Cheers for now! Max Verstappen, Lando Norris, and Lewis Hamilton were thirsty for the Silverstone podium. The national anthems had hardly ended when they drank and spilled the champagne copiously. World Automobile Federation boss Mohammed Ben Sulayem struggled to remind the revelers that protocol requires trophies to be lifted before things can get lively. Now it was too late. Doesn’t matter.
McLaren driver Lando Norris in particular wanted to douse the British Grand Prix: he made it onto the podium for the first time in his home race. With his friend Verstappen, and Hamilton, the childhood idol. “When Lewis won here in 2008,” said Norris, “I was eight years old. I saw him on TV, the fans cheered him on. Today they cheered me too. That makes me proud.”