Lewis Hamilton digs deep to turn despair into joy at British Grand Prix | Giles Richards
The Mercedes driver showed his passionate side to close the gap on Nico Rosberg and his personality could make all the difference in this F1 world championship battle
After what might be described as a trying summer for British sport fans, the huge crowd thronging the circuit at Silverstone had real reason to celebrate. But their full-throated joy still seemed a whisper to the untrammelled elation Lewis Hamilton brought to the podium as he took his second win at his home grand prix and most importantly put his fight for the world championship title back on track.
The grand old airfield was itself celebrating as it hosted its 50th grand prix, having held the very first F1 world championship round in 1950, and could have hoped for no more than a British winner to top it off. Hamilton delivered and although we were denied the pitch battle that he may have enjoyed with Nico Rosberg had the German not suffered a gearbox failure, he drove his own race to perfection.
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