Motor racing-Verstappen wins Silverstone Sprint for British GP pole

SILVERSTONE, England -Max Verstappen took pole position for the British Grand Prix and made Formula One history by winning the sport's first Saturday sprint race to stretch his lead over Lewis Hamilton to 33 points.

"We had a good start and a good fight with Lewis on the first lap and then we tried to do our own pace. You could see we were pushing each other hard, because at the end of the race the tyres were blistering a lot," said Verstappen. The Red Bull, despite flames flickering from the front left brakes, proved too quick for the Mercedes to catch with a 1.430 second gap to Hamilton at the finish.

The big casualty of the new format was Verstappen's team mate Sergio Perez, who spun off across the gravel on lap six while in seventh place."We thought there wasn't much to gain so we preferred to retire the car," said the Mexican, whose team risk seeing their 44-point lead over Mercedes shrink in the constructors' standings.

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