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Fans at Silverstone watched the Ferrari driver hold onto his victory as a three-way battle ensued behind him late in the incident-packed grand prix.

And there’s no doubt we had the pace to come back to P6 today.” After barrel-rolling over the barrier, Zhou was stuck between the metal fence and tire barriers, a narrow gap with nowhere to go. The rookie and Williams driver Alex Albon, who was involved in a separate wreck, were both sent to the medical care center. “I don’t want the focus to be pointed towards my disappointing race but more towards his incredible race win and obviously a first win in Formula 1 is always extremely special. Pierre Gasly was between Russell and Zhou, but as the gap started to disappear, the AlphaTauri driver pulled back. Sainz was brought in for softs, and Leclerc commented over the radio how it would be “hard” to chase cars on soft tires in the closing stages. Binotto felt that the team’s strategy calls were “the right and proper ones at each single time,” and the only possible miscue was Leclerc staying out. “I’ve always been a team player, I will always be a team player and especially in Ferrari, I know the team is in front of me and my personal interests. “I gave myself the best chance to stay ahead, by pushing as much as I could, but to a point that I was destroying so much my front tire that it made total sense for Charles to go through, and I let him by as soon as the team told me to do so,” Sainz said. “Then we were hoping for more tire degradation on the softs, to give Charles, yeah, maybe a difficult three or four laps initially but then recovering later on, but the soft didn’t degrade as we were hoping.” Leclerc, who was the race leader, remained out on his hard tires—the only driver to still have them on when the rest of the field emerged. “I needed to stay in the race like I was trying to and then all of a sudden the safety car gave me the opportunity to get back on it.

Sky F1's Karun Chandhok hails the halo device that helped save the lives of both Zhou Guanyu in Formula One and Roy Nissany in Formula Two. Carlos Sainz has ...

The most important thing today is no one got hurt." I find it incredible that you can come out of it." "When I saw it, I was completely shocked," explained Sainz. "It was incredible. He returned to the paddock later on Sunday. "They've saved probably two lives. Zhou Guanyu was flipped upside down and over the barriers at the start of the British GP while in the F2 support race, Dennis Hauger's car landed on top of Roy Nissany's; "We sometimes criticise the FIA but you need to give it to them," said Silverstone F1 winner Carlos Sainz

As Rene Arnoux celebrates his 74th birthday, Mirror Sport remembers the major moments from the career of the seven-time race winner who came close to world ...

Three wins in the 1983 season gave him a strong chance of becoming a world champion for himself, but then he suffered an engine failure in the final race and ended up finishing the year third. As a result, the reaction from the French fans was more split than it would usually have been, and the rift between the two drivers meant Arnoux was to move on at the end of the year, joining another compatriot at Ferrari in Patrick Tambay. The Ferrari racer crossed the line just two tenths of a second ahead, but both were treated like heroes by the crowd that adored them for the exciting show they had put on – and both racers received that adulation as one in an inspiring display of mutual respect.

Sebastian Vettel sympathised with the environmental 'fears and anxieties' of the protesters who invaded Sunday's race at Silverstone, but recognised they ...

"So yes, I support the cause, I think Formula 1 is doing a great job already to try and go carbon zero by 2030. "On the other hand, I see the other side. It later confirmed that seven people had been arrested for the incident.

Zhou Guanyu's horror accident at the start of Formula 1's British Grand Prix will, like every crash, be investigated in depth by the FIA.

Then that was followed by a continuous longitudinal load as it scraped along the track. All teams have to go through the crash tests on this before their cars are allowed on track. In all circumstances, the choice of a blade roll structure has been favoured over a traditional hoop owing to two factors: aerodynamic gains and weight.

Chinese driver Zhou Guanyu credited the 'halo' for keeping him alive following his harrowing first-corner crash at Sunday's British Grand Prix.