2013 British Grand Prix

2013 British Grand Prix
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The Silverstone Arena layout, 2010–present
Race Details
Date	June 30, 2013
Official Name	2013 Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix
Location	Silverstone Circuit Silverstone, Northants/Bucks, UK
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.891 km (3.660 mi)
Distance	52 laps, 306.332 km (190.346 mi)
Pole Position
Driver	Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
Time	1:29.607
Fastest Lap
Driver	Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault
Time	1:33.401 on lap 52
Podium
First	Nico Rosberg
Second	Mark Webber
Third	Fernando Alonso
Lap Leaders

The 2013 British Grand Prix was the 8th round of the 2013 Formula One Season. It was held over the weekend of 28th–30th June 2013 at the Silverstone Circuit, between Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire, UK. It was the 64th consecutive running of the British Grand Prix as part of the Formula One World Championship, the 47th at the Silverstone Circuit, and the third on the current layout.

Lewis Hamilton took pole position in front of his home crowd, his second pole for Mercedes. Teammate Nico Rosberg joins him on the front row, with Championship leader Sebastian Vettel in third. Fernando Alonso disappointed by qualifying in tenth, which became ninth after fifth-placed Paul di Resta was excluded from qualifying and sent to the back of the grid for having an underweight car.

The race was affected by left-rear tyre punctures to Hamilton, Felipe Massa and Jean-Éric Vergne. Sergio Pérez had a failure of the same tyre in free practice, and then had another in the last few laps. Esteban Gutiérrez had a left-front tyre puncture, making it five punctures. It later emerged that Alonso had also been subject to a puncture, to his right-rear tyre, but made it to the pits in time.

In the end, Rosberg won, ahead of Mark Webber and Alonso. Webber started horribly, but recovered in impressive style. Vettel, who had inherited the lead following Hamilton's tyre failure, suffered a gearbox failure, handing the lead to Rosberg.

Background

Available Tyres
Option	Medium
Prime	Hard
Inters	Intermediate
Wets	Wet

Sebastian Vettel leads the Drivers' World Championship by 36 points from Ferrari's Fernando Alonso going into the British Grand Prix. Vettel's team, Red Bull-Renault lead Ferrari by 56 points in the Constructors' Championship.

Contrary to what had been planned, Pirelli will supply the Hard and Medium compounds of their steel-based tyres for this weekend. An experimental Kevlar-based construction had been tested in Canada with a view to introduction at Silverstone, but has been temporarily rejected due to the limited dry-running in Canada leading to insufficient testing.

An International Tribunal took place prior to this event to discuss the implications of an apparently illegal test conducted by Mercedes on behalf of Pirelli following the Spanish Grand Prix. Both parties were found guilty of illegal testing in line with Rule 22.4(h) of the FIA Sporting Regulations, however no race or championship sanctions were applied as both parties had acted in good faith and Mercedes had not intended to gain a sporting advantage. Instead, both parties were reprimanded and Mercedes suspended from the upcoming Young Drivers Test.

There will be two DRS zones in operation for the British Grand Prix. The first of these, fed by a detection point prior to Village corner (T3), will run along the Wellington Straight. The second, fed by a detection point before the Maggots complex, will run along the length of the Hangar Straight.

On the Thursday before the race, Mark Webber announced his retirement from the sport for the end of the season, meaning it is to be Webber's last British Grand Prix.

Entry list

The full entry list for the 2013 British Grand Prix is shown below:

No.	Driver	Entrant	Constructor	Chassis	Engine	Model	Tyre
1	Sebastian Vettel	Infiniti Red Bull Racing	Red Bull	RB9	Renault	RS27-2013	P
2	Mark Webber	Infiniti Red Bull Racing	Red Bull	RB9	Renault	RS27-2013	P
3	Fernando Alonso	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari	F138	Ferrari	056	P
4	Felipe Massa	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari	F138	Ferrari	056	P
5	Jenson Button	Vodafone McLaren Mercedes	McLaren	MP4-28	Mercedes	FO 108Z	P
6	Sergio Pérez	Vodafone McLaren Mercedes	McLaren	MP4-28	Mercedes	FO 108Z	P
7	Kimi Räikkönen	Lotus F1 Team	Lotus	E21	Renault	RS27-2013	P
8	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	Lotus	E21	Renault	RS27-2013	P
9	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team	Mercedes	W04	Mercedes	FO 108Z	P
10	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team	Mercedes	W04	Mercedes	FO 108Z	P
11	Nico Hülkenberg	Sauber F1 Team	Sauber	C32	Ferrari	056	P
12	Esteban Gutiérrez	Sauber F1 Team	Sauber	C32	Ferrari	056	P
14	Paul di Resta	Sahara Force India F1 Team	Force India	VJM06	Mercedes	FO 108Z	P
15	Adrian Sutil	Sahara Force India F1 Team	Force India	VJM06	Mercedes	FO 108Z	P
16	Pastor Maldonado	Williams F1 Team	Williams	FW35	Renault	RS27-2013	P
17	Valtteri Bottas	Williams F1 Team	Williams	FW35	Renault	RS27-2013	P
18	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	Toro Rosso	STR8	Ferrari	056	P
19	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	Toro Rosso	STR8	Ferrari	056	P
20	Charles Pic	Caterham F1 Team	Caterham	CT03	Renault	RS27-2013	P
21	Giedo van der Garde	Caterham F1 Team	Caterham	CT03	Renault	RS27-2013	P
22	Jules Bianchi	Marussia F1 Team	Marussia	MR02	Cosworth	CA2013	P
23	Max Chilton	Marussia F1 Team	Marussia	MR02	Cosworth	CA2013	P

Practice Overview

FP1

The first practice was not what either the fans, the drivers or the teams wanted. James Rossiter was meant to take part in the session for Force India, but the extreme wet weather meant he did not drive. And to an extent, nor did anyone else. While all the drivers bar Kimi Räikkönen went out on track, it took until the 77th minute of the 90-minute session for a driver to complete a full lap, Daniel Ricciardo setting a time of 2:00.029. He eventually completed ten laps, his fastest time being 1:54.249 and the fastest of the session. Charles Pic had an accident when he slid out of exit of Club Corner into the tyre wall with three minutes left.

Practice Results

No	Driver	Team	FP1		FP2		FP3
			Time	Pos	Time	Pos	Time	Pos
1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	no time	21	1:32.680	3	1:32.037	3
2	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	no time	18	1:32.547	2	1:32.078	4
3	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	no time	17	1:33.494	10	1:32.454	7
4	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	2:06.534	11	1:43.466	22	1:33.273	15
5	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	no time	15	1:33.740	11	1:32.926	12
6	Sergio Pérez	McLaren-Mercedes	no time	19	1:34.130	14	1:33.607	18
7	Kimi Räikkönen	Lotus-Renault	no time	22	1:34.120	13	1:32.459	8
8	Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Renault	no time	14	1:33.322	9	1:32.391	5
9	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	no time	12	1:32.248	1	1:31.487	1
10	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:55.458	4	1:32.911	5	1:31.633	2
11	Nico Hülkenberg	Sauber-Ferrari	1:55.033	2	1:33.896	12	1:33.225	14
12	Esteban Gutiérrez	Sauber-Ferrari	1:55.825	5	1:34.998	15	1:33.370	17
14	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	no time	13	1:32.832	4	1:32.571	10
15	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	no time	16	1:33.313	8	1:32.536	9
16	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Renault	1:55.354	3	1:35.127	17	1:33.133	13
17	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Renault	1:56.361	6	1:35.070	16	1:33.309	16
18	Jean-Éric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:57.891	7	1:33.290	7	1:32.580	11
19	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:54.249	1	1:33.171	6	1:32.440	6
20	Charles Pic	Caterham-Renault	no time	20	1:36.079	20	1:34.971	19
21	Giedo van der Garde	Caterham-Renault	1:58.859	8	1:35.984	19	1:37.443	22
22	Jules Bianchi	Marussia-Cosworth	1:59.876	10	1:35.802	18	1:34.990	20
23	Max Chilton	Marussia-Cosworth	1:59.719	9	1:37.329	21	1:36.694	21

Qualifying

Grid

	Pos.	Pos.
	Driver	Driver
	______________
Row 1	1	______________
	Lewis Hamilton	2
	______________	Nico Rosberg
Row 2	3	______________
	Sebastian Vettel	4
	______________	Mark Webber
Row 3	5	______________
	Daniel Ricciardo	6
	______________	Adrian Sutil
Row 4	7	______________
	Romain Grosjean	8
	______________	Kimi Räikkönen
Row 5	9	______________
	Fernando Alonso	10
	______________	Jenson Button
Row 6	11	______________
	Felipe Massa	12
	______________	Jean-Éric Vergne
Row 7	13	______________
	Sergio Pérez	14
	______________	Nico Hülkenberg
Row 8	15	______________
	Pastor Maldonado	16
	______________	Valtteri Bottas
Row 9	17	______________
	Esteban Gutiérrez	18
	______________	Charles Pic
Row 10	19	______________
	Jules Bianchi	20
	______________	Max Chilton
Row 11	21	______________
	Paul di Resta*	22
	______________	Giedo van der Garde†

* Paul di Resta qualified fifth, but was excluded from qualifying for running an underweight car. He was forced to start from the back of the grid.

^† Giedo van der Garde qualified 21st, but was given a five-place grid penalty for causing a collision at the Canadian Grand Prix, and then another five-place grid penalty for an unscheduled gearbox change.

Race

Results

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	9	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	52	1:32:59.456	2	25
2	2	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	52	+ 0.765 s	4	18
3	3	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	52	+ 7.124 s	9	15
4	10	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	52	+ 7.756 s	1	12
5	7	Kimi Räikkönen	Lotus-Renault	52	+ 11.257 s	8	10
6	4	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	52	+ 14.573 s	11	8
7	15	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	52	+ 16.335 s	6	6
8	19	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	52	+ 16.543 s	5	4
9	14	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	52	+ 17.943 s	21	2
10	11	Nico Hülkenberg	Sauber-Ferrari	52	+ 19.709 s	14	1
11	16	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Renault	52	+ 21.135 s	15
12	17	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Renault	52	+ 25.094 s	17
13	5	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	52	+ 25.969 s	10
14	12	Esteban Gutiérrez	Sauber-Ferrari	52	+ 26.285 s	17
15	20	Charles Pic	Caterham-Renault	52	+ 31.613 s	18
16	22	Jules Bianchi	Marussia-Cosworth	52	+ 36.097 s	19
17	23	Max Chilton	Marussia-Cosworth	52	+ 1 m 7.660 s	20
18	21	Giedo van der Garde	Caterham-Renault	52	+ 1 m 7.759 s	22
19	8	Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Renault	51	Front wing	7
20	6	Sergio Pérez	McLaren-Mercedes	47	Wheel	13
Ret	1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	41	Gearbox	3
Ret	18	Jean-Éric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	35	Puncture damage	12

Milestones

• Williams celebrate their 600th race (this number is calculated including the 1982 San Marino Grand Prix, meaning it is actually their 599th race).
• By starting fifth, Daniel Ricciardo starts higher than he has before.
• Kimi Räikkönen's 5th place was his 25th consecutive point score, beating Michael Schumacher's record of 24.

Standings after race

Drivers' World Championship Pos. Driver Pts 1 Sebastian Vettel 132 2 Fernando Alonso 111 3 Kimi Räikkönen 98 4 Lewis Hamilton 89 5 Mark Webber 87 6 Nico Rosberg 82 7 Felipe Massa 57 8 Paul di Resta 36 9 Romain Grosjean 26 10 Jenson Button 25 11 Adrian Sutil 23 12 Jean-Éric Vergne 13 13 Sergio Pérez 12 14 Daniel Ricciardo 11 15 Nico Hülkenberg 6 16 Pastor Maldonado 0 17 Valtteri Bottas 0 18 Esteban Gutiérrez 0 19 Jules Bianchi 0 20 Charles Pic 0 21 Max Chilton 0 22 Giedo van der Garde 0

Constructors' World Championship Pos. Team Pts 1 Red Bull-Renault 219 2 Mercedes 171 3 Ferrari 168 4 Lotus-Renault 124 5 Force India-Mercedes 59 6 McLaren-Mercedes 37 7 Toro Rosso-Ferrari 24 8 Sauber-Ferrari 6 9 Williams-Renault 0 10 Marussia-Cosworth 0 11 Caterham-Renault 0

Notes

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