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BRITISH GP SPECIAL A great F1 race and a popular winner amid dramatic scenes IMAGES MAUGER/MOTORSPORT The new ground-effects rules do work, then! Last weekend’s British Grand Prix, the best round of the 2022 season so far, demonstrated two key strengths of modern Formula 1 machinery. The first was their literal strength as the halo once again did its job in Zhou Guanyu’s nasty start crash (page 4), though the apparent roll hoop failure certainly requires investigation. The second was that the cars could follow more closely than we have seen at the high-speed Silverstone for many years, which helped to create some great racing. We also got a feel-good result as Carlos Sainz finally scored his first world championship GP victory, at his 150th attempt. But, as Alex Kalinauckas shows in our race report (p16), Ferrari’s ba ing strategy yet again thwarted Charles Leclerc, on a day when title rival Max Verstappen had his own problems to worry about. Away from the competition, the protestors who tried to get onto the track during the race picked a really lousy way to try to make a valid point. Presumably none of them have seen the horrific footage from the 1977 South African GP… The booing that ‘greeted’ Verstappen after qualifying was also unedifying. The Dutchman’s on-track antics haven’t always been the best (though have been much cleaner so far in 2022), but the Red Bull star can’t be blamed for the farce that was the Abu Dhabi season finale last year. As Lewis Hamilton said: “We’re better than that.” Kevin Turner Chief Editor kevin.turner@autosport.com NEXT WEEK 14 JULY Austrian GP report Can anyone stop Max Verstappen as F1 heads to the Red Bull Ring? COVER IMAGES @Scuderia Ferrari Press Office; Sutton/Motorsport Images PIT & PADDOCK 4 Zhou survives Silverstone smash 6 Dixon linked with McLaren move 8 WTCR teams in sandbagging row 11 Obituary: Alain de Cadenet 13 Austrian Grand Prix preview 14 Opinion: Alex Kalinauckas 15 Feedback: your letters RACE CENTRE 16 British GP report and analysis 32 Mortara too good in Marrakech E-Prix 36 IndyCar: McLaughlin wins, McLaren fails 40 World of Sport: FIA Formula 2; F3; W Series; Porsche Supercup; NASCAR Cup; WTCR; DTM; ELMS; IMSA; GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup INSIGHT 52 The WRC’s groundbreaking Kenyans CLUB AUTOSPORT 63 Caterham series to leave BRSCC 64 Ultimate BMW race planned 66 Robinson’s surprise Santa Pod win 69 Opinion: Stephen Lickorish 70 National reports: Le Mans Classic; Brands Hatch; Donington Park; Lydden Hill; Harewood FINISHING STRAIGHT 78 What’s on this week 80 From the archive: 1966 Le Mans 82 My favourite car: David Coulthard SUBSCRIPTION OFFER 12 Special deals for Autosport VISIT AUTOSPORT.COM For other ways to read Britain’s best motorsport weekly Have your say, get in touch Autosport editorial Autosport Media UK Ltd 1 Eton Street Richmond TW9 1AG @ E-mail autosport@ autosport.com Visit our website autosport.com Twitter twitter.com/ autosport Facebook facebook.com/ autosport Instagram instagram.com/ autosport YouTube youtube.com/ AUTOSPORTdotcom 7 JULY 2022 AUTOSPORT.COM 3

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BRITISH GP

SPECIAL

A great F1 race and a popular winner amid dramatic scenes

IMAGES

MAUGER/MOTORSPORT

The new ground-effects rules do work, then! Last weekend’s British Grand Prix, the best round of the 2022 season so far, demonstrated two key strengths of modern Formula 1 machinery.

The first was their literal strength as the halo once again did its job in Zhou Guanyu’s nasty start crash (page 4), though the apparent roll hoop failure certainly requires investigation. The second was that the cars could follow more closely than we have seen at the high-speed Silverstone for many years, which helped to create some great racing. We also got a feel-good result as Carlos Sainz finally scored his first world championship GP victory, at his 150th attempt. But, as Alex Kalinauckas shows in our race report (p16), Ferrari’s ba ing strategy yet again thwarted Charles Leclerc, on a day when title rival Max Verstappen had his own problems to worry about.

Away from the competition, the protestors who tried to get onto the track during the race picked a really lousy way to try to make a valid point. Presumably none of them have seen the horrific footage from the 1977 South African GP…

The booing that ‘greeted’ Verstappen after qualifying was also unedifying. The Dutchman’s on-track antics haven’t always been the best (though have been much cleaner so far in 2022), but the Red Bull star can’t be blamed for the farce that was the Abu Dhabi season finale last year. As Lewis Hamilton said: “We’re better than that.”

Kevin Turner Chief Editor kevin.turner@autosport.com

NEXT WEEK

14 JULY Austrian GP report Can anyone stop Max Verstappen as F1 heads to the Red Bull Ring?

COVER IMAGES @Scuderia Ferrari Press Office; Sutton/Motorsport Images

PIT & PADDOCK 4 Zhou survives Silverstone smash 6 Dixon linked with McLaren move 8 WTCR teams in sandbagging row 11 Obituary: Alain de Cadenet 13 Austrian Grand Prix preview 14 Opinion: Alex Kalinauckas 15 Feedback: your letters

RACE CENTRE 16 British GP report and analysis 32 Mortara too good in Marrakech E-Prix 36 IndyCar: McLaughlin wins, McLaren fails 40 World of Sport: FIA Formula 2; F3; W Series; Porsche Supercup; NASCAR Cup; WTCR; DTM; ELMS; IMSA; GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup

INSIGHT 52 The WRC’s groundbreaking Kenyans

CLUB AUTOSPORT 63 Caterham series to leave BRSCC 64 Ultimate BMW race planned 66 Robinson’s surprise Santa Pod win 69 Opinion: Stephen Lickorish 70 National reports: Le Mans Classic;

Brands Hatch; Donington Park; Lydden Hill; Harewood

FINISHING STRAIGHT 78 What’s on this week 80 From the archive: 1966 Le Mans 82 My favourite car: David Coulthard

SUBSCRIPTION OFFER 12 Special deals for Autosport

VISIT AUTOSPORT.COM For other ways to read Britain’s best motorsport weekly

Have your say, get in touch

Autosport editorial Autosport Media UK Ltd

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