{"id":17552,"date":"2021-07-18T22:48:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T17:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=127726"},"modified":"2021-07-18T22:48:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T17:18:41","slug":"mercedes-driver-lewis-hamilton-wins-the-british-grand-prix-for-the-eighth-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/formula-1\/mercedes-driver-lewis-hamilton-wins-the-british-grand-prix-for-the-eighth-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton wins the British Grand Prix for the eighth time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton achieved his 8th British Grand Prix following a contentious crash with F1 rival Max Verstappen who crashed out due to Hamilton\u2019s dive down his inside on the entrance to Copse at 180mph. He was sent out of strength and exploded into the wall in the high-speed accident at Silverstone.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Incredible scenes at Silverstone! <\/p>\n<p>Lewis Hamilton wins his 8th British Grand Prix \ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BritishGP?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BritishGP<\/a> \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vv6jF6q2Hh\">pic.twitter.com\/vv6jF6q2Hh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1416798090116349959?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>British Formula One driver Hamilton was given a penalty of 10-second time for the incident he inflicted because kg which the Belgian-Dutch driver Verstappen was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Verstappen and Hamilton collide! <\/p>\n<p>The title rivals come together at Copse, pitching Verstappen into a high-speed crash. <\/p>\n<p>The Dutchman was able to walk away but he has been taken to hospital for precautionary checks<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BritishGP?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BritishGP<\/a> \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ol1s9dRJoa\">pic.twitter.com\/ol1s9dRJoa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1416796423195070472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs Max okay?\u2019 asked Hamilton over the radio to which the Mercedes driver\u2019s race engineer Peter Bonnington responded: \u201d He is out of the car\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was ahead going in there. Pulling alongside, it was my line,\u201d added the public favourite, Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull dissented in the decisive terms and called the director of the race Michael Masi to let him know their opinion about the occurrence and asking him to \u201cdeal with it appropriately\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton has now won eight British Grand Prix and this one was the hugest public for a sporting tournament in the UK since the start of the global pandemic COVID-19 virus. <span style=\"text-transform: initial\">\u201cWe have got the best crowd here. It\u2019s a dream to win in front of them all,\u201d said Lewis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton wins his 8th British Grand Prix while the F1 opponent Max Verstappen collide on the opening lap who was rushed to the hospital. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":38296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2115,1372,402,931,1616,404,2088],"class_list":["post-17552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula-1","tag-british-grand-prix","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-mercedes","tag-red-bull"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17552","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\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}