Verstappen's delight at pulling away from Mercedes to win at Silverstone

Max Verstappen hopes his win at F1's 70th Anniversary Grand Prix on Sunday will be a sign of things to come for Red Bull Racing.

The Dutchman romped to his ninth Grand Prix win for the Tilbrook team as the Mercedes duo of Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas once again suffered tyre issues in Northamptonshire.

With Verstappen's win, his first of the 2020 campaign, seeing him take Bottas for second place in the standings, Verstappen said he hopes it marks the end of the dominance from the Brackley-based world champions.

"When you are able to overtake and pull away from a Mercedes it is really satisfying," he said. "Of course, I hope this will happen a lot more throughout the season and we’ll keep pushing them hard even though they have been the dominant team up until now.

"We’ll keep pushing, we have a really good team spirit and I love that we never give up and do take risks. We will enjoy today because everyone deserves it after all the hard work, before focusing our attention on next week’s race in Barcelona.

“It’s a great day and I’m very happy with the result as we did everything really well as a Team. The race showed we had the right strategy after our decision to qualify on the hard tyre and I’m pleased it paid off.

"I think the length and pace of our first stint was the key to being competitive as the mediums don’t last that long, so starting on the hard was definitely the right call. We can see the car works well on softer compounds, especially in the race, and it looks after its tyres."

Alex Albon recovered from another lacklustre qualifying performance, where he started ninth, to take fifth place in the race.

He said: "I am happy with today’s race and the car was unbelievable. At the beginning of the race it was tricky to overtake with the DRS train but once we had clear air we had a really good chance to get through the field. I was a bit surprised by the balance and race pace today, it was so good, so we need to go away and understand why. It shows we have a lot of potential in the car, it’s just hard to unlock it sometimes, but we are good in these conditions so now we know to find out why.

"It was a good finish to get fifth and hopefully we can now bring some more performance to next week’s race.”