Peter Windsor analyses Carlos Sainz’s Silverstone pole and previews closely-contested British GP. Peter Windsor analyses Carlos Sainz's Silverstone pole.

It took him 150 races but Scuderia Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz exhibited all his wet-weather flair to take the pole for Sunday’s British GP at the Silverstone circuit. The Spaniard seized the initiative from Red Bull’s Max Verstappen on the last lap of Q3 despite (or perhaps because of) a low battery charge through the last few corners.

Charles Leclerc qualified third in the other Ferrari after inducing a brief yellow on his final fast run (and thus slowing, slightly, Max Verstappen’s last lap). Red Bull’s Sergio Perez snatched fourth place from Lewis Hamilton in the dying seconds – but Mercedes were strong at Silverstone in both the wet and the dry. In this video, Formula One journalist and former F1 team and sponsorship manager Peter Windsor analyses the day’s events and looks forward to what should be a closely-contested race.

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