Sebastian Vettel has won the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, retaking the lead 5 laps from the end. An eventful race saw Hamilton in last position after the first lap, and two safety cars making for a tense end of the race. Lewis Hamilton recovered to finish second, ahead of Kimi Raikkonen.
And even then he managed to lose couple of positions. I also think he will lost position to Bottas. Statistics are talking this kind of story. Isn't already 20something races in a row where he loses/stays on same position?fabian77 wrote: ↑07 Jul 2018, 17:54Not if Kimi gets another demon start like in Austria, I think the Ferraris will monster Hamilton and the start, should be a cracking race can't wait.
it was only mercedes that asked Pirelli for these tyres and no other team asked or wanted them them, because of that special safety dispensation had to be called upon to push them in use.GPR-A wrote: ↑07 Jul 2018, 16:49
The problem with the normal (older) specification is that, on newly asphalted surfaces, the tyres get heated too fast on outer layer and by the time the inner heats, the outer layer is gone. Hence these new specification tyres. It's not just Mercedes, every team would have struggled with older specification on this track. Remember Ferrari and Vettel's comments after Barcelona test, post the race which shut down this whole special tyre made for Mercedes thingy?
I thought I was the only one who saw that! Was a special moment. I was shaking too and I only have the winter down under!
RS18 is not a top car, McLaren has less aero than last year, so they are hardly worthy of comparison. Red Bull was losing time in corners also, not only on straights. If their set up wasn't good now (we don't know, it's not very easy to extract maximum from tyres obviously, especially from these ones), they could easily loose 3, maybe even 4 tenths. They were 1.5s off in Q last year, now it's 7 tenths. They have lots of draggy bits on their car, and they choose to loose that extra drag from rear wing, so they shouldn't complain. They were clearly fastest in Monaco (not just down to marginally smaller wheelbase) so they can strap on most downforce of Top3 teams, very likely at the expanse of more drag.
... you could add that Ricci said they`ve setup their car more towards the race ...Vanja #66 wrote: ↑07 Jul 2018, 19:23RS18 is not a top car, McLaren has less aero than last year, so they are hardly worthy of comparison. Red Bull was losing time in corners also, not only on straights. If their set up wasn't good now (we don't know, it's not very easy to extract maximum from tyres obviously, especially from these ones), they could easily loose 3, maybe even 4 tenths. They were 1.5s off in Q last year, now it's 7 tenths. They have lots of draggy bits on their car, and they choose to loose that extra drag from rear wing, so they shouldn't complain. They were clearly fastest in Monaco (not just down to marginally smaller wheelbase) so they can strap on most downforce of Top3 teams, very likely at the expanse of more drag.
well played guys, well played... 
