The Mercedes driver's tally of victories includes successive wins in 2014 and last year, and a hat-trick on Sunday will see him join Jim Clark as the only driver to have triumphed at the event three or more times in a row. The Mercedes driver's tally of victories includes successive wins in 2014 and last year, and a hat-trick on Sunday will see him join Jim Clark as the only driver to have triumphed at the event three or more times in a row. The legendary Scotsman, who raced in the sixties and jointly holds the record for most British Grand Prix wins with five, took four of his victories successively. A
win on Sunday wil l also place Hamilton equal second with the darling of the British fans, Nigel Mansell, with four wins overall. "I remember being here when I wasn't even in Formula One and one day dreaming of driving Formula One," Hamilton told reporters at the Silverstone circuit on Thursday. "So it's just crazy to think I've had those wins here and I hope that I can continue to, along, with the drivers here, raise the flag proudly," said Hamilton, seated between Jenson Button and Jolyon Palmer, the two other British drivers on the grid. Hamilton took his third win of the season last time out in Austria after a controversial last-lap collision with teammate and title-rival Nico Rosberg. The crash, which stewards deemed was championship leader Rosberg's fault, cost Mercedes an assured one-two, with the German crawling home fourth in a mangled car. But it allowed Hamilton to close to 11 points of the championship lead in the standings. The collision was the duo's third in five races, prompting Mercedes to consider imposing team orders stopping their drivers racing wheel-to-wheel. But at a crunch meeting between the team's bosses and drivers at their Brackley headquarters on Thursday, they decided to let Hamilton and Rosberg, now on their final warning, battle freely, although with stricter deterrents in place and the prospect of team-orders still on the table as a last-resort option.
win on Sunday wil l also place Hamilton equal second with the darling of the British fans, Nigel Mansell, with four wins overall. "I remember being here when I wasn't even in Formula One and one day dreaming of driving Formula One," Hamilton told reporters at the Silverstone circuit on Thursday. "So it's just crazy to think I've had those wins here and I hope that I can continue to, along, with the drivers here, raise the flag proudly," said Hamilton, seated between Jenson Button and Jolyon Palmer, the two other British drivers on the grid. Hamilton took his third win of the season last time out in Austria after a controversial last-lap collision with teammate and title-rival Nico Rosberg. The crash, which stewards deemed was championship leader Rosberg's fault, cost Mercedes an assured one-two, with the German crawling home fourth in a mangled car. But it allowed Hamilton to close to 11 points of the championship lead in the standings. The collision was the duo's third in five races, prompting Mercedes to consider imposing team orders stopping their drivers racing wheel-to-wheel. But at a crunch meeting between the team's bosses and drivers at their Brackley headquarters on Thursday, they decided to let Hamilton and Rosberg, now on their final warning, battle freely, although with stricter deterrents in place and the prospect of team-orders still on the table as a last-resort option.
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