well its that time of year again for Silverstone to host the F1

Anyone going ? , I have family camping at whittlebury park for all 3 days, they must be mad
Nice to have a britsh champion going into this race and so want button to do something but alas it seams his career is wilting at moment






Great Britain Past Winners
Year Driver Team Grid Time
2014 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 6 2:26:52.094
2013 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 2 1:32:59.456
2012 Mark Webber Red Bull 2 1:25:11.288
2011 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 3 1:28:41.199
2010 Mark Webber Red Bull 2 1:24:38.200
2009 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull 1 1:22:49.328
2008 Lewis Hamilton McLaren 4 1:39:09.440
2007 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 2 1:21:43.074
2006 Fernando Alonso Renault 1 1:25:51.927
2005 Juan Pablo Montoya McLaren 3 1:24:29.588





Great Britain Past Winners
Year Driver Team Grid Time
2014 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 6 2:26:52.094
2013 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 2 1:32:59.456
2012 Mark Webber Red Bull 2 1:25:11.288
2011 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 3 1:28:41.199
2010 Mark Webber Red Bull 2 1:24:38.200
2009 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull 1 1:22:49.328
2008 Lewis Hamilton McLaren 4 1:39:09.440
2007 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 2 1:21:43.074
2006 Fernando Alonso Renault 1 1:25:51.927
2005 Juan Pablo Montoya McLaren 3 1:24:29.588

Driver Pts
1. L. Hamilton 169
2. N. Rosberg 159
3. S. Vettel 120
4. K. Raikkonen 72
5. V. Bottas 67
6. F. Massa 62
7. D. Ricciardo 36
8. D. Kvyat 19
9. N. Hulkenberg 18
10. R. Grosjean 17
11. F. Nasr 16
12. S. Perez 13
13. P. Maldonado 12
14. M. Verstappen 10
15. C. Sainz Jr 9
16. M. Ericsson 5
17. J. Button 4
18. F. Alonso 0
19. W. Stevens 0
20. R. Merhi

Team Pts
1 Mercedes 328
2 Ferrari 192
3 Williams 129
4 Red Bull 55
5 Force India 31
6 Lotus 29
7 Sauber 21
8 Toro Rosso 19
9 McLaren 4
10 Manor Marussia 0

 

Love it when F1 comes home, the crowds are amazing. However I do prefer the old circuit.

I'll be watching as usual.

 

I was told campsite is fully booked and they are expecting 140,000 plus on race day

 

Would love to go but went to good wood last week which I think is probably better due to the mix of everything there.
Hope Hamilton wins but I'm thinking his head is not fully into it at the moment he didn't bother testing this week even he seems to be partying all the time! Fingers crossed! Button I'm sure still has a good fight in him but the car is rubbish, he deserves a better car. Good luck to both!

 

I'm heading down tomorrow morning, camping from thurs to Monday.

 

if weather stays this warm then camping will be brilliant for you guys

 

We're going on Sunday. Only 45 minutes away from home and my boss lives in Silverstone village so parking at his.

 

I went last year all weekend had a free ticket, it was an awesome weekend camping! My mates heading down today! I would of gone but bit too epensive for me I like f1 but not that much!

 

fingers crossed lads for a british winner

 

Hamilton off the pace today complaining about balance ferraris ahead of him too, hope he gets it together and Sunday.

 

yeah for sure and a bit of rain overnight will help qualy

 

God dam it! Religion really does ruin everything, Got a christening to attend sunday at 1pm!


real tears


Hope this nonsense dont take too long, so i can catch the rest of the race

 

 

Fingers crossed for Lewis.

 

thats a pole for lewis and rosberg right up next to him!

massa nicely in 3rd too

 

Pole for Lewis!

 

Nice to see Hammy on pole

 

Fingers crossed for Hammy. I think Silverstone is the best F1 track.

 

was woken up this morning by family up at silverstone telling me they was just going to bed (4,45) ffs, as its been like a carnival all night on the campsite

 

great grand prix so far

 

Ha ha there hardcore.

 

That was a great race, good shout by Hamilton to pit for inters. Shame Williams didn't finish on the podium.

 

Well done Hammy

 

Great race. even tho I had to watch most of it in silence.!

 

Great race!

 

Good lad. He will be well happy.

 

Pissed me off at the start.

Bernie the little blood sucker couldn't even be arsed to get his guests to line up and chatted at the start of the national anthem. I found that a bit offensive.

But definitely the best race of the season so far!

Didn't realise that a married couple were bosses of two different teams!

 

And how bad was Niko behaving?
Silver spoon little cunt.

 

shes a shit hot driver too but she is only the test driver not the boss

 

Was a great race

 

Ah right. Just googled.

The way the interview went wit Toto and then showed a clip of "his wife" when Williams got the great start she looked like that lass who is the team boss. And that's how I read it with the whole"conflict of interest" stuff as well.

A really good race though.

Anyone see the doc before about Niki Lauda (sp?) and James Hunt? I thought the film Rush was typical Hollywood exaggerated screen writing but that doc showed that battle between them in exactly the same way. Just with interviews.

"Niki, your the only
Person I know that's been on fire and come out the other side better looking" lol.

 

We had a great spot at Farm curve / Village corner. Saw Crashtornado take out Grosjean and Alonso wipe Button out as well and Verstappen get it all wrong right in front.

The noise and atmosphere with the crowd made it for us - amazing day out with the best finish with Hamilton winning after a great race.

And that Typhoon.. Mental.

Driver parade by DAL3D, on Flickr

typhoon3 by DAL3D, on Flickr

Going ballistic:
typhoon2 by DAL3D, on Flickr

Red Devils:
RedDevils by DAL3D, on Flickr

Start Video:
Silverstone F1 2015 Start Village Corner by DAL3D, on Flickr

 

Dal, was it an eventful day?

You show the Red Devils, who are ace to see. Was there more stuff for people to see? I can imagine it's a long old weekend without stands or displays?

 

Was an awesome day. My boss lives in Silverstone village so parking was easy and free and only 45 mins from home

There's lots to do and see - 3 support races before the F1 race today, VR rides, exhibitions on historic F1, driver Q&A, concert afterwards, various qualifications and races all weekend to etc, etc.

For Ł99 a ticket it's certainly much better value than the up to Ł400 a ticket for some grandstands although still not cheap. We did a Motorsport Vision race day at Silverstone 2 weeks ago to "case the joint" to see where we wanted to stand and that was Ł8 each for great racing too.

It did make Ford Fair look like a really quiet event though in comparison!

 

Only race weekend I've ever done must of been 1997 at Thruxton for the BTCC (the weekend Nige Mansel hit the wall at the last chicane and done his neck in the Mondeo I think) and had such a great time. Was always something to go see or what ever and get goody bags from sponsor displays and get to walk about the pits.

I'd love to do silverstone!

Went to ford fair few years ago and barely got around it in the day. Probably missed a third of it with just walking by most stuff rather than enjoying what I'm going past.

You do Friday to today then?

 

Nah, only did today.

If you've not experienced Silverstone much (think this was our 5th or 6th time this year as we're only 45 mins away) then it's certainly worth going for the full weekend to get to see the track from various places - the different viewing areas all have their merits.

 

The mistake I made was trying to walk around and see everything and then to go back after to actually look and enjoy it.

I really do hope they get rid of Eddie Jordan though. I find him very patronising and self righteous.

Susie Perry is very nice to look at and knows her stuff and square head coulthard i find is very easy to watch and has a great view/opinion on events. Especially when Eddie "lays down the law" he says it how it is from a drivers point of view.