Three things we learned from the British Grand Prix
Not for the first time a Formula One race director decided, controversially it seemed, to end a Grand Prix with a slow procession rather than a thrilling high-speed contest. The decision to keep the safety car out at Silverstone on Sunday left many in a sellout 175 000 crowd feeling short-changed as they anticipated a […] The post Three things we learned from the British Grand Prix appeared first on The Namibian .
Not for the first time a Formula One race director decided, controversially it seemed, to end a Grand Prix with a slow procession rather than a thrilling high-speed contest.
The decision to keep the safety car out at Silverstone on Sunday left many in a sellout 175 000 crowd feeling short-changed as they anticipated a last-gasp race to the flag with home hero Lewis Hamilton fighting for second behind Ferrari team-mate and eventual victor Charles Leclerc or, possibly, a record 10th home race win.
It was a complex, provocative and unsatisfactory ending.
AFP Sport looks at three things we learned from an action-packed British Grand Prix:
‘Regulations have been followed’
The rule book prevailed, and it diminished a potentially spectacular finish.
