Kimi Antonelli is back in the winner\u2019s column, taking the first sprint race victory of his Formula 1 career on Saturday at Silverstone.<\/p>\n
The 19-year-old started second behind home favorite Lewis Hamilton and swept past the seven-time world champion on Lap 8 of 17 to take the lead.<\/p>\n
Lando Norris, another of five British drivers in this year\u2019s field, improved from a starting position of sixth to finish third. But he crossed the line almost 10 seconds behind the top two.<\/p>\n
Hamilton held off Antonelli at the start of the first of two races this weekend, and the pair built up a comfortable gap to a train of drivers behind them.<\/p>\n
Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc, George Russell and Norris all exchanged places over the opening laps, as the reality of managing engine energy around Silverstone became clear.<\/p>\n
Energy deployment came into play on the move for the lead, with Antonelli pestering Hamilton into Village eight laps in and forcing the Ferrari driver to use up much of his battery energy holding him off.<\/p>\n
On the Hangar Straight later in the same lap, there was nothing Hamilton could do as the Mercedes moved past him. The seven-time world champion was then unable to eat into the near three-second gap that Antonelli built up to the finish.<\/p>\n
Russell recovered from a scrappy start to finish fourth, Leclerc came fifth, Verstappen finished where he started in sixth, while Oscar Piastri could not improve on seventh. Liam Lawson took the race’s final point in eighth.<\/p>\n
Results:<\/p>\n
1 Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes<\/p>\n
2 Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari<\/p>\n
3 Lando Norris, McLaren<\/p>\n
4 George Russell, Mercedes<\/p>\n
5 Charles Leclerc, Ferrari<\/p>\n
6 Max Verstappen, Red Bull<\/p>\n
7 Oscar Piastri, McLaren<\/p>\n
8 Liam Lawson, Racing Bulls<\/p>\n
9 Isack Hadjar, Red Bull<\/p>\n
10 Arvid Lindblad, Racing Bulls<\/p>\n
11 Pierre Gasly, Alpine<\/p>\n
12 Franco Colapinto, Alpine<\/p>\n
13 Nico H\u00fclkenberg, Audi<\/p>\n
14 Gabriel Bortoleto, Audi<\/p>\n
15 Ollie Bearman, Haas<\/p>\n
16 Esteban Ocon, Haas<\/p>\n
17 Carlos Sainz, Williams<\/p>\n
18 Alex Albon, Williams<\/p>\n
19 Valtteri Bottas, Cadillac<\/p>\n
20 Fernando Alonso, Aston Martin<\/p>\n
21 Lance Stroll, Aston Martin<\/p>\n
22 Sergio P\u00e9rez, Cadillac<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kimi Antonelli is back in the winner\u2019s column, taking the first sprint race victory of his Formula 1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-779887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}