FACTS AND STATS: Lucky 13 for Norris at Silverstone, as Hamilton’s 12-year podium run ends

It was never a dull moment at Silverstone as the fickle British weather kept the fans on the edge of their seats throughout the 52 laps. Those fans were rewarded with a home win, as McLaren’s Lando Norris took top honours, though another of his compatriots was notable by his podium absence. Here’s our round-up of the need-to-know numbers…

• Norris is the 13th British driver to win the British Grand Prix.

• It’s the 25th time that a British driver has won at Silverstone in 75 years of the World Championship.

• It was the first McLaren win at Silverstone since Lewis Hamilton in 2008.

• Norris has reduced the championship gap to eight points behind Oscar Piastri.

• With Piastri finishing in P2, McLaren have scored consecutive one-twos in Austria and Great Britain.

• It was McLaren’s fifth 1-2 finish of 2025, their most in any season in the 21st century.

• In P3 for Kick Sauber, Nico Hulkenberg has had the longest career in F1 history before scoring a first podium finish (238 Grands Prix over 15 years).

• It was the first Sauber podium finish since Japan 2012 with Kamui Kobayashi.

• Hulkenberg is the first German to finish on the podium since Sebastian Vettel at the 2021 Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

• Hulkenberg is the oldest first-time podium finisher (37 years old) since George Follmer (39 years old) at the 1973 Spanish Grand Prix.

• Kick Sauber have jumped up to seventh place in the Constructors’ Championship after that result.

• Hulkenberg started 19th, the lowest-ever starting position for a podium finisher in Sauber’s 32-year history.

• Hulkenberg had spent 177 laps in a podium position across his career before this race.

• Hulkenberg is the 218th driver to finish on the podium in F1 championship history.

• With P4 for Ferrari, Lewis Hamilton tied his best Grand Prix result of the season for the second race running.

• It ended Hamilton’s run of 12 consecutive podium finishes at Silverstone (the longest streak by any driver at any circuit).

• After finishing fifth for Red Bull, Max Verstappen is now 69 points behind the championship lead.

• In P6, Pierre Gasly scored Alpine’s best result of the season.

• Lance Stroll’s P7 finish for Aston Martin was his first top-eight finish since the season’s opening race in Australia.

• Stroll ran his first laps in a podium position since 2023.

• Williams’ Alex Albon scored points at Silverstone for the third consecutive season with his P8 result.

• Fernando Alonso came home ninth for Aston Martin to secure his fourth consecutive points finish this season.

• It was Alonso’s sixth consecutive points finish at Silverstone.

• With George Russell in P10 and Kimi Antonelli retiring, Mercedes missed the podium at Silverstone for the first time since 2012.

• There were eight constructors in the points positions, tying the highest number this season.

• Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc finished outside the points for the first time this season, in P14 (he was disqualified from fifth place in China).

• Red Bull’s Yuki Tsunoda, in P15, was the last classified finisher for the second consecutive race.

• Antonelli’s DNF was his fourth retirement in the last six races.

• The DNF for Racing Bulls’ Isack Hadjar was the French rookie’s first official retirement from a Grand Prix (he failed to take the start in Australia).

• Kick Sauber’s Gabriel Bortoleto also retired, meaning the two drivers with career-best finishes last time out in Austria (Bortoleto and Liam Lawson) were both out before the end of Lap 6 at Silverstone.

• Lawson’s DNF was the first time he's ever retired on the first lap of a Grand Prix (he retired on Lap 1 of the Sprint in Qatar 2023).

• Racing Bulls saw both cars out by Lap 19, their first double DNF since China 2024.