Massive crash for Hartley; Stroll annoys England fans
Brendon Hartley walked away from a huge crash in final practice for the British GP, lucky that his STR13 didn’t flip as he hurtled through the gravel after a suspension failure.
Look who’s back, back again…
.@RGrosjean keen to make up for losing all of Friday’s #FP2 to a chassis change. Gets his #FP3 program running now on the soft rubber. #HaasF1 #BritishGP pic.twitter.com/ik0v1EMalj
— Haas F1 Team (@HaasF1Team) July 7, 2018
McLaren’s new powers-that-be, Gil de Ferran and Andrea Stella, watch on from the pit wall as Stoffel Vandoorne put in the first lap of the session but did so extremely slowly. Perhaps a data run given the flo-vis all over his MCL33.
Club corner got a minor addition overnight to stop the drivers running wide.
👀 New kerb at Club (Turn 18)
Drivers were running wide here yesterday – not so today#BritishGP 🇬🇧 #F1 pic.twitter.com/ixSyaNizkx
— Formula 1 (@F1) July 7, 2018
Nico Hulkenberg is one of several drivers running new engine parts this weekend after his Renault power unit failed at the Austrian GP. Fernando Alonso took a new engine prior to FP3.
Brendon Hartley’s day started as per normal…
It didn’t end that way…
🚩RED FLAG🚩
A big impact for @BrendonHartley at Turn 6 #BritishGP 🇬🇧 #F1 pic.twitter.com/pLZJ8cfZfO
— Formula 1 (@F1) July 7, 2018
The start of the incident as his suspension broke…
The footage…
Brendon Hartley’s season of bad luck continues. A dramatic suspension failure causing a huge crash. Fortunately he’s ok. Not so much his car. pic.twitter.com/itERyO5zMM
— Andrew Sorrill▶️ (@AndrewsView) July 7, 2018
Sebastian Vettel followed up his Friday P1 with a fourth placed finish. He did just 8 laps.
Lewis Hamilton, and his gold helmet, topped the timesheet with a 1:26.722, 0.09s up on Kimi Raikkonen’s best.
Shortly before qualifying started, Toro Rosso confirmed Brendon Hartley would not be able to compete. He is ok, but the car isn’t…
Going to be a tough qualifying coming up with just 4 laps under the belt in final practice for Pierre.
Unfortunately due to the tight turnaround between sessions, we won’t be able to prepare @brendon_hartley’s car in time for qualifying #F1 #BritishGP pic.twitter.com/p2mcxXL1ti
— Toro Rosso (@ToroRosso) July 7, 2018
It also emerged that Vettel’s limited running in FP3 was due to a strained neck. He was fit enough to take part in qualifying, though.
Q1 was red flagged after just a few minutes as Lance Stroll crashed out at Brooklands. The delay meant qualifying would over-run into England’s huge World Cup clash against Sweden.
It was yet another Q1 session to forget for Williams as Sergey Sirotkin joined Stroll in the gravel trap moments later. He was also placed under investigation for not returning to the pit lane in red flag conditions.
More Q1 problems for @WilliamsRacing @sirotkin_sergey comes off at Stowe but has managed to limp back to the pits #BritishGP 🇬🇧 #F1 pic.twitter.com/Xn9yUba3Lh
— Formula 1 (@F1) July 7, 2018
Joining Stroll and Sirotkin out of Q1 were Stoffel Vandoorne and Carlos Sainz, the latter saying that he was caught in traffic.
Heading into Q3, Hamilton was the man to beat – but only a tenth separated himself and Vettel.
Out in Q2: Hulkenberg, Perez, Alonso, Gasly, Ericsson.
Charles Leclerc is into Q3 again! #F1 pic.twitter.com/sLjF0dJ6Qk
— Planet F1 (@Planet_F1) July 7, 2018
Vettel silenced the home crowd after putting himself on provisional pole with a 1:25.936 – 0.057 seconds quicker than Hamilton.
But Hamilton engaged ‘Hammer Time’, pipping Vettel by 0.44 seconds with Raikkonen only 0.098 seconds away himself!
Hammer time! Pole for Lewis Hamilton!
It's his fourth pole in a row at Silverstone and 50th for Mercedes!#BritishGP 🇬🇧 #F1 pic.twitter.com/n77mv0Z1th
— Planet F1 (@Planet_F1) July 7, 2018
