There were plenty of talking points from a stunning BritishGP, highlighted by thrilling action, strategy dilemmas and a scary start crash Here’s what we learned from this year’s F1 race at Silverstone ⬇️
The 2022 British Grand Prix may have started with horrifying scenes, but it ended with surely the best period of racing so far this season – and to the eyes of many, the best in years.
Ferrari team boss Mattia Binotto – who was caught having a pointed chat with Leclerc immediately after the Monegasque driver had climbed from his car post-race, which Binotto said was a message “simply to stay calm, because the way he drove was fantastic” – gave the following explanation for why Leclerc was left out on his 14-lap hards.
“If we would have stopped, maybe the other ones may have stayed out, and [Leclerc] would have maybe been fourth on soft tyres with other cars ahead of him. Would he have recovered the positions? I’m not sure.” On Sunday, at the red-flag restart, he had ditched his soft tyres for mediums to not quite out-drag Carlos Sainz into Abbey. But then the defending champion sat on the Ferrari’s six to pressure the Spaniard into a mistake at Becketts that appeared to hand Verstappen the win.
The W13 is a sensitive beast so the new pace might not continue at every track, but there was at least greater evidence on show last weekend for Mercedes to take comfort from. Certainly when compared to its Barcelona false dawn. Although Wolff is much more circumspect this after the Spanish gains were only passing... He said: “We have had in Barcelona moments of where we saw some light at the end of the tunnel.
This was in the earlier Formula 2 feature race, where Roy Nissany’s unsafe rejoining from a Stowe off took out Prema Racing’s Dennis Hauger, and the halo then protected Nissany from serious injury when Hauger’s wreckage speared onto the side of the DAMS-run car at Club having been sent airborne by the kerbs.
The most noteworthy, most visible design change at Williams was the FW44 moving from a sidepod inlet that originally had best resembled the Mercedes to one that now might be said to better mimic the RB18. Alpine appears to have taken some inspiration from Milton Keynes for its new inlets too but has also considered a concave sidepod design like that of Ferrari.
While perhaps the most visceral and nostalgic example, Vettel’s glorious-sounding demo run was not the only way the F1 paddock sought to engage in positive change over. Alpine launched its Raceer gender diversity-inspired programme that aims to triple the number of females in its team and possibly culminate with a female driver. Meanwhile, Lewis Hamilton’s Ignite Partnership initiative announced its first grants that will work to improve diversity and inclusion with motorsport.
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