Almost lost in the excitement of the moment, F1 witnessed one of the great radio exchanges as Lewis Hamilton's left-front tyre gave up at the start of the final lap of the British Grand Prix. 'Can we win this,' asked Max Verstappen, who had pitted moments after Valtteri Bottas' failure. 'If you get on with it,' came the magnificent response. Though he brought a 30-plus gap down to 5.856s, speaking after the race the Dutchman insisted that he had no regrets even though had he not pitted - and he was not suffering anything like the tyre issues his rivals were experiencing - and was only targeting the point for fastest race lap, he would almost certainly have won given what the tyre Gods had...
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