The 2022 British Grand Prix may have started with horrifying scenes, but it ended with surely the best period of racing so far this season – and to the eyes of many, the best in years.
What’s interesting is that in the modern era a good Silverstone race isn’t guaranteed as the high-speed track layout used to practically guarantee the higher-downforce and therefore faster cars were very hard to catch and pass. That scenario may indeed have come to pass had Max Verstappen not been unfortunate when running over a piece of AlphaTauri bodywork once he’d got ahead of Carlos Sainz after throwing away pole with a poor final sector. That was a bigger factor than lifting for the yellow flag following Charles Leclerc’s brief spin…
