How Max Verstappen stole victory away from Mercedes at Silverstone - F1 News 08 08 20

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Max Verstappen clinched a convincing victory ahead of both Mercedes drivers on Sunday at Silverstone. The Dutch driver won the race after Red Bull's disruptive strategy managed to wrong-foot Mercedes. Hamilton and Bottas struggled throughout the race with tyre blistering but would still have been in a race of their own had Verstappen not forced himself into the mix.

It was always going to be a more unpredictable race than last weekend's British Grand Prix, thanks to Pirelli bringing along tyres that were a step softer than last week's, meaning this week's Medium was last week's Soft, and so on.

The seeds of the victory were sown on Saturday afternoon at the start of Q2. The drivers must start the race on the tyres used to set their fastest time in this session, meaning there's a chance to roll the dice with strategy. It's a delicate balancing act, as drivers need to place in the top ten to get into Q3, while also thinking about keeping their tyres in optimum condition for the first stint of the race.

Mercedes, with their ultimate one lap pace seemingly out of touch of anyone else, went for the Medium compound, as did pretty much everyone else. However, Verstappen went for the Hard compound. Pirelli said this tyre was half a second slower than the Mediums, so it was a stellar effort from Max to put in a time less than a second slower than what Valtteri Bottas managed. He made it into Q3 by just 0.106 seconds, and the crucial first step was done.

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