After a rain bathe hit the observe with 25 minutes to go earlier than lights out, all drivers opted to start out the race on intermediate tyres within the low grip circumstances.
Whereas polesitter Lewis Hamilton managed to retain his lead, Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas misjudged his braking into Flip 1, shedding management and operating into the rear of McLaren’s Lando Norris.
This despatched Norris into the trail of Hamilton’s title rival, Max Verstappen, who was additionally hit, whereas Bottas’s automotive bumped into the second Pink Bull of Sergio Perez.
Lance Stroll and Charles Leclerc additionally clashed, sending McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo right into a spin.
The race was shortly positioned behind the security automotive earlier than the crimson flag was finally thrown resulting from particles on the observe, with all vehicles returning to the pit lane.
Bottas, Perez, Stroll and Leclerc have all retired from the race, whereas Verstappen had misplaced the bargeboard on the right-hand facet of his automotive.
Below the crimson flag, Hamilton is the chief forward of Alpine’s Esteban Ocon, with Sebastian Vettel sitting third for Aston Martin.
Williams drivers Nicholas Latifi and George Russell each moved into the highest 10 via the chaos, sitting sixth and eighth, whereas Mick Schumacher lies P10 for Haas.
As seen underneath the final crimson flag at Silverstone, groups are permitted to finish repairs underneath the crimson flag, giving Pink Bull an opportunity to patch up Verstappen’s automotive. He’ll take the restart in thirteenth place.
McLaren was fast to wheel Norris’s automotive again into the storage, with a big chunk of the ground on the left-rear of the automotive visibly lacking.
However the group knowledgeable FIA race director Michael Masi through the general public radio that it needed to retire the automotive underneath the crimson flag, lowering the race to fifteen vehicles.
The stewards swiftly confirmed that the Flip 1 incidents had been underneath investigation.
Race management introduced that the grand prix is ready to renew in roughly quarter-hour from 1518 native time.