On a warm weekend in the middle of July, the Top Gear crew arrived at Silverstone for some filming during the British Grand Prix. Until then the title fight between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton had been intense but fair. The wheel-to-wheel battles between the two drivers delighted race fans but little was seeping through to those from outside the sport. Little did we know what was in store, from a ding-dong battle that took the title rivals into the final weekend level on points, to perhaps the most tense, dramatic and controversial finale imaginable. SponsoredWith 57 of 58 laps complete in Abu Dhabi, a safety car released Hamilton, the race leader, and Verstappen, looming on his shoulder, for a one-lap shoot-out to decide the

Source: The Times December 13, 2021 01:50 UTC