Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton won the British Grand Prix for the third year in a row. It is his overall 4th British Grand Prix title after winning it in 2008, 2014 and 2015. It was also his 4th title of the 2016 season after Monaco Grand Prix , Canadian Grand Prix and Austrian Grand Prix. Rosberg in the other Mercedes was left to battle back to second past the Red Bull of the impressive Max Verstappen.
- British Grand Prix was the tenth race of the 2016 season and was held at the Silverstone Circuit near the village of Silverstone in Northamptonshire in England.
- Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton, MBE is a British Formula One racing driver from England, currently racing for the Mercedes AMG Petronas team.
- This is Hamilton’s 47th career victory.
- Hamilton is now just one point behind his Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg after a superb lights-to-flag victory in front of a record Silverstone crowd.
- Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo ended their day in third and fourth places, respectively.