Mehinovic00 won the Silverstone D1 race from second on the grid and scored 26 points. With championship leader TheMekanic17 adding none, the Mercedes driver removed 26 points from the existing advantage in a single meeting.
Lups3252 finished second for Williams and SleekMover third for Haas. Their breakthroughs completed a podium on which the previous round's runaway leader did not appear.
The lead survives; its protection does not
TheMekanic remained first in D1 on 83 points, but Lups moved into second on 64 after scoring 18. The margin stood at 19, down from 34 after Las Vegas.
Mehinovic's swing is the sharper description of Silverstone than a generic claim that the title fight tightened. One driver took the maximum available to him while the leader's total did not move.
Mercedes closes to nine in the constructors' table
Mercedes rose from 70 to 96 D1 constructor points, 26 of them earned in this round. Red Bull stayed on 105, converting a 35-point lead into nine.
Abu Dhabi followed with both D1 championships newly compressed. Silverstone had not removed TheMekanic or Red Bull from first place; Mehinovic had removed almost all the comfort from being there.
