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The Straits Times
|July 05, 2025
Struggling Hamilton always a contender at home race where fans make difference
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LLewis Hamilton has won a record nine times at Silverstone but arrives this year on a 13-race run without a podium, equalling the longest drought of the seven-time world champion's Formula One career.
The Briton would dearly love to win again this weekend and end the unhappy sequence in his first race in Britain as a Ferrari driver.
"It would be a great place to be able to change that, so that's what we are working towards," the 40-year-old told reporters on July 3.
Hamilton's British Grand Prix record is simply phenomenal - on pole seven times, on the podium 15 times - the most by anyone ever at a home race.
Of all his 105 career wins, 2024's victory with Mercedes at Silverstone was one of the most emotional - closing a 56-race gap between wins and a wait of 2½ years.
Until now Hamilton has always raced here with British teams, first McLaren and then Mercedes.
"I don't really know what to expect this weekend," he added.
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