{"id":17511,"date":"2020-08-10T12:31:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T07:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=30923"},"modified":"2020-08-10T13:51:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T08:21:04","slug":"formula-one-verstappen-wins-70th-anniversary-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/formula-1\/formula-one-verstappen-wins-70th-anniversary-grand-prix\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula One: Verstappen wins 70th Anniversary Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Redbull\u2019s Max Verstappen won the F1 70th Anniversary Grand Prix at Silverstone, England on Sunday defeating Mercedes\u2019s Lewis Hamilton, bringing the Mercedes domination to an end. The 22-year-old Dutch racer\u2019s astute strategy and tyre management got his 9th career win and Redbull\u2019s first win in the circuit since 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton, who finished second, equalled Micheal Schumacher\u2019s 155 podium finish record while his teammate Bottas came in third. Redbull\u2019s decision to start Verstappen with harder compound tyres worked well against Mercedes who faced tyre blistering issues at 40 degree Celcius track temperature. Mercedes had won the previous 4 races and taken every pole.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">YESS BOYSS!! I\u2019m incredibly happy with this win, I didn\u2019t see this one coming! \ud83d\udcaa Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/redbullracing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@redbullracing<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HondaRacingF1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HondaRacingF1<\/a> for their continued hard work \ud83d\udc4f Now let\u2019s celebrate and hydrate\ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udf7e\ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KeepPushing?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KeepPushing<\/a> # F170 \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hpymhkoq79\">pic.twitter.com\/hpymhkoq79<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Max Verstappen (@Max33Verstappen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Max33Verstappen\/status\/1292490695995990019?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t see it coming, but after the first stint we seemed really good on tyres and we didn\u2019t have many tyres issues at all. It is a great result to win here and I am incredibly happy. We have not had an opportunity to push them so far this season. We need to use soft tyres \u2013 that seems to suit our car,\u201d said Verstappen.<\/p>\n<div>Verstappen\u2019s teammate Alexander Albon was 5th behind Ferrari\u2019s Charles Leclerc after starting at 9th. Sebastian Vettel finished 12th, outside the points tally. Racing point\u2019s Nico Hulkenberg finished 7th behind his teammate Lance Stroll. Hamilton leads this season with 107 points with Verstappen at 77.<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Redbull\u2019s Max Verstappen won the F1 70th Anniversary Grand Prix at Silverstone, England defeating Mercedes\u2019s Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":38255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[402,404,389,403],"class_list":["post-17511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula-1","tag-formula-1","tag-mercedes","tag-sports","tag-verstappen"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}