2011 BRITISH GRAND PRIX - Live Thread

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2011 BRITISH GRAND PRIX

Venue: Valencia, Spain
Date: Sunday 26 June
Lap length: 3.367 miles
Race laps: 57
2010 winner: Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull)
First grand prix: 2008

Fri Sunny 18c

Sat Sunny 21c

Sun Cloudy 20c

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Stuff...

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton has hit back at his detractors as prepares for this weekend's British Grand Prix.
Full story: London's Evening Standard

Ferrari driver Felipe Massa will not let speculation over his future distract him as he prepares for Silverstone, despite persistent reports that he is set to be replaced. (Press Association)

Jenson Button is hoping for rain at Silverstone as he bids to record his first podium finish at a British Grand Prix. The 2009 world champion's best finish in the race to date is fourth.
Full story: Daily Express

Formula 1's governing body, the FIA, has announced that there will only be one DRS zone at Silverstone. It will be positioned from just after turn four to include the turn five kink and the Wellington straight on the run down to Brooklands.
Full story: ESPN F1

Red Bull's championship leader Sebastian Vettel says his victory salute, where he thrusts his index finger skywards, is not a sign of arrogance or ruthless self-belief.
Full story: The Times (subscription required)

F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone is hopeful South Africa can make a return to the grand prix calendar. A deal could be signed within weeks which would see Cape Town added to the schedule. The last race to be held in the country was in 1993, when Alain Prost won at Kyalami for Williams.
Full story: Daily Express

"The key element on Friday is SW gusts of 30-35mph, making v tricky conditions. Saturday breezy; SW gusts 20-30mph. Crosswind element will be key factor Fri/Sat, especially likely to greatly unsettle cars thro Becketts/Maggots section."
BBC weatherman Ian Fergusson on Twitter

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/9532511.stm

[West Texas Chuck]

I got two words for ya: Seb Vettel.

[Never on my watch]

They’re holding the British Grand Prix in Spain?

[PAR35]

I knew that managment was making a mess of F1, but running the British GP in Spain???

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Venue: Silverstone, Northamptonshire
Date: Sunday 11 July
Lap length: 3.660 miles
Race laps: 52
2010 winner: Mark Webber (Red Bull)
First grand prix: 1948

[PAR35]

No, it looks like even they aren’t foolish enough to try the British GP in Spain. It looks like you need a new source. The info looks bad across the board. Course lenght wrong, wrong winner - Vettel won the pole, not the race, wrong number of laps....

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

The British Grand Prix is in Spain...

Am I missing something?

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Ah! OK, makes more sense. Never mind my other post.

Don’t worry. I understand. As race day approaches, all the blood goes to your little head and you don’t think as clearly. You just want beer, ethanol, motor fumes and loud noise. Perfectly understandable.

[Liberty Valance]

[WayneS]

What beter way to promote globalism and the European Union?

;-)

[raygun]

Silverstone is a fun course to run on. Its got some tricky corners. The last two prior to the grandstand are particularly ornary.

Silverstone has some significant terrain to deal with, e.g., between Club & Priory. In between The Bridge & Priory its downhill and very bumpy. Gotta have the setup dialed in correctly to enter Brooklands correctly; car has to be able to handle the roll for the hard left entry to Brooklands followed by the very hard right through Luffield.

If the set-up aint right, you'll burn up the tires.

Given the significant elevation changes on various parts of the course, gearing is critical also. Coming out of Abbey and you're climing 20' easily.

[Elle Bee]

British summer

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second practice...

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Time/Retired	Gap	Laps
1	6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:49.967		9
2	8	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1:50.744	0.777	16
3	16	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1:51.395	1.428	16
4	3	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1:51.438	1.471	6
5	4	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1:51.518	1.551	6
6	14	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1:51.738	1.771	18
7	15	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	1:51.781	1.814	7
8	11	Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	1:51.992	2.025	13
9	17	Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	1:52.169	2.202	12
10	18	Sebastien Buemi	STR-Ferrari	1:52.189	2.222	21
11	10	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1:52.198	2.231	9
12	7	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1:52.325	2.358	12
13	20	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Renault	1:52.578	2.611	16
14	2	Mark Webber	RBR-Renault	1:52.587	2.620	6
15	5	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1:52.869	2.902	8
16	9	Nick Heidfeld	Renault	1:54.023	4.056	8
17	19	Jaime Alguersuari	STR-Ferrari	1:54.274	4.307	16
18	1	Sebastian Vettel	RBR-Renault	1:54.545	4.578	4
19	25	Jerome d'Ambrosio	Virgin-Cosworth	1:54.714	4.747	13
20	12	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Cosworth	1:55.155	5.188	8
21	21	Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Renault	1:55.155	5.188	12
22	24	Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	1:55.549	5.582	10
23	22	Daniel Ricciardo	HRT-Cosworth	1:55.828	5.861	10
24	23	Vitantonio Liuzzi	HRT-Cosworth	1:56.037	6.070	6

[Elle Bee]

Whitmarsh questions blown diffuser regulations

McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh has questioned the supposed disparity in terms of the new off-throttle blown diffuser regulations introduced ahead of this weekend's British Grand Prix, explaining that engine supplier Renault has successfully negotiated with the FIA in order to limit the damage of the sport's newest ruling.

It has been revealed that reigning Champions Red Bull have been allowed to keep throttle levels at 50 percent under braking with their engine units, 30 percent more than universally agreed when the cut-back was outlined earlier in the season.

"We learnt half-way through the session that Christian (Horner) hadn’t lost as much as we expected as obviously the rules are slightly fluid and appear to change by the hour at the moment, so we are still learning is the answer," Whitmarsh explained during the Friday press conference at the newly refurbished Silverstone circuit.

"I think the expectation is that when you are off the throttle the engine throttles would be closed but there has been a negotiation and as I understand Renault’s throttles are 50 percent open under braking and I think that is probably not what most of us expected coming into this event.

"That’s been a little bit of a revelation that we gathered during the course of the sessions today and we are trying to understand what we have to do."

However, Red Bull Racing Team Principal Christian Horner responded to the comments made by Whitmarsh and believes the FIA has reacted to the 'very complex situation' in a fair manner, making allowances for individual engine manufacturers.

"Martin’s interpretation is interesting," Horner said. "There has been a series of technical directives that have happened since Valencia and the latest technical directive is quite clear in that engines that have been run in previous configurations the FIA would take into account on an equitable basis.

"I think there was an expectation that coming here obviously a lot of focus has been placed on Red Bull. Do Red Bull have a silver bullet ion their car? We don’t but at the same time we expect the FIA to regulate in a fair and proper manner and that’s exactly what they have done in this case. They are the only ones with all the facts. They are the only ones with the data and they have looked at it."

In Renault’s case, the main factor behind the FIA’s allowance is reliability-related, with the engine manufacturer concerned about the race-long effects of the rule changes.

"They have listened to Mercedes case and allowed Mercedes certain parameters. They have looked at Renault’s case and they have allowed certain parameters based on an historical content, if you like, on what is a very, very complex subject.

"It perhaps would have been better dealt with at the end of the season, when the exhausts move to a completely different location which will remove an awful lot of the emotion that seems to surround this topic."

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Pos	No	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Laps
1	2	Mark Webber	RBR-Renault	1:32.670	1:31.673	1:30.399	19
2	1	Sebastian Vettel	RBR-Renault	1:32.977	1:32.379	1:30.431	19
3	5	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1:32.986	1:31.727	1:30.516	20
4	6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:32.760	1:31.640	1:31.124	16
5	4	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1:34.230	1:32.273	1:31.898	21
6	15	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	1:34.472	1:32.569	1:31.929	14
7	12	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Cosworth	1:32.702	1:32.588	1:31.933	16
8	16	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1:34.324	1:32.399	1:32.128	16
9	8	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1:34.186	1:32.295	1:32.209	18
10	3	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1:33.581	1:32.505	1:32.376	20
11	14	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1:34.454	1:32.617		14
12	17	Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	1:34.145	1:32.624		14
13	7	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1:34.160	1:32.656		15
14	10	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1:34.428	1:32.734		14
15	11	Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	1:33.532	1:33.119		12
16	9	Nick Heidfeld	Renault	1:35.132	1:33.805		15
17	20	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Renault	1:34.923	1:34.821		9
18	19	Jaime Alguersuari	STR-Ferrari	1:35.245			7
19	18	Sebastien Buemi	STR-Ferrari	1:35.749			7
20	24	Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	1:36.203			7
21	21	Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Renault	1:36.456			4
22	25	Jerome d'Ambrosio	Virgin-Cosworth	1:37.154			6
23	23	Vitantonio Liuzzi	HRT-Cosworth	1:37.484			7
24	22	Daniel Ricciardo	HRT-Cosworth	1:38.059			6
		Q1 107% Time		1:39.156