From spectacularly mastering the rain to crossing the line on three wheels – Ranking Lewis Hamilton’s nine Silverstone race wins

2. 2024 – An emotional return to winning ways

With all of the successes on this list – which in fact highlight only a fraction of Hamilton’s staggering 104 wins in Formula 1 – it is perhaps still a surprising statistic that the 39-year-old went without any victories in 2022 and 2023. Prior to that, he had last stepped on the top step of the podium in the 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, before two challenging seasons for Mercedes amid the introduction of new ground effect regulations.

Indeed, the Silver Arrows had only claimed one race win as a team in that time thanks to George Russell’s 2022 success in Brazil. But signs of promise emerged as the 2024 campaign progressed, with Russell being in a prime position to take a surprise victory in Austria off the back of a late-race collision between leaders Verstappen and Norris. Hamilton, meanwhile, had to watch on after finishing in P4.

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Fast forward one week to Silverstone and Mercedes were continuing to look strong. While Russell claimed pole position ahead of Hamilton, the latter showed his experience in a thrilling wet-dry race. After a well-timed switch to the intermediate tyres, Hamilton remained on the tail of race leader Norris, before again getting his visit to the pits spot-on when the time came for slick tyres, having pitted one lap ahead of Norris for the soft compound.

With Norris having a slightly slow stop, the McLaren driver emerged back on track behind Hamilton, who did a superb job of managing the soft tyres to the end of the race. While Verstappen looked to be on the chase after overtaking Norris for P2, Hamilton took the victory by nearly one and a half seconds, marking his first win in 945 days. The seven-time world champion could not hide his emotions over the radio as he soaked up the crowd’s applause on a day marking his last British Grand Prix as a Mercedes driver ahead of his impending switch to Ferrari.