Every Lewis Hamilton British Grand Prix win ranked: Which was his greatest?

The seven-time world champion is the most successful driver in the history of the British GP, with his nine wins four ahead of Jim Clark and Alain Prost who are joint-second all time with five. Hamilton will be looking for his second win this season, after taking his first victory for Ferrari at the Barcelona Grand Prix.

Here, GPblog ranks Hamilton's nine British Grand Prix victories from his first in 2008 to his 2024 drought ending triumph. Read through our list and cast your vote in the poll below.

The 2021 British Grand Prix is the most controversial on this list, after the opening lap crash between Hamilton and Max Verstappen that took out his title rival. The crash brought out a red flag giving the Mercedes team time to make some repairs to Hamilton's car.

Hamilton was ruled at fault for the crash and was given a 10-second time penalty which dropped him to fourth. He quickly dispatched Lando Norris and teammate Bottas on team orders. He took the lead from Charles Leclerc on Lap 50 but was fortunate that the Ferrari driver had been suffering with momentary losses of power during the race, otherwise a second place finish looked more likely.

The first British Grand Prix on this list is 2019, where Hamilton returned to the top step, after Sebastian Vettel stopped his rival from winning five in a row the year prior. In 2019 it was a battle between Hamilton and his Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas who had taken pole position.

Hamilton passed Bottas on Lap 4 before the Finnish driver valiantly retook the lead just five laps later. Bottas came into the pits first before Hamilton took advantage of a safety car after Antonio Giovinazzi spun into the gravel. Hamilton took the lead and never looked back, beating his teammate by a massive 24 seconds

Hamilton was the master of changeable conditions at the 2016 British Grand Prix controlling the pack as chaos unfolded behind. Other than a brief moment at Turn 1, Hamilton was in complete control throughout. It was also a big day in the championship as he closed the gap to teammate Nico Rosberg to just one point, after the German was demoted to third for a 10-second penalty after receiving illegal assistance over the team radio.

Hamilton had to fight for victory in 2015 after he lost the lead at the start to Felipe Massa, before making a mistake which allowed the Brazilian's Williams teammate Bottas through into second. Williams asked their drivers to follow team orders to not race and pull away from the two Mercedes cars, something Bottas was not happy with, as he felt he was quicker than Massa.

Mercedes and Hamilton opted for the undercut on Lap 20, and his outlap, the quickest of the race, saw him jump both Williams drivers to take the lead. Rain came later in the race and Hamilton and his rivals had to pit for inters, but he held his nerve to beat teammate Nico Rosberg by 10 seconds.

The 2017 British Grand Prix was far less eventful for Hamilton but perhaps his most dominant, completing a Grand Slam of pole position, fastest lap and race victory. Hamilton stretched out his lead at the start and did so again after a safety car closed the field following a crash involving Carlos Sainz and Daniil Kvyat.

Hamilton cruised to victory with a 14 second gap to teammate Bottas, with the win moving him just one point behind Sebastian Vettel in the standings, after the Ferrari driver languished to a seventh place finish.

Prior to the 2024 British Grand Prix, Hamilton had not won a race since the 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, with Mercedes dominance being replaced by Max Verstappen and Red Bull. Mercedes were confident in 2024 as George Russell lined up alongside Hamilton on the front row.

Hamilton got past Russell on Lap 18 to take the lead, but the two quickly found themselves behind the McLaren of Lando Norris. Hamilton kept himself in contention with a well-timed switch to the intermediates, before successfully completing an undercut on Norris when it was time to come back in for slick tyres. Hamilton fought off a late charge from Verstappen to win by 1.8 seconds and end the longest winless drought of his Formula One career.

Hamilton's first win for Mercedes at Silverstone was a memorable one after a disappointing qualifying session, in which he aborted his final run feeling that he had taken pole position, only to slip down to sixth.

He made a good start jumping up to fourth, before passing the two McLarens of Kevin Magnussen and Jenson Button to go up to second by Lap 4. Hamilton then snatched P1 from Rosberg on Lap 29 down the Wellington Straight, taking a much-needed win, as he closed the gap to his teammate to just four points after the German retired with a gearbox issue.

This victory would likely be further down the list if it was not for one of the most memorable endings to any Formula One race in history. It had been a complete weekend of domination by Mercedes, who looked likely to take a 1-2 finish.

However, things started to unravel when Bottas' left front tyre delaminated resulting in him dropping down the pecking order. Then unbelievably the same happened to Hamilton on the very last lap of the race. Verstappen chased down Hamilton on fresh tyres but Hamilton somehow drove his three-wheeled Mercedes over the line first by over five seconds.

Was there any doubt? Still to this day, Hamilton's finest of his 106 race victories was just the seventh of his career at the 2008 British Grand Prix. It will forever go down as one of the best wet weather drives in the sport's history.

Hamilton started P4 in his McLaren but instantly swept by Kimi Raikkonen and Mark Webber at the start, before diving past teammate Heikki Kovalainen down the inside of Stowe a few corners later. When the rain became increasingly challenging, Hamilton pitted for intermediates and enjoyed a stunning victory on a day where many cars found themselves sliding off the track - with championship rival Massa doing so on five occasions.

Hamilton's winning margin was a massive 68.577 seconds from Nick Heidfeld, with Rubens Barichello the only other driver in the field not to get lapped by the British driver in just his second season of F1.