2026 British Grand Prix - [RACE] discussion thread 🏎️

ROUND 11: 🇬🇧 Great Britain


FORMULA 1 PIRELLI BRITISH GRAND PRIX 2026


Weekend Schedule

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  • Practice 1: Friday, 13:30 CEST | 12:30 BST
  • Sprint Qualifying: Friday, 17:30 CEST | 16:30 BST
  • Sprint: Saturday, 13:00 CEST | 12:00 BST
  • Qualifying: Saturday, 17:00 CEST | 16:00 BST
  • Race: Sunday, 16:00 CEST | 15:00 BST

Circuit stats & Tyres


  • 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)
  • 2025 Pole: Max Verstappen (1:24.892)
  • 2025 Fastest Lap: Oscar Piastri (1:29.337)
  • 2025 winner: Lando Norris
  • Pirelli Tyres: C1 (Hard) ⚪, C2 (Medium) 🟡, C3 (Soft) 🔴
17 points · 38 comments · view on lemmy.world

38 Comments

Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 16 pts · 30d (1 reply)

Antonelli saying he can still fight for a point is some real black knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail energy.

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mamg22@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 30d (4 replies)

Ferrari missing out a 1-2 because of strategy, good result but still managed to fit in a small screw-up in the end

Edit: Audi points yay! :-D

shame Hulkenberg once again with reliability issues, bro can't catch a break (or some points either)

Etnaphele@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 30d (3 replies)

It was the right call, Ham had very old hards vs Rus with newer Mediums (I think). But somehow the FIA manages to mess it up again (I mean with the “Safety car in this lap” message and then: “ups naaa that jesting”)

mamg22@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 30d (2 replies)

Fair, if we had one last racing lap it would have been a great shakeup on the front, Russell could've taken the chance for P1 and probably some fight for podium. But yeah, race got FIAd

Etnaphele@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 30d (1 reply)

No way Russel would have been able to attack, with both Ferraris having Softs. All in all, it was a hard call for Ferrari and they thought they would have had 1 or 2 laps left. I don’t see it as a big mistake.

calamitycastle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 30d

I'd still make the same call now, I think

Etnaphele@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 30d

How do they do it? How do they always ruin it one way or another? FIA must only hire patented idiots looks like

Bademantel@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 30d (4 replies)

No restart? What a disappointment.

Etnaphele@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 30d (1 reply)

What’s strange is the “Safety car in” message and then nope it keeps out. It was a very 50/50 chance of them being able to do 1-2 laps unfortunately

Geologist@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 30d

Apparently the rulebook says that if they let cars unlap themselves, they must wait to bring the safety car in until after the following lap, so they messed up with the timing of the unlap and left it too late.

Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 30d (1 reply)

"Are you not entertained? I thought this was what you wanted!" - Michael Masi, probably

tixooo@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 30d
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Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 4 pts · 30d (2 replies)

Antonelli the only one going Medium-Soft (presumably) is ballsy.

EDIT: ah, they were cowards, boo!

Nighed@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 30d (1 reply)

Nope hard

Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 30d

I guess it won't matter, but I would have liked to see it.

Nighed@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 30d

Everyone is just getting out of ferraris's way 😆

hsr@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 30d (1 reply)

Alonso with the Sonny Hayes strat lmao

tixooo@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 30d
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Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 3 pts · 30d (7 replies)

Why the fuck so they swap front wing in this instance when it's likely suspension damage? Bizarre hahaha

Nighed@feddit.uk · 10 pts · 30d (6 replies)

He came in so fast, they didn't know what was wrong

Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 4 pts · 30d (5 replies)

It's still so weird to me, Kimi says something fundamental is wrong and they're like "I guess we'll change front wing 🤷‍♀️". I am not an engineer or aerodynamicist but I don't understand what that would fix in this case.

birne@feddit.org · 8 pts · 30d (4 replies)

They just do it because it doesn't hurt. The car will stand there for at least a couple of seconds so why not? What if they realize after 5 seconds that it was the front wing? Better start changing it as soon as possible.

frank@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 30d

Gives a little time to do visual inspection on the front suspension too! You only have a few tools in the toolbox with a ridiculously vague problem statement so might as well try a few things to maybe not have to come back in

Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 1 pts · 30d (2 replies)

A front wing change typically adds 10-12 seconds to a pit stop.

birne@feddit.org · 2 pts · 30d (1 reply)

Yes, but how likely is it that they find and fix the unknown issue in less than 10 seconds? It's really unlikely that changing the front wing will hurt.

Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 1 pts · 30d

It looked weird to me as it looked a lot like "fuck it we don't know what's wrong, let's change the front wing and hope for the best", but in the context of wanting to do a quick inspection of the car (taking longer than a normal pitstop) I guess changing the front wing at the same time doesn't hurt yeah.

hypeerror@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 30d

oh fuck that

hypeerror@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 30d (1 reply)

It was the right call to keep Leclerc out. He's got a better chance of defending for 12 laps than catching kimi in 12.

tixooo@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 30d
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Nighed@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 30d (1 reply)

Ves is closing on ham quite fast

Nighed@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 30d

Not fast enough though unless Lewis screws up.

Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 30d (1 reply)

It's not an F1 race if Max isn't complaining about downshifts.

tixooo@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 30d
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lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 30d (3 replies)

Give us the lap 1 incident replayyyyyy. Why the delay.

tixooo@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 30d (2 replies)
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Nighed@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 30d (1 reply)

Tangled with Lawson, even McLaren don't have the replay though.

tixooo@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 30d
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Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 1 pts · 30d (5 replies)

Antonelli starting to catch Charles now slowly.

tixooo@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 30d (2 replies)
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Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 30d (1 reply)

There's a reason Toto has been keen on him since he was 12. His hype was for a reason, if anything I was surprised at the amount of people writing him off during his slump last year despite the promise he showed through junior categories.

tixooo@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 30d
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tixooo@lemmy.zip · -1 pts · 30d (1 reply)
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Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 4 pts · 30d

Well, hard to predict a catastrophic mechanical failure.

tixooo@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 30d (2 replies)
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Nighed@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 30d (1 reply)

Doesn't help they are not showing all the overtakes.

tixooo@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 30d
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TheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 30d

Lmao Ferrari engineers falling over the barrier.

tixooo@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 30d (1 reply)
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tixooo@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 30d
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tixooo@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 30d (5 replies)
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BowserBasher@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 30d (1 reply)

Seems like he’s starting on the grid in 7th. At least that’s what I just saw after the grid walk and a quick chat to him.

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tixooo@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 30d
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hypeerror@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 30d (1 reply)

They think they can get some points out of the current power unit.

tixooo@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 30d
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