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Claire and the team reflect on what has been described as Lewis Hamilton’s most impressive win of the season. A clever strategy call saw the Mercedes driver take the win from Max Verstappen who led for most of the race. We hear from Lewis and Jack takes us through his holiday reading.

Claire Cottingham and the team reflect on Max Verstappen’s first pole in Formula One. The Red Bull driver starts ahead of the Mercedes pair of Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton who finished second and third. We hear from both Max and Lewis and chat how Williams are slowly making progress.

Jennie and the team try and unpick what happened to Mercedes last time out in Germany that saw them walk away with just two points at their home Grand Prix and ask whether Valtteri Bottas’ seat at Mercedes is under threat.

After a very wet and chaotic afternoon at Hockenheim, Jennie and the team attempt to pick through the bones of a race that saw Max Verstappen take his second victory of the season. We hear from the Dutchman and from Lewis Hamilton who finished 11th.

Jennie is joined by Jack, Jolyon and Andrew to review another disastrous performance by Ferrari where both cars suffered serious mechanical issues. We hear from Sebastian Vettel on that and also from Lewis Hamilton who put it on pole.