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) 🔴
38 Comments
Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 16 pts · 77d
Antonelli saying he can still fight for a point is some real black knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail energy.
tixooo@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 77d
mamg22@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 77d
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 · 77d
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 · 77d
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 · 77d
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 · 77d
I'd still make the same call now, I think
Bademantel@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 77d
No restart? What a disappointment.
Etnaphele@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 77d
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 · 77d
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 · 77d
"Are you not entertained? I thought this was what you wanted!" - Michael Masi, probably
tixooo@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 77d
Etnaphele@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 77d
How do they do it? How do they always ruin it one way or another? FIA must only hire patented idiots looks like
hsr@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 77d
Alonso with the Sonny Hayes strat lmao
tixooo@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 77d
Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 4 pts · 77d
Antonelli the only one going Medium-Soft (presumably) is ballsy.
EDIT: ah, they were cowards, boo!
Nighed@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 77d
Nope hard
Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 77d
I guess it won't matter, but I would have liked to see it.
Nighed@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 77d
Everyone is just getting out of ferraris's way 😆
Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 3 pts · 77d
Why the fuck so they swap front wing in this instance when it's likely suspension damage? Bizarre hahaha
Nighed@feddit.uk · 10 pts · 77d
He came in so fast, they didn't know what was wrong
Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 4 pts · 77d
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 · 77d
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 · 77d
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 · 77d
A front wing change typically adds 10-12 seconds to a pit stop.
birne@feddit.org · 2 pts · 77d
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 · 77d
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.
Nighed@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 77d
Ves is closing on ham quite fast
Nighed@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 77d
Not fast enough though unless Lewis screws up.
hypeerror@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 77d
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 · 77d
hypeerror@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 77d
oh fuck that
lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 77d
Give us the lap 1 incident replayyyyyy. Why the delay.
tixooo@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 77d
Nighed@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 77d
Tangled with Lawson, even McLaren don't have the replay though.
tixooo@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 77d
Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 77d
It's not an F1 race if Max isn't complaining about downshifts.
tixooo@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 77d
Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 1 pts · 77d
Antonelli starting to catch Charles now slowly.
tixooo@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 77d
Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 77d
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 · 77d
tixooo@lemmy.zip · -1 pts · 77d
Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 4 pts · 77d
Well, hard to predict a catastrophic mechanical failure.
TheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 77d
Lmao Ferrari engineers falling over the barrier.
tixooo@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 77d
tixooo@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 77d
tixooo@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 77d
Nighed@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 77d
Doesn't help they are not showing all the overtakes.
tixooo@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 77d
tixooo@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 77d
BowserBasher@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 77d
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.
tixooo@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 77d
tixooo@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 77d
hypeerror@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 77d
They think they can get some points out of the current power unit.
tixooo@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 77d