Mercedes' Kimi Antonelli caught and passed Lewis Hamilton to triumph an action-packed sprint contention astatine the British Grand Prix.
While McLaren's Lando Norris, Mercedes' George Russell and Red Bull's Max Verstappen staged a frantic place-swapping scrap successful the opening laps astatine Silverstone, Antonelli bided his clip earlier homing successful connected Hamilton astatine the front.
The 19-year-old Italian fto the contention settee down earlier remorselessly homing successful connected the Ferrari and blasting past Hamilton connected the Hangar Straight connected thigh 8 aft strategically redeeming his artillery charge.
Hamilton hung connected bravely but could bash thing to halt Antonelli extending his title pb inactive further to 43 points implicit Russell.
Behind them, Norris drove an fantabulous contention to blast up from sixth connected the grid to 4th connected the archetypal thigh earlier passing Russell connected the 2nd lap.
There were a fewer hectic laps arsenic Norris, Russell and Verstappen swapped places earlier Norris managed to consolidate 3rd spot and determination wide of the the conflict down him.
Russell managed to walk Verstappen connected thigh 9 earlier the four-time champion fell backmost into the clutches of Ferrari's Charles Leclerc, who moved past the Red Bull a thigh later.
Verstappen dropped backmost but managed to clasp disconnected McLaren's Oscar Piastri to instrumentality sixth.
Racing Bull's Liam Lawson held disconnected an onslaught from Red Bull's Isack Hadjar successful the closing laps arsenic they took the last points positions.
Qualifying for Sunday's main expansive prix is astatine 16:00 BST connected Saturday.
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