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Silverstone stats - Hamilton adds to home tally

For the 22nd time in 65 races, Great Britain’s round of the world championship was won by a British driver -Lewis Hamilton. It was Hamilton’s 27th career win (equaling Jackie Stewart’s total), his fifth of the season (the same number he won in his championship-winning season of 2008) and his second on home soil. Incidentally, only twice has the British Grand Prix been run on July 6: this year and in 2008, and rather strangely Hamilton won that race too!Hamilton is the first British driver to win at home in a Mercedes since Stirling Moss triumphed at Aintree in 1955 and he’s also the first driver since fellow Brit Peter Collins in 1958 to win the British Grand Prix...
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