Few Grands Prix on the Formula 1 calendar bear more significance than the British Grand Prix.
Some 72 years ago the first World Championship Formula 1 event took place at Silverstone and was won by Giuseppe “Nino” Farina, who would go on to become the first Formula 1 World Champion later that year.
Since then Silverstone has been the primary home of the British GP, with Aintree and Brands Hatch hosting the event on an alternating basis until 1986.
Despite all its history, last year’s race will be the most fresh in the minds of many when the lights go out on Sunday (July 3).
A Quick Refresh
The 2021 title fight between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton was among the most ferocious in recent history, and the British GP embodied that perfectly.
The race began with a hotly contested first lap between Verstappen and Hamilton, before the two collided while running side by side into Copse corner — a corner normally taken around 170 mph.
Verstappen was sent spinning through — if not flying over — the gravel trap and slammed into the barriers seconds later; a 51G impact.
While Verstappen was released from the hospital later that day without issue, this was the point of the season where the gloves properly came off. The two championship protagonists collided once more at Monza, and narrowly avoided one another a handful of times for good measure.
Carlos Sainz is Coming
Frontstretch has spoken on Carlos Sainz’s 2022 season a fair amount; mainly because Sainz continues to hand us talking points.
The Spaniard’s Ferrari tenure has been respectable to this point, but Ferrari isn’t a team with a taste for the mere respectable.
With 239 victories, 15 drivers’ titles and 16 constructors’ titles, the most successful team in Formula 1 history demands and commands excellence. Drivers are expected to perform despite the shortcomings of their equipment and/or staff.
To this point, Sainz has performed, but he has yet to put on a proper performance.
Sainz has collected nine podiums in a season and a half, and came within reach of the victory last time out in Canada. And compared to his teammate Charles Leclerc, Sainz’s season has taken a relative upturn since Miami — even if through no fault of Leclerc’s own.
With high expectations being a given at Ferrari, Sainz’s moment atop the podium is morphing into a question of when rather than if.
Nicholas Latifi Needs to Step Up
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