Lewis Hamilton claimed a tearful victory at the British Grand Prix last weekend. Hamilton, the most successful driver in F1 history, hadn’t won a race since the 2021 Saudi Arabian GP. That was a drought spanning 954 days and 56 races, by far the longest of his career. Indeed, Hamilton had won at least one race in every single season between 2007 and 2021. At the start of this barren spell, he’d been denied a record-breaking eighth world championship in bitterly controversial circumstances. Max Verstappen snatched the title from his grasp on the final lap of the 2021 Abu Dhabi GP after an error…
