El Campeon Mundial de Formula Uno Lewis Hamilton superó a su compañero de equipo en Mercedes Nico Rosberg para adjudicarse el Gran Premio de F1 de Silverstone, con Max Verstappen de Red Bulls en tercer lugar, para quedar a 4 puntos del primer lugar.
La Dirección de Carrera en Silverstone, determino dar comienzo detrás del coche de seguridad cuando ya hacía más de 10 minutos que había parado de llover. Suerte tiene el Mundial de haberse inventado a Max Verstappen, un irreverente genio de 18 años que ha puesto el campeonato patas arriba para suerte de la hinchada. En Gran Bretaña fue Lewis Hamilton quien se llevó la victoria aunque la mayoría de aplausos se los llevó el holandés de Red Bull, que finalmente terminó el tercero. Mad Max plantó un muro delante de Nico Rosberg, que estuvo seis vueltas (de la 32 a la 38) tratando de adelantarle y que a punto estuvo de terminar medio desquiciado. fue normal la carrera en Inglaterra,
The 2016 Formula 1 British Grand Prix started on a soaked circuit, but ended with the sun shining down on Lewis Hamilton as the world champion beat Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg to secure his fourth F1 win at Silverstone, with Max Verstappen a fighting third for Red Bull.
The opening laps were run behind the safety car after a heavy downpour shortly before the start, but once it had peeled off it was non-stop action as the track gradually dried, prompting the field to switch first from wet to intermediate tyres, and then to slick rubber from around one-third distance.
As Hamilton controlled from the front to cut his championship deficit to just four points, Rosberg and Verstappen were locked in battle for much off the afternoon, both men pulling off superb passes on the other.
Just 1.3s separated them at the flag, as Rosberg held on despite late transmission issues which required him to avoid using seventh gear. However, the German is under investigation over the radio instructions Mercedes gave him relating to the problem.
Daniel Ricciardo was a distant fourth in the second Red Bull, with Kimi Raikkonen an even more distant fifth in what was a dismal afternoon for Ferrari. Team mate Sebastian Vettel was ninth after picking up a penalty for forcing another car off track.
The Force Indias of Sergio Perez and Nico Hulkenberg took sixth and seventh places, with the top ten completed by the Toro Rossos of Carlos Sainz and Daniil Kvyat in eighth and tenth respectively.
After the heavens had opened 15 minutes before the start, and the first five laps run behind the safety car, the track was ready for intermediate Pirelli tyres in place of the mandatory wets on which everyone had started.