On Sunday in Silverstone there was a feeling that we weren’t just saying farewell or maybe au revoir to the Home of British Motorsport, but to Formula One as we’ve known it for the past 30 years.
Brain the size of a small planet, shy and retiring by nature, recently spotted drenched in champagne, Red Bull F1’s chief technical officer talks exclusively to the Red Bulletin.
Mark Webber reckons his chance of a maiden victory at Silverstone was taken from him in qualifying but claimed he had done the maximum possible to carve out another one-two.
Sebastian Vettel claimed his second victory of the season with a dominant lights-to-flag display at Silverstone and went on to hail the circuit as “fantastic” and the kind of venue where he has always dreamed of racing.
Red Bull Racing senior personnel dubbed today’s one-two result a “dream result” for the team, whose factory is a stone’s throw from Silverstone at Milton Keynes.
When the flag falls at the end of the British Grand Prix, Formula One will enter one of its brief periods of respite: a three-week gap until the next race, the German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring.
After yesterday’s shenanigans, it’s all gone a bit quiet on the political side of the paddock fence today almost as if, in celeb gossip mag style, the rowing couple had gone off to lick their wounds.
Mark Webber slammed Kimi Raikkonen for ruining a possible pole-winning final qualifying lap at Silverstone this afternoon, wondering whether the Finn had been “drinking some vodka”.
Rising this morning to the news that FOTA have decided that it’s their ball and they’ll play with it elsewhere, a man of a more poetic bent than I might have been struck by the symmetry of the timing of it all.
Are Williams drivers Nico Rosberg and Kazuki Nakajima going to miss Silverstone so much that they've built a replica to race around this London basement?