F1 2013: The British Grand Prix.

[Ferry_vO]

Qualifying results:

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Laps
1	10	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:30.995	1:31.224	1:29.607	12
2	9	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1:31.355	1:31.028	1:30.059	12
3	1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing-Renault	1:31.559	1:30.990	1:30.211	14
4	2	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing-Renault	1:31.605	1:31.002	1:30.220	15
5	14	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	1:32.062	1:31.291	1:30.736	19
6	19	Daniel Ricciardo	STR-Ferrari	1:32.097	1:31.182	1:30.757	20
7	15	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1:32.002	1:31.097	1:30.908	17
8	8	Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Renault	1:31.466	1:31.530	1:30.955	23
9	7	Kimi Räikkönen	Lotus-Renault	1:31.400	1:31.592	1:30.962	17
10	3	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1:32.266	1:31.387	1:30.979	16
11	5	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1:31.979	1:31.649		12
12	4	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:32.241	1:31.779		15
13	18	Jean-Eric Vergne	STR-Ferrari	1:32.105	1:31.785		16
14	6	Sergio Perez	McLaren-Mercedes	1:31.953	1:32.082		15
15	11	Nico Hulkenberg	Sauber-Ferrari	1:32.168	1:32.211		15
16	16	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Renault	1:32.512	1:32.359		18
17	17	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Renault	1:32.664			10
18	12	Esteban Gutierrez	Sauber-Ferrari	1:32.666			11
19	20	Charles Pic	Caterham-Renault	1:33.866			6
20	22	Jules Bianchi	Marussia-Cosworth	1:34.108			8
21	21	Giedo van der Garde	Caterham-Renault	1:35.481			3
22	23	Max Chilton	Marussia-Cosworth	1:35.858			10
		Q1 107% Time		1:37.364

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Note - Van der Garde qualified 21st but was penalised five grid spots for causing a collision at the previous round and therefore starts 22nd.

 

[Panther_99FS]

As things stand right now,
Lewis is looking quite brilliant for leaving McLaren. Also, "kudos" to Force India Mercedes for out-qualifying McLaren Mercedes....

And finally, great to see Nico blossoming now that Michael is gone....

 

[Ferry_vO]

Fifteen laps into the race, and the safety car is now out to clean all the debris from three major tire blow-outs.... Pirelli once again making an @$$ of themselves...

 

[Panther_99FS]

Wasn't there some defense of Pirelli around here in this forum earlier in the season :ques:

 

[Panther_99FS]

Edit: The announcers just said that Pirelli wanted to bring out a new compound to this race but the TEAMS couldn't agree on it.

Pirelli=1
Teams=0

 

[Ferry_vO]

There are two kinds of teams at the moment: Those with tire wear issues (Red Bull, Mercedes) and those without (Lotus, Force India) so they'll never agree on which tire they want/need..

As for Pirelli, they changed the construction of the tire a few races ago to prevent delamination and now four tires explode.. Then there's the 'tire-gate' testing affair with Mercedes and their lack of ability to produce a consistent set of tires..

 

[Ferry_vO]

Results:

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Pts
1	9	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	52	Winner	2	25
2	2	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing-Renault	52	+0.7 secs	4	18
3	3	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	52	+7.1 secs	9	15
4	10	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	52	+7.7 secs	1	12
5	7	Kimi Räikkönen	Lotus-Renault	52	+11.2 secs	8	10
6	4	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	52	+14.5 secs	11	8
7	15	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	52	+16.3 secs	6	6
8	19	Daniel Ricciardo	STR-Ferrari	52	+16.5 secs	5	4
9	14	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	52	+17.9 secs	21	2
10	11	Nico Hulkenberg	Sauber-Ferrari	52	+19.7 secs	14	1
11	16	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Renault	52	+21.1 secs	15
12	17	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Renault	52	+25.0 secs	16
13	5	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	52	+25.9 secs	10
14	12	Esteban Gutierrez	Sauber-Ferrari	52	+26.2 secs	17
15	20	Charles Pic	Caterham-Renault	52	+31.6 secs	18
16	22	Jules Bianchi	Marussia-Cosworth	52	+36.0 secs	19
17	23	Max Chilton	Marussia-Cosworth	52	+67.6 secs	20
18	21	Giedo van der Garde	Caterham-Renault	52	+67.7 secs	22
19	8	Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Renault	51	+1 Lap	7
20	6	Sergio Perez	McLaren-Mercedes	46	+6 Laps	13
Ret	1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing-Renault	41	+11 Laps	3
Ret	18	Jean-Eric Vergne	STR-Ferrari	35	Tyre	12

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Note - Van der Garde qualified 21st but was penalised five grid spots for causing a collision at the previous round. Di Resta qualified 5th but excluded from qualifying for underweight car. Allowed to start from back of grid.


Good win for Nico, too bad Webber couldn't quite make it in his last British GP, good points for Alonso especially now that Vettel failed to score. Impressive fight back to the front for both Hamilton and Massa, but the safety cars helped them a lot.

 

[arfyhun]

Watched it on the tele Ferry_vO, didn't those tyres brew up or what! There's a running story to be told about that fiasco. Keep watching.....


Graham.

 

[Panther_99FS]

Amazing comebacks by Massa & Hamilton and also a great job by Nico to hold it together after a sluggish earlier race re-start.

 

[Panther_99FS]

There are two kinds of teams at the moment: Those with tire wear issues (Red Bull, Mercedes) and those without (Lotus, Force India) so they'll never agree on which tire they want/need..

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One user in a SPEEDTV thread posted the following comment which I thought was interesting:

...I can excuse the severe tire degradation because that seemed to be a ploy by the F.I.A. to punish cars like the Red Bull that produce high amounts of downforce...

 

[Firekitten]

Well I've just gotten back from Silverstone!

Great race weekend, really good racing.

FP:
Pretty normal, rain spoilt play on Friday but Saturday morning was good.

Qualy: so so, normal fare really.

Race: wow, quite an exciting one, atmosphere was mad, temperature up in the 27-28c range, so quite a scorcher... possibly leading to the tyre issues, cold track, hot air? That or a damaged kerb, as it seemed to all occur into the Beckets Complex... which is a kerb hugging section.
Vettel going out lead to a massive roar from the crowd... apparently we don't like him Great finish, great diversity, and awesome to see Webber on the podium for his final British GP, he deserved it.

Props go to the Caterham and Marussia of Chilton and Pic that fought tooth and nail throughout the race, even at the back they fought hard, at one point going through Vale and Club side by side... (the entire series of corners... very exciting moment!)

My drivers of the weekend: Di Resta, awesome recovery, and Hamilton for his decent fightback and SO SO SO nearly taking Alonso into Vale and Club on the last lap... From the grandstand at Vale, the atmosphere was so electric as he tried to pounce... pity, but the best drivers won.



As for the Speedtv comment... conspiracy? meh, would Bernie like to? probably, could it happen? no, though I expect Pirelli were rather upset for one. Is strange that the supposed rapid deflation proofing that Pirelli did which lead to so many de laminations revered to spectacular failures here... My money is on the high side loading and damage to kerbs.