Lewis gives British fans a reason to smile; wins British Grand Prix

After starting from a disappointing sixth place in grid, Lewis Hamilton in the absence of Nico Rosberg, won the British Grand Prix, giving his British fans a reason to cheer, after a disastrous show of England in the FIFA Football WorldCup. His title rival and teammate Rosberg retired after 47th lap with a gearbox problem. Out of nine races so far, it was the fifth win for the British driver but is still four points behind his partner Rosberg who is currently leading the points table.

In the home circuit of Silverstone, Hamilton won the race with huge margin of 30 seconds to Williams drivers Valtteri Bottas who came second ahead of Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo. While Jenson Button of McLaren and Sebastian Vettel of team Red Bull managed to score fourth and fifth position. Ferrari's Fernando Alonso came sixth while his teammate Kimi Raikkonen met with an unfortunate crash. On the exit of Turn 4, the Ferrai driver lost his control and was immediately taken to the on-track medical centre. His red hot F1 car further slid towards the William's Felipe Massa.

Hamilton took 2hr 26 min 52.094 seconds to complete his 52 laps of 190 miles (305.7 kms) with an average speed of 125.09mph (201 kmph). After getting the top podium position, he told his crew, “I couldn’t be happier guys” and “Sorry about yesterday!” He further added, 'Yesterday was a really difficult day, you never think situations like that will come out. I went away feeling terrible for the fans thinking I had let them down. Coming back to day and turning that serious emptiness into a positivity was my priority. The support has been incredible. I had the pace today. I was catching Nico in the first stint. I never want a team-mate to fall away and was looking forward to a wheel-to-wheel battle, but I am sure we will get plenty of those in the future.''

For the Force India, Nico Hulkenberg scored 4 points as he finished eight while his teammate Sergio Perez failed to score and ended up on eleventh position. With the British Grand Prix over, Rosberg’s lead in the world championship has been reduced to just four points.  Rosberg with his 165 points is leading the way but now he's getting some strong competition from Hamilton’s 161 points; while there is no hope for Ricciardo with 98 and Alonso on 87 points to catch them. In the constructors' championship, Mercedes now have 326 points to Red Bull’s 168 and Ferrari’s 106.

From the royal state of Northamptonshire in England, the F1 circuit now moves to auto manufacturing city of the world- Germany. The practice sessions are scheduled on 18th and 19th July while the main race is on Sunday 20th July, 2014.