For many, this year’s
Formula 1 World Championship has been leading up to this point, or at least it has been since
Lewis Hamilton first triumphed at the Canadian Grand Prix last month, for this weekend heralds the most eagerly anticipated British Grand Prix for years.
With tales of woe and worry surrounding the future of Britain’s ‘home of motorsport’ all too often causing the black ink to flow in the newspapers, even Silverstone’s foremost critic
Bernie Ecclestone will have to be impressed by the expected sell-out crowd due to swell the grandstands and cheer that man - this is the ‘Lewis Hamilton effect’ in full force.
Indeed, there is nothing like a new sports hero to get the tills ringing, with Hamilton’s triumph in Montreal creating a flurry of interest from the most dedicated to many fleeting of fans. It all serves to make
Silverstone very much the centre of interest for the British media that have been spouting endless superlatives in the past month at arguably the nation’s most precocious new talent at the moment.
One thing is for sure though, whatever the result, Hamilton will leave Silverstone with at least a three point lead in the standings after his eighth straight podium in France.
Even so, fans will only want to see one result – and if he wins this race on the way to the claiming the championship, it is likely to be an ‘I was there’ moment for the thousands set to make the trip to Northamptonshire.
The nation waits with bated breath….
FIA F1 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP NEWS
Has the pendulum in this year’s championship switched yet again? It certainly appeared so in France after
Ferrari used the break between races to turn around a significant deficit in performance at Indianapolis to a dominant display in Magny-Cours.
