At the start of the race at Silverstone, five cars collided at once: Briton George Russell from Mercedes, Chinese Guanyu Zhou from Alpha Romeo, Japanese Yuki Tsunoda from Alpha Tauri, Frenchman Esteban Okon from Alpine and Briton Alex Albon from Williams got into an accident.

Zhou suffered the most, as his car overturned and hit the guardrails.

Earlier it was reported that the Spanish Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz won the British Grand Prix qualification and took pole position for the first time in his career.