LANDO'S GOT SOME FIZZ

Brit stars Norris and Hamilton slug it out for champagne podium finish but unstoppable Verstappen wins again

- NEIL RANDON

AS Max Verstappen walked off the podium after his first British Grand Prix victory, Lando Norris shared the spotlight with Lewis Hamilton. 

The British pair turned arm-in-arm and waved to the packed grandstands filled with some of the 160,000 people at Silverstone.

For Norris, finishing second in his home grand prix was the finest moment of his Formula One career, and to share it with Hamilton, the greatest British driver of the modern era - who finished third - put the achievement on a completely different level.

And the 23-year-old had to earn it the hard way.

Sitting on the front row alongside dominant Verstappen, Norris got the better start and led the way the first corner.

into There he stayed for the next five laps, until the Red Bull's superior pace began to tell and Verstappen breezed past to take a lead he'd never relinquish.

Norris was left to fight for second in a dual with Hamilton - the old and the new, the master and the student, the accomplished champion and the young pretender.