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2023 British GP Preview – After Max Verstappen scored his 42nd-career victory at the Austrian GP to extend his championship lead to 81 points over Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez, round 11 of the 2023 FIA Formula One World Championship returns to the fast and historic Silverstone Circuit this weekend for the Formula 1 Aramco British Grand Prix 2023. This marks the 77th running of the British Grand Prix, the 74th time as part of a World Championship event and the 58th time that the British Grand Prix has been held at Silverstone.
2023 British GP Preview – A look at the Silverstone Circuit
Silverstone Circuit is a permanent racing circuit in England next to the Northamptonshire Villages of Silverstone and Whittlebury. The circuit sits on the Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire border, with the current main circuit entry on the Buckinghamshire side. The Northamptonshire towns of Towcester, Brackley and Buckinghamshire town of Buckingham are close by, and the nearest large towns are Northampton and Milton Keynes.
Silverstone is the current home of the British Grand Prix, which it first hosted in 1948. The 1950 British Grand Prix at Silverstone was the first race in the newly created Formula One World Championship. The race rotated between Silverstone, Aintree and Brands Hatch from 1955 to 1986, but relocated permanently to Silverstone in 1987.
The circuit is built on the site of a World War II Royal Air Force bomber station, RAF Silverstone which opened in 1943. The airfield’s three runways in classic WWII triangle format lie within the outline of the current track.
Giuseppe Farina was the inaugural winner of the British Grand Prix which was the first round of the championship in 1950 when the Formula One World Championship was formed and was also the first driver to win the inaugural Formula One World Championship with Alfa Romeo.
The circuit layout has changed many times throughout its history on the Formula One calendar with the current front straight featuring the Silverstone Wing pit building which is located in between Club and Abbey Corner has been used since 2011. The current front straight was also used in 2010 while the Silverstone Wing building was being built but the front straight was located at the old pit straight in between Luffield, Woodcote and Copse corner.
The current Arena Grand Prix Circuit layout currently being used runs in a clockwise direction and is 5.891km (3.661mi) in length and has 18 corners.
Race distance is 306.198km (190.163 mi) with 52 laps in total.
Max Verstappen holds the fastest lap record of the current circuit layout set last at last year’s event with a 1:27.097 in his Red Bull Racing-Honda RB16.
Seven-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton has the most British Grand Prix victories with eight to his name.
Scuderia Ferrari are the most successful Constructor at the British Grand Prix with 17 victories.
2023 British GP Preview – A lap of the Silverstone Circuit
The start of the track begins between Club and Abbey corner. Almost flat out, the right-hander of Abbey leads immediately into the left-hander of Farm before cars heavily brake into the second gear, right-handed turn 3 Village corner. The even slower left-hander of The Loop comes immediately after, and leads into the flat-out left-hander of Aintree, before cars head down the first DRS zone of the Wellington Straight, designed in 2010 to promote overtaking. Turn 6, the left hander of Brooklands, is taken by drivers in second gear and leads immediately into Luffield, another second gear curve; a right-hand hairpin. The right-handed kink of Woodcote leads cars down the old pit straight, before the difficult sixth gear right hand Copse corner, with a minimum speed of 281 kph in the dry for Formula One cars.
Then, the equally tricky complex of Maggotts, Becketts and Chapel – a left-right-left-right-left complex with a minimum speed of 209 kph, leads cars down the Hangar Straight with the fifth gear right-hander of Stowe lurking at the end. The fifteenth turn of the track, Stowe, has a minimum speed of 201 kph and precedes a short straight, named Vale, which leads cars downhill towards the Club complex. Heavy braking is required for the left-hander of turn 16, and understeer can be an issue for the next right-handers of turns 17 and 18, as cars tentatively accelerate round to the start-finish straight. You can watch Carlos Sainz’ pole position lap from last season’s British Grand Prix Qualifying session of a 1:40.893. in his Scuderia Ferrari F1-75 racer at the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkkZOH-KqNw
2023 British GP Preview – The Last Five Winners
2022: Carlos Sainz, Scuderia Ferrari. 2021: Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes AMG F1. 2020: Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes AMG F1. 2019: Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes AMG F1. 2018: Sebastian Vettel, Scuderia Ferrari.
2023 British GP Preview – Tyres
Pirelli will be bringing with them to Silverstone, the white side-walled C1 Hard tyres along with the yellow-branded C2 Medium compounds and the red-marked C3 Soft rubber as well as the Intermediate (green) and Wet (blue) compounds to the event in case of rain.
All drivers will have the same allocation of tyres, eight sets of the softs, three of the mediums and two of the hards.
Pirelli will be debuting this weekend it’s new tyre specification on a circuit that is well-known for putting high lateral energy loads through the rubber, as the result of many fast corners at Silverstone. This new construction, tried out by the teams at the Spanish Grand Prix, is more resistant to fatigue thanks to the introduction of an already-homologated material originally planned for next season, but is otherwise exactly the same as the specification that was used up to last weekend’s Austrian GP.
2023 British GP Preview – DRS Zones
There will be two DRS Zones at Silverstone. The first detection point is 25 metres before turn three (Village) with the activation point 30 metres after turn five (Aintree) on the Wellington Straight. The second detection point is at turn 11 (Maggots) with the activation point 55 metres after the exit turn 14 (Chapel).
2023 British GP Preview – Pitlane Speed Limits
Pitlane speeds will be 80km/h during practice, qualifying and the race.
ICYMI: Verstappen clinches 42nd-career victory at the Austrian GP
Max Verstappen scored his 42nd-career victory at the Austrian GP and ahead of Charles Leclerc who came home second for Ferrari and Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez who recovered to finish third.
When the 71-lap Austrian GP began, pole-sitter Verstappen got a brilliant getaway into turn one, with Leclerc getting a solid slip-stream and went to the outside of the Dutchman into turn two but could not get through.
Behind them Sainz came under pressure from Hamilton in the battle for third but kept his position.
The safety car was deployed for the debris to be cleared following the opening lap collision between Yuki Tsunoda’s AlphaTauri after jumping over the turn one kerb, hitting the right-hand side of Esteban Ocon’s A523 racer into turn one with the former damaging his front wing.
Tsunoda ended up in the gravel at turn four but managed to get going and make his way to the pits for a new front wing.
When the race returned to green on lap four, Verstappen made a comfortable lead and was over 1.275 seconds clear ahead of Leclerc with Sainz third, Hamilton fourth and McLaren’s Lando Norris completing the top five.
The FIA stewards declared that there was no further action for the incident at turn one.
On lap eight, in the fight for second place, Sainz was up close to the rear of Ferrari team-mate Leclerc as they pushed clear from Hamilton.
On the 10th tour, Perez made his way passed the Mercedes of George Russell on the inside of the F1 W14 into turn three to take 11th place.
On lap 12, Perez on his recovery push dived on the inside of Williams Racing’s Alexander Albon into turn three to take ninth place.
Lap 14 saw Haas F1 Team’s Nico Hulkenberg pulled off the track at turn 19 due to a loss of power and the virtual safety car was deployed.
On the 15th tour, Hamilton and Norris both made the jump into the pits for a fresh set of hards and emerged in seventh and eighth respectively.
The following lap saw both Ferrari’s pitted with Leclerc and Sainz both stopping for a set of mediums and the former emerged in second and Sainz behind Hamilton and Norris in sixth place.
The VSC ended on lap 16 and Perez found his way up into third after his rivals around him pitted.
On lap 17, Hamilton was hit with a five-second timed penalty for exceeding track limits whilst Sainz made a move on the inside of Norris’s McLaren to take fifth place.
On the 19th tour, Sainz gets passed Hamilton to move up into fourth, diving up the inside of the Briton at turn 3, which triggered a drag race to the fourth corner, and the Spaniard goes around the outside of the Mercedes to make it stick.
As the race reached lap 20, the yet-to-pit race leader Verstappen was 15.814 seconds clear of Leclerc with Perez third, Hamilton fourth and Norris rounding out the top five.
On lap 21, Sainz also made his way ahead of Perez to take third off the Red Bull.
Lap 25 saw race leader Verstappen pit from the lead for a fresh set of hards as Leclerc claimed P1 off the Dutchman and emerged behind Sainz in third.
Perez followed suit to stop on lap 26 for a set of mediums and came out in 11th behind Ocon meanwhile Verstappen was right on the tail of Sainz in the battle for second and got ahead of the Ferrari out of turn three and into turn four and was sitting six seconds behind Leclerc.
On the 28th tour, Hamilton reported a brake issue, but had no defence as Norris jumped up the inside of the Mercedes into turn four to take fourth place off his fellow British-compatriot.
Lap 29 saw Sainz also slapped with a five-second time penalty for exceeding track limits.
On lap 30, Leclerc was 3.353 seconds ahead of Verstappen as the gap was decreasing with Sainz third, Norris fourth and Hamilton rounding out the top five.
The 34th tour saw Verstappen rapidly eating into Leclerc’s lead with the gap down to 0.508 seconds in the battle for first place.
Lap 35, Verstappen reclaimed the lead with DRS and by diving on the inside of Leclerc into turn three for the run out of turn four to blast clear.
By the 36th lap, Verstappen was already 2.435 seconds in-front of Leclerc with Sainz third, Norris fourth and Hamilton completing the top five.
As the lead changed, Perez was up into seventh place, overtaking Pierre Gasly’s Alpine.
With 31 laps remaining, Verstappen was 6.299 seconds ahead of Leclerc with Sainz a further 11.295 seconds down the road in third, Norris fourth and Hamilton fifth.
On the 42nd tour, Norris pitted from fourth for a set of hards and emerged in eighth behind Gasly.
Hamilton followed suit on lap 43 to pit for a set of mediums, also serving his five-second time penalty and emerged in eighth place behind Norris.
On the 46th lap, Sainz pitted from third to serve his five-second penalty and take on a fresh set of hards and came out behind Norris in fifth place.
Sainz tucked right behind Norris on the rundown into turn four and made a move on the outside of the MCL60 and passed the Briton into the sweeping left-hand turn five to reclaim fourth.
Leclerc stopped on lap 48 for a fresh set of hards and emerged in third behind Perez.
On the 50th tour, race leader Verstappen pitted for a fresh set of mediums and came out comfortable 5.8 seconds clear of team-mate Perez.
Perez stopped a lap later for a set of hards and emerged in fifth place to chase down Norris and the two Ferrari’s until the end of the Grand Prix.
On lap 55, Verstappen increased his gap to 16.868 over second-placed Leclerc with Sainz third, Norris fourth and Perez hunting down the McLaren in fifth.
On the 56th tour, Perez made his way by Norris’s MCL60 racer on the inside into turn four to grab fourth place.
The following tour, Perez’s next target was third-placed Sainz, and the former had a look on the rundown into turn four, but the Ferrari covered the Mexican’s tracks.
Lap 59, Perez was much closer to the SF-23 and made his move on the outside of Sainz into turn three, but the Spaniard covered the Red Bull. Perez tried to perform the switchback on Sainz out of turn 3, but the Ferrari driver was lucky to gain DRS off the lapped Magnussen to keep Perez at bay.
On lap 62, Perez finally made the move on Sainz, the former remained behind at the DRS line into turn three and that gave the Red Bull driver DRS assistance on the straight into turn four and flew past into the final podium place.
With seven laps left, Verstappen was over a pit-stop clear in the lead over Leclerc with Perez now in third, Sainz fourth and Norris completing the top five.
Verstappen pitted with two tours remaining for a fresh set of softs to push for the bonus fastest lap point and came out 3.723 seconds ahead of Leclerc.
Verstappen crossed the line to claim victory at the Austrian GP to extend his championship lead to 81 points and 5.155 seconds ahead of Leclerc who came home second to give the Scuderia it’s 800th podium in Formula 1 and Perez took the final podium place after a solid recovery drive.
The other Ferrari SF-23 entry of Sainz finished fourth and in-front of Norris who was fifth, Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso who ended the Grand Prix sixth and the two Mercedes of Hamilton and George Russell who were seventh and eighth respectively.
Alpine’s Gasly and Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll completed the top ten.
Williams Racing’s Albon and Logan Sargeant came home in 11th and 13th respectively with Ocon splitting the pairing in 12th place.
Alfa Romeo’s Zhou Guanyu and Valtteri Bottas finished in 14th and 16th with AlphaTauri’s Nyck de Vries sandwiched in-between the C43’s in 15th.
McLaren’s Oscar Piastri was 17th and in-front of Tsunoda and Haas F1 Team’s Kevin Magnussen who brought up the rear.
2023 British GP Preview – The Situation
Formula 1 returns to Silverstone this weekend for the British Grand Prix with the chasing field looking to end Max Verstappen’s run of five consecutive victories.
Verstappen produced another stunning drive to win both the Sprint and Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring last time out, with his points lead over 81 points to Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez.
Red Bull have won all nine Grands Prix this campaign but faces a big challenge to keep going at a race, which they have failed to win for the past decade.
A potentially resurging Ferrari and a Mercedes outfit will be looking to spoil the Bulls’ party with it’s new upgrades planned at Silverstone, whilst Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso continues to push for his 33rd victory.
Mercedes pairing Sir Lewis Hamilton and George Russell will be buzzing for their amazing home crowd support, meanwhile McLaren’s Lando Norris will also be looking to build on an impressive fourth-placed finish last time out in Austria at his home Grand Prix in-front of the British faithful.
Max Verstappen returns to Silverstone on top of the World Driver’s Championship with 229 points and an 81-points lead over Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez who is second on 148 points whilst Fernando Alonso is a further 98 points behind the Dutchman in third on 131 points.
Oracle Red Bull Racing comes to Great Britain on top of the World Constructor’s Championship with 377 points and a 199-point advantage over nearest rival Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport Formula 1 Team who are second on 178 points whilst Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant F1 Team is third and are a further 202 points behind the Milton Keynes based-outfit on 175 points.
Click here for the 2023 Formula 1 World Driver’s (Top 10) and Constructors Championship Standings
2023 British GP Preview – Formula 1 Releases 2024 Calendar
Formula 1 has released the calendar for the 2024 FIA Formula One World Championship season, approved by the World Motor Sport Council. The calendar features a record-breaking 24 Grands Prix and begins with the season-opening Bahrain GP on March 2 and concludes with the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on December 8.
Formula One has made it clear that it’s intention was to regionalise the calendar as much as possible, reducing logistical burdens and making the season more sustainable.
By moving the Japanese GP to April, Azerbaijan to September and the Qatar Grand Prix back-to-back with Abu Dhabi, the calendar creates a better flow of Grands Prix in certain regions, and this will work whilst continuing to be realistic to the fact that it is a world championship, with climatic and contractual constraints, there will always be travel required, which cannot be completely regionalised.
For the opening two races on the calendar, both Bahrain and the Saudi Arabian GP’s will be held on Saturdays with the decision being taken to accommodate Ramadan.
The 2024 FIA Formula One World Championship Calendar
| Date | Grand Prix | Venue |
| February 29 – March 2 | Bahrain Grand Prix | Sakhir |
| March 7-9 | Saudi Arabian Grand Prix | Jeddah |
| March 22-24 | Australian Grand Prix | Melbourne |
| April 5-7 | Japanese Grand Prix | Suzuka |
| April 19-21 | Chinese Grand Prix | Shanghai |
| May 3-5 | Miami Grand Prix | Miami |
| May 17-19 | Emilia Romagna Grand Prix | Imola |
| May 24-26 | Monaco Grand Prix | Monaco |
| June 7-9 | Canadian Grand Prix | Montreal |
| June 21-23 | Spanish Grand Prix | Barcelona |
| June 28-30 | Austrian Grand Prix | Spielberg |
| July 5-7 | British Grand Prix | Silverstone |
| July 19-21 | Hungarian Grand Prix | Budapest |
| July 26-28 | Belgian Grand Prix | Spa |
| August 23-25 | Dutch Grand Prix | Zandvoort |
| August 30 – September 1 | Italian Grand Prix | Monza |
| September 13-15 | Azerbaijan Grand Prix | Baku |
| September 20-22 | Singapore Grand Prix | Singapore |
| October 18-20 | US Grand Prix | Austin |
| October 25-27 | Mexican Grand Prix | Mexico City |
| November 1-3 | Brazilian Grand Prix | Sao Paulo |
| November 21-23 | Las Vegas Grand Prix | Las Vegas |
| November 29 – December 1 | Qatar Grand Prix | Lusail |
| December 6-8 | Abu Dhabi Grand Prix | Yas Marina |
President and CEO of Formula One, Stefano Domenicali speaking on the 2024 FIA Formula One World Championship calendar stated: “I am delighted to announce the 2024 calendar with 24 races that will deliver an exciting season for our fans around the world. There is huge interest and continued demand for Formula 1, and I believe this calendar strikes the right balance between traditional races and new and existing venues,”
“I want to thank all of the promoters and partners for their support and effort to achieve this great schedule. Our journey to a more sustainable calendar will continue in the coming years as we further streamline operations as part of our Net Zero 2030 commitment. We have plenty of racing to look forward to in 2023, including the inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix, and our fans can look forward to more excitement next season.” Domenicali concluded. Credit to F1 for the quote.
The Formula 1 Aramco British Grand Prix 2023 weekend begins Friday July 5 with Free Practice 1 and 2, followed by Free Practice 3 and Qualifying Saturday July 6 along with the 52 lap Race Sunday July 7.
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