and teams to make the right tyre calls at the right time. Some got it right, others didn't, in what saw at one point four drivers all in the fight for the win. For pole sitter George Russell it wasn't to be and he ultimately retired with a car issue. Lando Norris had to settle for third