| A.Albon | 584 (1%) |
| C.Sainz,jr. | 313 (1%) |
| Ch.Leclerc | 335 (1%) |
| D.Ricciardo | 341 (1%) |
| E.Ocon | 331 (1%) |
| F.Alonso | 257 (1%) |
| G.Russell | 314 (1%) |
| K.Cunuda | 347 (1%) |
| K.Magnussen | 237 (0%) |
| Kuan-jü Č. | 233 (0%) |
| L.Hamilton | 45038 (88%) |
| L.Norris | 254 (0%) |
| L.Sergeant | 229 (0%) |
| L.Stroll | 338 (1%) |
| M.Verstappen | 335 (1%) |
| N.Hulkenberg | 221 (0%) |
| O.Piastri | 243 (0%) |
| P.Gasly | 317 (1%) |
| S.Pérez | 368 (1%) |
| V.Bottas | 310 (1%) |
This time it was Mark Webber to stand on the pole position, S.Vettel immediately behind him. However, starts just haven't been a M.Webber's thing recently, which is what happened also at the GP of The Great Britain. He hesitated after the start and so S.Vettel got to the first place right away, gaining a huge advantage so the gap on the lap 6 was no less than 4.5s already. Hamilton got from the tenth place very quickly to the fifth but he made a mistake on the lap four and exited the track. M.Schumacher was responsible for an accident with Kobayashi and got a 10s stop-and-go penalty, which put him effectively to the rear.
The key moment was the longer pit stop of S.Vettel, which was immediately exploited by Alonso and Hamilton, whereas Alonso of Ferrari began widening the gap from the others. S.Vettel with his old tires couldn´t get over Hamilton, he went to the pit stop for new ones, which also Hamilton had to do after a while and suddenly S.Vettel was in the second position. F.Alonso was driving away with a gap of more than ten seconds.
J.Button´s retiring from the race was an interesting moment, the engineers didn´t tighten his right front wheel properly, the nut remained in the pneumatic spanner and not the engineer, not the guy with the lolly pop could see it and they let him go, he had to stop having done a couple of meters. This is the beginning of the inner fight between Hamilton and Button, this is perhaps the only plausible explanation of such an incident!!!! People talk only about Sebastian and Mark from Red Bull Racing, but the fight and tension, though hard to see, is much bigger in McLaren. There is something dark behind this mistake.
Starting grid of the GP of Great Britain:
|
M.Webber |
S.Vettel |
|
F.Alonso |
F.Massa |
|
J.Button |
P.di Resta |
|
P.Maldonado |
K.Kobajaši |
|
N.Rosberg |
L.Hamilton |
|
A.Sutil |
S.Perez |
|
M.Schumacher |
V.Petrov |
|
R.Barrichello |
N.Heidfeld |
|
H.Kovalainen |
J.Alguersuari |
|
S.Buemi |
T.Glock |
|
J.Truli |
J.D´Ambrosio |
|
V.Liuzzi |
D.Ricciardo |
There was a fight between the third Webber and the second Vettel. I think that a collision wasn't too far away and both cars might have finished for good. Webber kept trying to overtake Vettel even a couple hundred metres before the finish, he received a command from the pits to keep his distance. I take such a command as acceptable. The journalists immediately want to see it as team orders.
F.Alonso won the first GP for Scuderia Ferrari. Is Ferrari finally getting to the front? We will see in the next races.
GP : 1.F.Alonso, 2.S.Vettel, 3. M.Webber
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