ROUND 12: 🇬🇧 Great Britain
FORMULA 1 QATAR AIRWAYS BRITISH GRAND PRIX 2024
Circuit stats
- First Grand Prix: 1950
- Number of laps: 52
- Circuit Length: 5.891 km
- Race Distance: 306.198 km
- Lap record: 1:27.097 Max Verstappen (2020)
- 2023 winner: Max Verstappen
Track Map
McLaren completely botched what would’ve been their win.
Hulk with a mega P6.
Sargeant drove well for a respectable P11.
Perez drops to 6th in the drivers’ championship, didn’t drop to 7th because of Russell DNF.
Leclerc 💀
I’m impressed that despite tricky conditions we had nor SC nor VSC.
I wonder if Gasly (and eventually Sainz) still believes Alpine can compete at the front of the midfield with their lack of performance and reliability.
So McLaren are now the fastest car on average (averaging over conditions and corner types), have an amazing driver pairing but operationally are the weakest. Red Bull are no longer the fastest but are operationally the best and by quite a margin. They also have the best driver but he is fighting alone. Merc are pretty well balanced - the car is fast but not the fastest, strategy and operations are good but not perfect and the driver line up is amazing.
All three teams are evenly matched. The double header will be fascinating.
I’m just happy for Lewis. Really nice to hear how happy he was, and see the emotion. He earned this one.
Finally, the season is getting interesting!
I think it’s been interesting for awhile personally. This was fantastic though. When the racing is this close I’m happy for anyone to win, but Lewis getting this one has some added weight.
The season could have been an absolute all-timer with just a few marginal outcomes falling differently. The racing has been fantastic lately, and the development race has been insanely fascinating with constant dynamic shifts - remember Merc being slower than Aston at the start and Ferrari looking like the challenger?
A couple of different outcomes for Norris (safety car luck in Montreal, Max DNFing and Norris not last week, pitting for mediums at the end today etc) and we could have also possibly have had actual tension in the championship table. Imagine a second half of the season where McLaren is clearly faster and Max tries hanging on for dear life.
It’s a shame Red Bulls head start from the first races combined with always maximising their results thanks to their incredible operational competency has given Max enough of a cushion to be fairly safe.
Haas scoring 20 points in two races. Didn’t expect that to happen. Also didn’t really notice them during the race, maybe should watch different commentators.
