Formula One 2010

[EddieG]

Fair dues to Webber, I swear after the race he went over the radio "Not your second driver anymore, am I?

[Adam]

Yeah he said 'not bad for the second driver, is it?' or something to that effect. Maybe he'll give Red Bull a re-think now...but then I wouldn't be surprised if the blatant favouritism towards Vettel continued.

[Rich]

Fair dues to Webber, I swear after the race he went over the radio "Not your second driver anymore, am I?

The phrase is "Fair do's"

Good race, was nice to see the McLaren's come back to life following saturday, couple of things annoyed me. The safety car brought Vettel back in to contention and was the main reason he got points (did not want.), and that penalty against Alonso was horrible he should have been given a 5 second post race penalty, not that sack of shit drive through.

In other bits, great performance from Nico and Kobyashi again, lovely to see them getting points and a double points finish for Williams in Britiain, put a smile on my face.

[EddieG]

Fair dues to Webber, I swear after the race he went over the radio "Not your second driver anymore, am I?

The phrase is "Fair do's"

Good race, was nice to see the McLaren's come back to life following saturday, couple of things annoyed me. The safety car brought Vettel back in to contention and was the main reason he got points (did not want.), and that penalty against Alonso was horrible he should have been given a 5 second post race penalty, not that sack of shit drive through.

In other bits, great performance from Nico and Kobyashi again, lovely to see them getting points and a double points finish for Williams in Britiain, put a smile on my face.

Fair do's, thanks for the correction.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Red Bull's Mark Webber cruised to a dominant victory in the British Grand Prix from McLaren's Lewis Hamilton.

The Australian took the lead at the start after making a better start than team-mate Sebastian Vettel.

Vettel's attempt to retain the lead around the outside of Copse led to a puncture that ruined his race.

Hamilton seized second after a poor start by Ferrari's Fernando Alonso, while Mercedes' Nico Rosberg was third ahead of McLaren's Jenson Button.

Webber said over the team radio: "Not bad for a number two driver."

That was a reference to his unhappiness over the team's decision to take the only remaining new front wing off his car and give it to Vettel ahead of qualifying on Saturday.

Heh, I love Webber and can't stand Vettel so this weekend has turned out very pleasantly after the qualifying situation between the two of them.

Also, Button puts in a fantastic drive for fourth, I just wish he could actually qualify decently from time to time.

[Lineker]

That was an awesome day. Here's our view from our seats at Copse.

Here are the results.. been off EWB for a few weeks but normal service is now resumed.

PROVISIONAL RACE RESULTS


The British Grand Prix

Silverstone, Britain;

52 laps; 306.747km;

Weather: Sunny.


Classified:


Pos  Driver        Team                       Time

 1.  Webber        Red Bull-Renault           1h24:38.200

 2.  Hamilton      McLaren-Mercedes           +     1.360

 3.  Rosberg       Mercedes                   +    21.307

 4.  Button        McLaren-Mercedes           +    21.986

 5.  Barrichello   Williams-Cosworth          +    31.456

 6.  Kobayashi     Sauber-Ferrari             +    32.171

 7.  Vettel        Red Bull-Renault           +    36.734

 8.  Sutil         Force India-Mercedes       +    40.932

 9.  Schumacher    Mercedes                   +    41.599

10.  Hulkenberg    Williams-Cosworth          +    42.012

11.  Liuzzi        Force India-Mercedes       +    42.459

12.  Buemi         Toro Rosso-Ferrari         +    47.627

13.  Petrov        Renault                    +    59.374

14.  Alonso        Ferrari                    +  1:02.385

15.  Massa         Ferrari                    +  1:07.489

16.  Trulli        Lotus-Cosworth             +     1 lap

17.  Kovalainen    Lotus-Cosworth             +     1 lap

18.  Glock         Virgin-Cosworth            +     1 lap

19.  Chandhok      HRT-Cosworth               +    2 laps

20.  Yamamoto      HRT-Cosworth               +    2 laps


Fastest lap: Alonso, 1:30.874


Not classified/retirements:


Driver        Team                         On lap

Alguersuari   Toro Rosso-Ferrari           45

De la Rosa    Sauber-Ferrari               30

Kubica        Renault                      20

Di Grassi     Virgin-Cosworth              10



World Championship standings, round 10:                


Drivers:                    Constructors:             

 1.  Hamilton     145        1.  McLaren-Mercedes          278

 2.  Button       133        2.  Red Bull-Renault          249

 3.  Webber       128        3.  Ferrari                   165

 4.  Vettel       121        4.  Mercedes                  126

 5.  Alonso        98        5.  Renault                    89

 6.  Rosberg       90        6.  Force India-Mercedes       47

 7.  Kubica        83        7.  Williams-Cosworth          31

 8.  Massa         67        8.  Sauber-Ferrari             15

 9.  Schumacher    36        9.  Toro Rosso-Ferrari         10

10.  Sutil         35       

11.  Barrichello   29       

12.  Kobayashi     15       

13.  Liuzzi        12       

14.  Buemi          7       

15.  Petrov         6       

16.  Alguersuari    3       

17.  Hulkenberg     2       


All timing unofficial[/code]


Really, really awesome race live. The crowd quite literally erupted when Vettel had his 'misfortune'. Went with an uncle and his friends - who knew a couple of people in the Virgin and Lotus pits - they both gave him souvenirs from their garages - a wheel aligner thingy (how technically described) from Virgin and I believe some kind of starter from Lotus.


So glad that F1 never got to Donington. God I love Silverstone!

[LUKIE]

Sucks for Kubica. He could have easily made it 4th or 5th...

I disagree with everyone on the re-feulling. I love that they have gotten rid of it. It means that it's closer racing throughout. Not usually #1/#2, but then again there has been more of that this year then previous years, as everyone is always running close, instead of staggered over the circuit from re-fuelling stops at different times.

[Lineker]

So Bruno Senna is back in the cockpit at Hockenheim next weekend and Yamamoto will race once again for HRT, in place of Chandhok this time.

[Katsuya]

Interestingly, the press release said that he was "likely" to be back at races later in the season. So that sounds more like Yamamoto is going to be around a little bit longer than just Hockenheim. Also, Toro Rosso have said that Buemi & Alguesuari are racing for them in 2011, but now Buemi's saying that he's not agreed anything yet (apparently Renault want him).

[Lineker]

Renault could also be in for Timo Glock though.

I'm thinking HRT could do what Red Bull did back in their debut season (2005) - alternative drivers.

They had Coulthard as their main driver and kept swapping between Liuzzi and Christian Klien. They're obviously trying to figure out their strongest combination for next year. Wouldn't be suprised to see Klien (incidentally HRT's other test driver) race in upcoming rounds as well.

[Katsuya]

Didn't they very quickly realise that Klien was far superior in the car to Liuzzi though and stick with him for the majority of the season? Also, I'm pretty sure that was an already established plan that they were going to do that, this seems like HRT making it up as they go along.

[Lineker]

Former McLaren driver David Coulthard led the team. Coulthard was chosen for his experience, considered ideal to help lead the fledgling team. For the second car, Red Bull shared the drive between two of its young sponsored drivers: Christian Klien, who had driven for Jaguar in 2004 and 2004 F3000 champion Vitantonio Liuzzi. At first it was announced that Klien and Liuzzi would swap driving duty every four races, but by the end of the season Liuzzi had appeared only four times.

Wikipedia.

I can only think that HRT are using this season to assess their options for next year when they might actually have a raceable car.

[Lineker]

P1


Pos  Driver         Team                   Time              Laps

 1.  Sutil          Force India-Mercedes   1:25.701            20

 2.  Massa          Ferrari                1:26.850  + 1.149   27

 3.  Button         McLaren-Mercedes       1:26.936  + 1.235   16

 4.  Barrichello    Williams-Cosworth      1:26.947  + 1.246   21

 5.  Petrov         Renault                1:26.948  + 1.247   21

 6.  Rosberg        Mercedes               1:27.448  + 1.747   20

 7.  Buemi          Toro Rosso-Ferrari     1:28.114  + 2.413   31

 8.  Hulkenberg     Williams-Cosworth      1:28.193  + 2.492   24

 9.  Liuzzi         Force India-Mercedes   1:28.300  + 2.599   19

10.  de la Rosa     Sauber-Ferrari         1:28.486  + 2.785   23

11.  Vettel         Red Bull-Renault       1:28.735  + 3.034   21

12.  Glock          Virgin-Cosworth        1:28.735  + 3.034   21

13.  Kubica         Renault                1:28.903  + 3.202   20

14.  Webber         Red Bull-Renault       1:29.048  + 3.347   13

15.  Trulli         Lotus-Cosworth         1:29.280  + 3.579   17

16.  Alguersuari    Toro Rosso-Ferrari     1:29.366  + 3.665   34

17.  Hamilton       McLaren-Mercedes       1:29.429  + 3.728    8

18.  di Grassi      Virgin-Cosworth        1:29.500  + 3.799   19

19.  Alonso         Ferrari                1:29.684  + 3.983   15

20.  Kobayashi      Sauber-Ferrari         1:29.690  + 3.989   17

21.  Fauzy          Lotus-Cosworth         1:30.938  + 5.237   27

22.  Senna          HRT-Cosworth           1:31.720  + 6.019   23

23.  Schumacher     Mercedes               1:32.450  + 6.749   13

24.  Yamamoto       HRT-Cosworth           1:32.791  + 7.090   26


All Timing Unofficial[/code]




Sutil excelling in the wet again, real topsy-turvy session this one seemed. Hamilton severely screwed up his car though in the conditions but McLaren did well to repair it for P2.



[code]P2


Pos  Driver         Team                    Time              Laps

 1.  Alonso         Ferrari                 1:16.265            35

 2.  Vettel         Red Bull-Renault        1:16.294  + 0.029   26

 3.  Massa          Ferrari                 1:16.438  + 0.173   37

 4.  Webber         Red Bull-Renault        1:16.585  + 0.320   40

 5.  Rosberg        Mercedes                1:16.827  + 0.562   32

 6.  Schumacher     Mercedes                1:16.971  + 0.706   20

 7.  Hamilton       McLaren-Mercedes        1:17.004  + 0.739   10

 8.  Kubica         Renault                 1:17.009  + 0.744   37

 9.  Barrichello    Williams-Cosworth       1:17.056  + 0.791   37

10.  Hulkenberg     Williams-Cosworth       1:17.204  + 0.939   44

11.  Kobayashi      Sauber-Ferrari          1:17.336  + 1.071   44

12.  Petrov         Renault                 1:17.547  + 1.282   35

13.  de la Rosa     Sauber-Ferrari          1:17.573  + 1.308   39

14.  Sutil          Force India-Mercedes    1:17.701  + 1.436   38

15.  Button         McLaren-Mercedes        1:17.739  + 1.474   36

16.  Liuzzi         Force India-Mercedes    1:17.871  + 1.606   33

17.  Buemi          Toro Rosso-Ferrari      1:18.147  + 1.882   45

18.  Alguersuari    Toro Rosso-Ferrari      1:19.327  + 3.062   48

19.  Glock          Virgin-Cosworth         1:19.553  + 3.288   30

20.  Trulli         Lotus-Cosworth          1:20.008  + 3.743   34

21.  di Grassi      Virgin-Cosworth         1:20.106  + 3.841   31

22.  Kovalainen     Lotus-Cosworth          1:20.377  + 4.112   37

23.  Senna          HRT-Cosworth            1:21.988  + 5.723   37

24.  Yamamoto       HRT-Cosworth            1:23.066  + 6.801   37


All Timing Unofficial

[Lineker]

P3


Pos  Driver         Team                   Time              Laps

 1.  Vettel         Red Bull-Renault       1:15.103            18

 2.  Alonso         Ferrari                1:15.387  + 0.284   21

 3.  Webber         Red Bull-Renault       1:15.708  + 0.605   16

 4.  Massa          Ferrari                1:15.854  + 0.751   20

 5.  Rosberg        Mercedes               1:16.046  + 0.943   20

 6.  Hamilton       McLaren-Mercedes       1:16.207  + 1.104   13

 7.  Schumacher     Mercedes               1:16.473  + 1.370   16

 8.  Barrichello    Williams-Cosworth      1:16.481  + 1.378   23

 9.  Kubica         Renault                1:16.646  + 1.543   20

10.  Hulkenberg     Williams-Cosworth      1:16.743  + 1.640   17

11.  Kobayashi      Sauber-Ferrari         1:16.882  + 1.779   19

12.  Buemi          Toro Rosso-Ferrari     1:16.990  + 1.887   21

13.  Button         McLaren-Mercedes       1:17.037  + 1.934   15

14.  Petrov         Renault                1:17.148  + 2.045   20

15.  de la Rosa     Sauber-Ferrari         1:17.220  + 2.117   19

16.  Alguersuari    Toro Rosso-Ferrari     1:17.341  + 2.238   21

17.  Liuzzi         Force India-Mercedes   1:17.538  + 2.435   22

18.  Kovalainen     Lotus-Cosworth         1:19.193  + 4.090   11

19.  Trulli         Lotus-Cosworth         1:19.607  + 4.504   10

20.  Senna          HRT-Cosworth           1:20.533  + 5.430    9

21.  Yamamoto       HRT-Cosworth           1:21.538  + 6.435   14

22.  di Grassi      Virgin-Cosworth        1:23.444  + 8.341   10

23.  Glock          Virgin-Cosworth        1:23.873  + 8.770    7

24.  Sutil          Force India-Mercedes                        2


All Timing Unofficial[/code]




Adrian Sutil will get a five-place grid penalty his Force India team had to replace his gearbox. The German managed to complete just two untimed laps in final practice before a driveshaft failure forced him to stop. The failure has resulted in the team having to replace the gearbox therefore Sutil will be penalised after qualifying.



[code]Qualifying


Pos  Driver         Team                    Q1        Q2        Q3

 1.  Vettel         Red Bull-Renault        1:15.152   1:14.249  1:13.791

 2.  Alonso         Ferrari                 1:14.808   1:14.081  1:13.793

 3.  Massa          Ferrari                 1:15.216   1:14.478  1:14.290

 4.  Webber         Red Bull-Renault        1:15.334   1:14.340  1:14.347

 5.  Button         McLaren-Mercedes        1:15.823   1:14.716  1:14.427

 6.  Hamilton       McLaren-Mercedes        1:15.505   1:14.488  1:14.566

 7.  Kubica         Renault                 1:15.736   1:14.835  1:15.079

 8.  Barrichello    Williams-Cosworth       1:16.398   1:14.698  1:15.109

 9.  Rosberg        Mercedes                1:16.178   1:15.018  1:15.179

10.  Hulkenberg     Williams-Cosworth       1:16.387   1:14.943  1:15.339

11.  Schumacher     Mercedes                1:16.084   1:15.026

12.  Kobayashi      Sauber-Ferrari          1:15.951   1:15.084

13.  Petrov         Renault                 1:16.521   1:15.307

14.  Sutil          Force India-Mercedes    1:16.220   1:15.467

15.  de la Rosa     Sauber-Ferrari          1:16.450   1:15.550

16.  Alguersuari    Toro Rosso-Ferrari      1:16.664   1:15.588

17.  Buemi          Toro Rosso-Ferrari      1:16.029   1:15.974

18.  Trulli         Lotus-Cosworth          1:17.583

19.  Kovalainen     Lotus-Cosworth          1:18.300

20.  Glock          Virgin-Cosworth         1:18.343

21.  Senna          HRT-Cosworth            1:18.592

22.  Liuzzi         Force India-Mercedes    1:18.952

23.  Yamamoto       HRT-Cosworth            1:19.844

24.  di Grassi      Virgin-Cosworth


All Timing Unofficial

Vettel pole at his home race, massive improvement from Ferrari, and Schumacher not even making Q3 at his home race.

Timo Glock has been handed a ten-place grid penalty his team fitted a new gearbox to his car before qualifying. The German had qualified 20th. That change alone meant that Glock would start from the back of the grid, but his Virgin Racing team also fitted a different seventh gear ratio from the one declared on Friday - which means he will get an additional five-place penalty. Glock's team-mate Lucas di Grassi is also set to be handed a penalty for a gearbox change that will be required tonight after problems he encountered in qualifying.

The FIA stewards also gave Mark Webber a reprimand after qualifying for exceeding the maximum permitted time between the two safety car lines on his qualifying lap that he had aborted following his first corner error. "It was to do with my in-lap, after I made a mistake," said the Australian. "I was a little bit too slow between the two sector lines because I was letting people through as I didn't want to destroy anyone's laps."

Virgin's may as well start back at Silverstone

[Fry_4000]

Now watch both virgin cars retire after about 10 laps with gearbox problems

[Adam]

Team orders yet again...why can't they just let them race? I'm not surprised that Rob Smedley has got the hump on at the garage.

Not looking like a good weekend for Red Bull this. Yt another pole position not capitalised on plus Webber is going to lose ground on both Hamilton & Button.

[Fry_4000]

surely there is going to be some form of punishment because it was so obvious that they told massa to move over.

[Guest Mr. Potato Head]

So, does Jacques Villeneuve have a really grating personality or something? Why does a former F1 champ have so much trouble finding a ride, but PEDRO DE LA ROSA keep getting chances?

[Sam]

Pathetic. They need to be punished for that, it ruins Formula One when you have moments like that. Must be the most hollow victory ever for Alonso.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Oh dear oh dear.