Formula One’s biggest star hasn’t won a Grand Prix since 2021, making him an underdog even as his star rose on Netflix’s “Drive to Survive.” But this victory changed everything.
’s 2024 season rounded its halfway mark over the July 4 holiday weekend with the British Grand Prix. It’s the sport’s home race, held at Silverstone Circuit, the track that held the first-ever Grand Prix in F1’s highly competitive World Championship era in 1950.was Englishman Sir Lewis Hamilton, who sits apart from the rest of the sport thanks to his history-making success as the winner of the most F1 races , the most Driver’s World Championships , and most wins at Silverstone .
OK, so a well-known world-class driver won a race he’d won eight previous times. Good for him, but so what? Hamilton’s outstanding career record obscures a crucial detail: Prior to July 6, 2024, his last Grand Prix win was in December 2021. That’s 945 days if you’re counting, and as Hamilton revealed in hisabout it, the man definitely has been counting. Since 2021, Lewis Hamilton has kind of been an underdog.
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