SILVERSTONE, England \u2014 Charles Leclerc took his first Formula 1 win in nearly two years at the British Grand Prix on Sunday after standings leader Kimi Antonelli’s challenge was derailed by damage to his car.<\/p>\n
Leclerc surged past Antonelli at the start as the Mercedes driver dropped to third but the Italian was chasing Leclerc down in the final laps when he reported a steering problem.<\/p>\n
A pit stop didn’t help, and Antonelli dropped back through the field. After Antonelli’s problems, a spectacular spin into the gravel from third by Max Verstappen shook up the race again.<\/p>\n
Antonelli’s Mercedes teammate and title rival George Russell went on to second to deny Ferrari a one-two finish, staying out when Lewis Hamilton came into the pits.<\/p>\n
Hamilton had fresh tires but couldn’t use them because the race finished behind the safety car. He crossed the line third.<\/p>\n
Leclerc\u2019s last Grand Prix victory was at the United States Grand Prix in October 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SILVERSTONE, England \u2014 Charles Leclerc took his first Formula 1 win in nearly two years at the British…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-782249","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\/782249","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=782249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}