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) 🔴
12 Comments
tomselleck@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 50d
Seems like Mercedes might have built a glass cannon.
wes@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 50d
I feel this was the breaking point for Max, not sure if we will see him race in F1 next year.
hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 50d
Bullshit Antonelli penalty and the final lap showdown rug pull. This clown show sport. 🤦
lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 50d
First half of a race was a snoozefest. Second half, quite eventful.
Reliability was the real DotD.
Leclerc win finally!!!
Unfortunate we couldn't get that last lap showdown.
HarneyToker@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 50d
Redbull gotta fix that damn wing.
Hypnotoad_@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 50d
Ferrari just have to prove to everyone that they know how to fuck up a race! Like come on, I was saying to myself "well obviously pit Leclerc but Hamilton is too close to Russell" and as soon as I finish that transmission in my brain, they... Pit Hamilton
So he can come out behind Russell. With 4 laps left on a cleanup that will take 3 laps minimum. With Russell riding on 20 lap-old tires and no threat to Hamilton at all.
Wtf guys, clown show
calamitycastle@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 50d
No way to predict it. Unfortunate but I think they made the right call. They've caught shit for deciding it the other way. Very tricky, I think Ferrari have massively improved their decision making since last season
Etnaphele@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 50d
The fact is, the one behind has always the “response” advantage in these cases: if Ham stayed out, Rus would have probably pitted. And even without pitting, he had Mediums giving an advantage on a close quarters restart. I was surprised they didn’t manage to reopen the track in 5-6 laps, as the crane was already carrying the RB after 1 lap…
placebo@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 50d
magnue@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 50d
I guess they were assuming the race would get going with 2-3 laps to go and in that scenario it's nearly a sure thing that the Merc should pass Lewis.
Still though I think with the amount of variables it seemed to me leaving him out was the best call. I also think putting Russel to 2nd then jeopardizes 1st place potentially, leaving Lewis 2nd would have made that quite certain.
Etnaphele@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 50d
I’m also not sure if they thought they would come out ahead of Russell: I am always very confused by these “speed delta” (my ignorance probably) but they had 12-13s advantage and the run through was shown to be 10s, so it turns out correct with a 3s stop I guess
calamitycastle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 50d
Speed delta would be much more important in the virtual safety car, where in theory the gap between cars is maintained.
With full safety cars I think they do have a maximum speed and other rules but clearly it's not the same for everyone since they always bunch up
bananabread@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 50d
This weekend was tough to watch.