Charles Leclerc added a second win for Ferrari in three races at a dramatic British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
Mercedes’ George Russell completed second and Leclerc’s team-mate Lewis Hamilton third of their residence race.
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Kimi Antonelli, who received his first dash on Saturday, ended the race in sixteenth after automotive issues, lowering his lead over Russell to 25 factors.
BBC F1 correspondent Andrew Benson solutions your newest questions after a race which completed beneath the security automotive after Max Verstappen crashed out.
Did System 1 miss a trick with the ending of the British GP? Ought to they be taking a look at what occurred in an identical scenario at this 12 months’s Indy 500? To keep away from ending behind the security automotive, they red-flagged the race to allow restoration earlier than then restarting the race and ending beneath green-flag circumstances – Matthew
That is a kind of conditions the place everybody has their very own opinion, every view has its validity, however F1 as a sport has agreed a sure strategy based mostly on the teachings of the previous.
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In a perfect world, it will be higher by way of leisure if races didn’t end beneath a security automotive. It may be argued that it’s anti-climactic.
On the similar time, it is onerous to argue that the British Grand Prix lacked drama and pleasure, however the truth that it ended beneath warning.
Take a step again, and the difficulty right here is the laws across the security automotive and its operation.
These have been constructed up over a few years and developed to the purpose that the FIA, System 1 and the groups are glad with them, whereas all the time being open to enhancements.
F1 has discovered the teachings of Abu Dhabi 2021. The context there was that it had been agreed that it was, in perfect circumstances, preferable for races to not finish beneath a security automotive.
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The issue in that race was that the race director on the time set about making an attempt to make sure the race ended beneath a inexperienced flag, considering that was the fitting factor to do, however he made a collection of errors in doing so, together with ignoring the foundations.
I’ve seen individuals say that the race director is free to function the security automotive as they need. That is a misinterpretation – they’re free to function it as they need beneath the foundations as they stand.
That is what Michael Masi acquired flawed in Abu Dhabi. The race director cannot simply make up the foundations. In any other case, why have them?
Now, sure, the race director on Sunday at Silverstone may have chosen to red-flag the race when Verstappen crashed at Stowe. Some could nicely have most popular him to.
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But when Verstappen’s incident had occurred on, say, lap 25 somewhat than lap 48, would it not have been a purple flag? Virtually definitely not.
So, why ought to it’s a purple flag with 4 laps to go simply because the race may finish beneath the security automotive?
There’s a query of sporting integrity right here. Any selection by a race director on this scenario has the potential to alter the end result.
On this case, George Russell didn’t cease for tyres, and he gained a spot because of it. Had the race been red-flagged, everybody would have been free to alter tyres, there would have been a re-start. Positions may nicely have modified once more.
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Who’s to say which of those conditions is correct or flawed, preferable or not? And even the drivers may be conflicted on this, relying on their very own private scenario.
Race-winner Charles Leclerc stated: ‘It is not nice for the followers which might be right here across the monitor. Within the helmet, I used to be form of comfortable that there was not a restart to maintain that win.”
Russell stated: “After all it is a disgrace for any race to complete beneath the security automotive. However then you definately return to Abu Dhabi ’21, and that’s simply how racing goes.
“No one can plan for any person to have an incident, and the way in which F1 cope with it and FIA cope with it should not be any completely different on the finish of the race in comparison with the beginning of the race.
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“Clearly, there was plenty of chat post-Abu Dhabi ’21. When you truly take a look at the variety of races which have completed beneath the security automotive over the previous 20 years, it isn’t truly rather a lot. So, it’s a disgrace, however what are you able to do? I do not suppose it must be completely different.”
Mercedes crew principal Toto Wolff stated: “Generally it does not give for probably the most thrilling finale. Actually from a spectacle standpoint, all people would have cherished to see Lewis (Hamilton) on a tender (tyre) towards us and perhaps combating with Leclerc. However it is a sport. Present follows sport and never the opposite means round.”
Why is it deemed essential to get lapped automobiles previous the security automotive earlier than the race resumes? Why should not they continue to be the place they had been earlier than the safety-car interval? – Johnathan
The thought behind letting lapped automobiles previous the security automotive is to make sure the race can restart with all of the automobiles of their right order, so drivers can begin racing with their direct opponents right away.
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Leaving lapped automobiles in place between different automobiles would forestall combating for positions straight after a re-start.
Now, it may be argued that it is a slight manipulation of the purity of the race, in that if there had been no security automotive, the lapped automobiles would have been negotiated anyway.
However this goes again to the earlier query. It is a algorithm which have been arrived at over a few years, and the present set-up is the one which has been determined upon as the most effective compromise at this second in time.
Do you consider that Max Verstappen is intentionally voicing his frustration clearly on crew radio and in media feedback as a preparation for pulling the performance-clause set off in his contract and leaving Pink Bull this 12 months? – Mark
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Is Verstappen sad concerning the efficiency of his Pink Bull in the mean time? Sure. He is made that completely clear. He desires to win.
Is he involved that the automotive is affected by the identical inconsistent stability issues that it has for the previous two years? Sure.
Are the feedback he makes over crew radio instantly linked to his contractual scenario? I doubt it very a lot.
Will he set off the efficiency clause in his contract that may enable him to depart Pink Bull on the finish of this season? No-one is aware of but – not even Verstappen.
Would possibly he set off his efficiency clause as a result of he is sad with the crew’s outcomes and desires to go someplace else? Sure, however that is not the identical as saying his crew radio feedback are intentionally calculated as a part of some grand technique to depart Pink Bull.
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The scenario is kind of easy; the potential final result unknown and unpredictable.
Verstappen desires to win races and championships. In the meanwhile, Pink Bull are usually not able to permit him to try this.
He has a contract till the tip of 2028, nevertheless it has efficiency clauses that can nearly definitely imply he’s free to depart on the finish of this season ought to he need to.
The set off level for these clauses, BBC Sport has been instructed, is in October. So he has loads of time to weigh up his choices and that is what he is doing.
Verstappen and/or his administration – ie, supervisor Raymond Vermeulen and father Jos Verstappen – are speaking to all potential candidate groups. That is their job. And meaning Mercedes, Ferrari and McLaren, in addition to Pink Bull.
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All of them have drivers beneath contract for subsequent 12 months, however Verstappen is Verstappen.
All groups recognise he comes with baggage, but when a crew is trying purely at competitiveness, he’s a compelling possibility who could be troublesome to show down if he was definitively .
Verstappen has loads of time to kind an opinion on the place Pink Bull are going earlier than he has to decide.
However it’s true to say that Pink Bull have some work to do to persuade him that they’re his best choice by way of competitiveness.
Pink Bull’s Isack Hadjar is eighth within the drivers’ championship with team-mate Max Verstappen seventh [Getty Images]
Have Pink Bull quietly discovered the reply in Isack Hadjar to their enduring second seat drawback? – Jodie
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Isack Hadjar is having a quietly spectacular first season with Pink Bull alongside Max Verstappen.
That is solely his second 12 months in F1 and he’s one place and 24 factors behind a four-time champion driving the identical automotive.
He has additionally stood on a podium – albeit it was taken off him in considerably controversial circumstances in Monaco after Pierre Gasly’s penalty for pit-lane dashing was overturned.
Tempo-wise, Hadjar is evaluating fairly decently with Verstappen.
The pinnacle-to-head rating in qualifying is 9-2 in periods the place a good comparability may be made, however the efficiency hole is simply 0.25secs.
That is the closest in uncooked efficiency anybody has been to Verstappen since Daniel Ricciardo in 2018.
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Workforce principal Laurent Mekies stated on Sunday of Hadjar: “He has been robust for the reason that starting of the season. He was in a position to do his personal path and to progress race after race by way of expertise and by way of abilities.
“He’s studying rather a lot from Max. He’s studying a bit extra each time he drives the automotive. And in the present day was no completely different. He isn’t going to be glad with fifth or fourth. We’re not going to be both.
“However definitely the massive image for us is that it is a step ahead each time he goes out with the automotive. That is optimistic for the remainder of the season.”
