The British Grand Prix is a race in the calendar of the FIA Formula One World Championship. It is currently held at the Silverstone Circuit near the village of Silverstone in Northamptonshire. The British and Italian Grands Prix are the oldest continuously staged Formula One World Championship Grands Prix.
This year’s qualifying of the British Grand Prix was more as a gamble thanks to weather conditions. The teams weather forecasts were expecting rain during the final session, so everyone made sure that they got out quickly in order to set a fast time before it started to rain again.
Sebastian Vettel, once again, was the man to beat, setting a provisional pole. But this was not to last as his team mate, Mark Webber, recorded a fastest lap just seconds later beating Vettel by just 0.032 seconds.
With the front row occupied by the Red Bull, behind were the two Ferraris. Third place went to Fernando Alonso, who was just 0.1 seconds slower than Vettel and fourth to Felipe Massa, with the Scuderia obviously very happy with the progress they have made.
On the fifth place was Jenson Button’s McLaren, but his team mate Lewis Hamilton couldn’t manage anything better than 10th place in his home Grand Prix.
The performance of Paul di Resta was the surprise of the day.He, in his rookie period, brought his Force India to the sixth place of the grid.
Source: Carscoop
