2011 British Grand Prix
The Grand Prix of Great Britain 2011 was held on July 10 held at the Silverstone Circuit in Silverstone and was the ninth race of the Formula 1 2011 season.
- 3.1 qualifying
- 3.2 race
- 4.1 Drivers' Championship
- 4.2 Constructors' Championship
Reports
Background
After the European Grand Prix Sebastian Vettel led the drivers' championship with 77 points ahead of Jenson Button and Mark Webber with 77 points before. Red Bull -Renault resulted in the constructors' championship with 89 points ahead of McLaren -Mercedes with 166 points ahead of Ferrari.
From this Grand Prix, the intermediate gas - ban came into force. Previously, it was possible to let the engine continue to run even when braking to flow with the exhaust diffuser. After it came on Friday afternoon to arguments of the team principals Christian Horner (Red Bull -Renault ) and Martin Whitmarsh (McLaren -Mercedes) on an exemption for the Renault engine, this exemption was withdrawn on Saturday. Originally Renault would open the throttle up to 50% and may ignite six of eight cylinders, while the Mercedes and Cosworth engines open the throttle only up to 10 %, and four of the eight cylinders may ignite. An exemption for the Mercedes engines that can relight their motor reliability problems due to crankcase during braking remains. The technical director of Red Bull, Adrian Newey, felt with these rule changes is reminiscent of the 1994 Formula 1 season. At that time, largely developed by him at Williams -Renault traction control and active suspension have been banned.
At the Grand Prix of Great Britain presented Pirelli riders the Hard tire compounds (silver) and soft (yellow), as well as for wet conditions Intermediates (light blue ) and Full - Wets (orange ) are available.
Daniel Ricciardo was at the Grand Prix of Great Britain made his Grand Prix debut. He replaced Narain Karthikeyan HRT -Cosworth. Ricciardo previously took for Toro Rosso part in the first free practice sessions this season.
Ferrari changed before the Grand Prix its official name of Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro Scuderia Ferrari. The last time the team entered the Grand Prix of Japan in 1996 under that name. This Ferrari and Philip Morris International responded to the criticism of anti -tobacco organizations. Ferrari also celebrated the 60th anniversary of their first Formula 1 victory. On July 14, 1951 won with José González Froilán the Grand Prix of Great Britain for the first time a driver for the Italian team.
With Michael Schumacher ( three times), Rubens Barrichello, Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton, Vettel and Webber (once each ) were six former winners of this Grand Prix.
Training
In the first free practice session, which took place in wet conditions, Webber posted the fastest lap ahead of Schumacher and Barrichello. In this training Nico Hülkenberg the Force India of Adrian Sutil and Karun Chandhok took over the Lotus of Heikki Kovalainen. In the second free practice most pilots went until the last third of the track, then the track was wet again and the driver wanted to use little tires. Felipe Massa ended up being the fastest driver in front of Nico Rosberg and Kamui Kobayashi. In the third free practice session, in which the driver consistently used slicks, Vettel won ahead of Alonso and Webber.
Qualifying
In the first phase of qualifying Webber set the fastest lap. Since it started raining at the end of the section, the pilots were in the final phase no longer be able to improve their times. The HRT, Virgin and Toro Rosso drivers and Jarno Trulli retired from. In the second qualifying segment in the back slicks were used Massa took the lead position. The Renault driver and Kovalainen, Barrichello, Schumacher, Sergio Perez and Sutil dropped out. In the third section, finally, Webber scored the pole position ahead of Vettel and Alonso. In this segment, there was light rain in the last few minutes.
Race
Alonso won the race ahead of Vettel and Webber. He scored the first win of the season for Scuderia Ferrari.
The race started in wet conditions. However, the track dried during the race, so that the driver nor changed in the first half of the race on slicks.
Vettel took the lead from Webber at the start and lost it again in a faulty pit stop Alonso. In the further course of the race, he failed to catch his opponent again.
With Fernando Alonso for the fifth time in a row won another driver. After Michael Schumacher as the last driver at least twice won the Grand Prix ( 1998, 2002 and 2004) have now succeeded Alonso ( before 2006). Thus, the series of eight different winners was interrupted since the Grand Prix of Great Britain 2003.
Message list
Classifications
Qualifying
Race
WM stands after the race
, The first ten of the race were 25, 18, 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 and 1 point (s).