Lewis Hamilton becomes the most successful driver at the British Grand Prix EVER as he claims sixth superb victory at Silverstone

Lewis Hamilton won the British Grand Prix for a record sixth time.

The world champion took advantage of a safety car 20 laps into the race to emerge ahead of his Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas and extend his world championship lead to 39 points.

The victory – Hamilton’s seventh in 10 races – was celebrated wildly by a partisan crowd of 141,000, a Silverstone high. 

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Lewis Hamilton celebrated in front of over 140,000 fans at Silverstone after winning his sixth British Grand Prix on Sunday

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Hamilton became the most successful driver at the British Grand Prix ever, going ahead of Jim Clark and Alain Prost 

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Lewis Hamilton does a bit of crowd surfing at Silverstone after a dominant drive at the British Grand Prix on Sunday afternoon

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Sebastian Vettel was penalised after hitting the back of Max Verstappen and sending both cars into the gravel trap