British Grand Prix
 

Next Sunday is THE home grand prix for all the British domiciled teams including Williams - the ENGLISH team, Mclaren, Red Bull and Brawn-Illmor - aka: Mercedes.

It will follow on from the world cup final - hopefully won by the Netherlands.

I think that Vettel has recovered well and will once again win - he KNOWS he can do it after his exquisite domination drive in 2009.

Mclaren is due to have its new kit on the cars and both Jense and Lewis will be fired up. CAN Jenson outqualify Lewis at this race - I think Hamilton has the "one tenth" advantage here but if teh car feels completely right to Jense, he will be able to do it.

Exciting that the new Arena section will be used and this could make it the fastest lap in f1.

The Ferraris were caught out at Valencia and have to be right up there - although historically British GP officialdom and Ferrari have not exactly seen eye to eye.

The British GP is like Monaco inthat everyone wants to have a win there on his resume.

I do not expect the Nigel Mansell thrill that will in my view never be beaten - Nigel was just special and none of the British drivers have that nowadays - "I was prepared to die in order to win"!

Nigel loved the fans, meant what he said and the fans loved him back http://www.motorsportforums.com/imag...es/biggrin.gif

But the British Grand Prix is always a thrill and I am sure all veteran fans - have a special place for it in their souls.

Definitely looking forward to seeing what the changes to the layout with the new Areana section have to offer. Hopefully the addition of the big stops into Village and the revised Brooklands corner will help make the track more racey. I've always like the track because it was one of the few true high speed circuits on the calendar but those sustained high speeds sometimes conspire to make passing very difficult.

Arguably Silverstone and the British Grand Prix is the oldest World Championship event on the calendar seeing as it was the location of the first. I am however a little disappointed that more doesn't seem to be being made of this what with it being the 60th anniversary of the founding of the World Championship. Still its going to be a stonking event. The sun is going to shine and we get to see F1 cars really stretching their legs through some of the best corners on the calendar.

Webber getting Vettel's damaged chassis. That will do him no favours.

Well crashing into the back of Kovalainen did him no favours either...

Obviously..

Red Bull are certain that the problems with the rejected chassis were down to damage and are now fixed. Still, nice for Mark to know that he'll be driving Seb's hand-me-downs!

Jeeezusss,
Is this a situation where they simply do not have another available (which I find highly unlikely), and not the time to fully construct another. Or has Dietrich Mateschitz suddenly become frugal? http://www.motorsportforums.com/imag...s/confused.gif

Unless he beats Vettel in it, in which case it will do Vettel no favours!

What's her name ?

From now?

Sheila?

A couple of years and he will grow into it.......

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Silverstone should at least in theory be one of the strongest circuits for RBR, so they need a 1-2 to avoid McLaren securing a comfortable position in the battle for WCC. The British GP will also be quite a defining weekend for Ferrari - how much have they managed to solve their aero-problems? And of course - Lotus. Their last huge upgrade of the season. Can they beat a car from an established team on merit?http://www.motorsportforums.com/imag...es/biggrin.gif I'm also looking forward to see Kobayashi getting into Q3 considering, which circuits seem to suit this year's Sauber based on car characteristics.

Shrink into it, surely? http://www.motorsportforums.com/imag...ies/tongue.gif

There is no point in RBR undermining Webber. He is already signed for another season and could be a deciding factor in the championship so upsetting him is not in anyone's interests unless you are Mclaren or Ferrari.

So the chassis is in good nick and returning to the track to ensure Mateschitz's main goal of the Constructors championship is achieved.

1 Felipe
2 Seb
3 Robert

A result I would like. Massa needs on up on Alonso now.

Robert is scoring all of Renualts points, I would like if they finish above Mercedes in the WCC.

If there's one thing we'll miss, it'll be Bernie looking for excuses to threaten to pull Silverstone off the calendar cos this time next year when all the shiny new facilities are completed, he will have no excuses http://www.motorsportforums.com/imag...es/biggrin.gif

Aside from that though, it should be a cracking weekend's racing hopefully ending with a British winner.

I think that's pretty likely, whether it's Hamilton, Button, Horner/Newey, Ross Brawn, Frank Williams, Rob Smedley or Bob Bell & Alan Permane http://www.motorsportforums.com/imag...es/biggrin.gif Just need to find someone in Fernando's camp to wave the flag for and we'll have all the bases covered http://www.motorsportforums.com/imag...lies/smile.gif

I'll think that you'll find that it was actually Heikki stupidly braking so that he could get round a corner that caused that accident. If only he'd had the sense to plough straight on into a wall then Webber would have got through cleanly.

Mia have you been reading my mind? I have had a premonition that Massa would win this race. But as a, general rule I don't follow my premonitions any more. I lost too much money in Vegas following them. Realistically I think the podium will be Seb-Boss-Fred!
And now that I jinxed that outcome all bets are off! http://www.motorsportforums.com/imag.../rollsmile.gif http://www.motorsportforums.com/imag...ies/smokin.gif