England, ‘Lewis Hamilton’ won the F1 championship for the first time in 945 days and won the British Grand Prix for the 9th time, the most of all time, overtaking Michael Schumacher.
Formula One 2024 season, round 12, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone Circuit, England, the final round of 52 rounds, with 480,000 motorsport fans coming to watch the race. British driver Lewis Hamilton from Mercedes AMG crossed the finish line first with a time of 1 hour 22 minutes 27.059 seconds, returning to win the first championship in 945 days after an absence of almost 2 and a half years and winning the British Grand Prix for the 9th time, the most of all time, surpassing Michael Schumacher, the legendary 7-time world champion who previously did it 8 times. In second place, 3-time world champion Max Verstappen from the Netherlands of the Red Bull Racing team, 1.465 seconds behind, and in third place, local driver Lando Norris from the McLaren team, 7.547 seconds behind, while Alexander Albon Ansusingh, a Thai racer. F
inished in 9th place, 68.397 seconds behind the champion, collecting another 2 points for the next Formula One race, which will be the Hungarian Grand Prix, on 17-19 July 2024 at the Hungarian O-ring, Budapest, Hungary.
In the MotoGP World Championship, the 9th round at the Chessenring in Germany, Ducati’s Italian rider Francesco Bagnaia won the 9th round after Spanish rider Jorge Martin, who was leading at the end, crashed at the first corner of the final round, sending Bagnaia, who had won the 6th round earlier, to win this round. Brothers Marc Marquez and Alex Marquez finished 2nd and 3rd respectively, giving Bagnaia 222 points, overtaking Jorge Martin, who had 212 points, to become the overall leader.
Source: Thai News Agency