On Sunday in Silverstone there was a feeling that we weren’t just saying farewell or maybe au revoir to the Home of British Motorsport, but to Formula One as we’ve known it for the past 30 years.
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Mark Webber reckons his chance of a maiden victory at Silverstone was taken from him in qualifying but claimed he had done the maximum possible to carve out another one-two.
Sebastian Vettel claimed his second victory of the season with a dominant lights-to-flag display at Silverstone and went on to hail the circuit as “fantastic” and the kind of venue where he has always dreamed of racing.
Red Bull Racing senior personnel dubbed today’s one-two result a “dream result” for the team, whose factory is a stone’s throw from Silverstone at Milton Keynes.
When the flag falls at the end of the British Grand Prix, Formula One will enter one of its brief periods of respite: a three-week gap until the next race, the German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring.
Mark Webber slammed Kimi Raikkonen for ruining a possible pole-winning final qualifying lap at Silverstone this afternoon, wondering whether the Finn had been “drinking some vodka”.