The race is on, and Lewis Hamilton took a controversial but thrilling victory in the British

Grand Prix at Silverstone, but was his penalty for the clash with Max Verstappen on the first lap,

too lenient or too harsh, and how did the Mercedes driver come back to the pri Ferrari charlerc of a shock victory?

I'm Ed Straw and joining me to look back at a remarkable race of Scott Mitchell and Mark Hughes.

Let's start off with you, Scott.

I had a chat with Gary Anderson on a podcast episode we put out yesterday discussing the sprint and looking at it.

So we're not going to talk about that too much.

But before we get into the serious topics that I imagine everyone wants to hear about,

what's your general impression of a sprint format?

Like it, love it, thumbs up, thumbs down?

Yeah, actually, I think it's been a successful introduction, a successful debut of the format.

I was enjoying what it added to the show already because it made Friday much more interesting.

And we've got a few little problems here and there, like the pointless FP2 session on Saturday morning, but I enjoyed

watching a race on Saturday rather than sitting through qualifying because I got to enjoy

qualifying on the Friday. So it's just added an extra element to the weekend. I think it's been

a nice addition. It's made the weekend feel more dynamic. The question I had was obviously were we getting benefits on

Friday and Saturday and then going to have a poorer Sunday as a result because Hamilton was

in a, you could argue, a fractionally slower car and nicked what should have been pole position

in qualifying, but instead Max Mustafa Stappen just had an extra race start to get back in front

and potentially run away into the distance in the Grand Prix. Had that happened today, I think

I'd have been reflecting on the sprint format a little bit more hesitantly, but as it turns out,

the events that we saw on the opening lap of the Grand Prix were probably set up entirely by the fact that Vastappan did take pole position

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