{"id":245308,"date":"2025-07-07T13:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T13:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/245308\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T13:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T13:04:09","slug":"home-hero-lando-norris-takes-the-glory-while-nico-hulkenberg-makes-history-its-our-british-gp-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/245308\/","title":{"rendered":"Home hero Lando Norris takes the glory while Nico Hulkenberg makes history \u2013 it\u2019s our British GP review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Mercedes Reserve driver Fred Vesti and Fox Sports Mexico journalist Diego Mejia join F1 Nation host Tom Clarkson in the Silverstone paddock to reflect on an action-packed British Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Lando Norris won his home race for the very first time to reduce the gap to his team mate and World Championship leader Oscar Piastri to eight points. What does that victory mean for Norris and how much momentum does winning back-to-back races give him?<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">And, after a 10-second penalty for a Safety Car infringement cost Piastri a chance of winning, how will the Australian approach the next race?<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">But there was also plenty of joy, praise and credit for Sauber&#8217;s Nico Hulkenberg, who made history by <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/latest\/article\/he-absolutely-deserves-this-moment-the-f1-paddock-reacts-to-hulkenbergs.3JdFaCSPc4kHaXp7kwM61Z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">securing the first podium of his F1 career<\/a> in his 15th season and on his 239th race start.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">How did he climb from last on the grid to take P3 and hold off a charging Lewis Hamilton? Sauber Team Principal Jonathan Wheatley and CEO Mattia Binotto reflect on a \u2018masterclass\u2019 drive and what this result means for Hulkenberg and the team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Also on the agenda in F1 Nation&#8217;s review of the weekend: why wasn\u2019t Hamilton able to continue his incredible run of being on the podium at every British Grand Prix since 2014? And how did Max Verstappen go from a sensational pole position on Saturday to having an \u2018undriveable car\u2019 in the wet conditions on Sunday?<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">To hear the latest on all the biggest talking points from the race weekend, hit go on the audio player above or <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" href=\"https:\/\/podfollow.com\/f1-nation\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click here<\/a> to listen to the latest episode on your preferred podcasting platform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Fancy getting your question answered by the F1 Nation team on a future episode? Simply record it as a voice note and email it to <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/latest\/article\/mailto:F1Nation@F1.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">F1Nation@F1.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mercedes Reserve driver Fred Vesti and Fox Sports Mexico journalist Diego Mejia join F1 Nation host Tom Clarkson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-245308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114812096951393131","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}