The doom and gloom surrounding the state of modern Formula 1 seemed so very far away through the first half of Sunday’s British Grand Prix, as a number of spectacular on-track battles showed the sport as its very best. As Mercedes teammates Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas scrapped over the lead with a hard but clean fight, Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris were going wheel-to-wheel further back – and, best of all, Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc had an almighty fight for third place. Side-by-sides, switchbacks, even occasional contact – it was a battle two weeks in the making following their three-lap scrap for the lead in Austria. That fight was ultimately won by Verstappen...
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