Here’s Hamilton winning the British GP on THREE WHEELS

Here’s Lewis Hamilton, six-time Formula One world champion, just trucking along in his Mercedes-AMG on the last lap in the lead of the British Grand Prix. Nothing new to see, really.

Except he’s on THREE WHEELS.

Starting on pole, Hamilton led from lights to flag, later admitting that while he kept ahead of teammate and chief rival Valtteri Bottas, the Finn kept him on his toes throughout. Barring a couple of safety car incidents, and some decent midfield scraps, it was fairly unexceptional.

But then the last few laps happened. And all hell broke loose. Bottas’s left front gave up the ghost just after he’d passed the pitlane, so he had to limp around for what must have felt like forever. This was two laps from the end, and he quickly dropped out of the top ten.

The call came to Lewis straight away to be wary of his tyres. Then, on the final lap - around halfway through - Hamilton’s front left also said 'sayonara'. With Verstappen charging up behind him on a fresh set of tyres, it was heart-in-mouth stuff as to whether Hamilton could keep his victory.

He did – just – limping home across the finish line on three wheels, to take victory. Here he is with many TROPHIES.

“I have never experienced anything like that before,” he said. “That last lap was one of the most challenging laps I have ever had. Up until that point, everything was going relatively smoothly, the tyres felt great and I was doing some management.

“When I heard Valtteri’s tyre had gone, I looked at mine and everything seemed fine, but I started to back off. Then, it just suddenly deflated down the straight. It was a heart-in-your-mouth feeling and then I was just trying to keep the speed up without damaging the car.

“Bono [Lewis's race engineer] was giving me the gaps; I think it was 30 seconds at one stage, but it was coming down quite quickly and I was thinking ‘How far is it to the end of the lap?’. But we managed to get the car across the line. That last lap is definitely one to remember, I feel so grateful that I got it back and could secure the win. It was difficult standing up there on the podium without the crowd, but hopefully I did everyone proud who was supporting us from home.”

Same, Lewis. Same.

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