2014 British Grand Prix lap times and fastest laps

2014 British Grand Prix

6th July 2014, 21:39 | Written by Keith Collantine

Lewis Hamilton set the fastest lap of the British Grand Prix during the middle of the race while he was chasing down race leader Nico Rosberg.

But would Hamilton have been able to catch his team mate had it not been for gearbox problem?

Hamilton had a clear edge on Rosberg during their first stint on medium tyres, consistently taking around three tenths of a second out of his team mate. His margin was even greater after he made his first pit stop and switched to the hard tyre, gaining over a second per lap on the other Mercedes.

But Rosberg’s gearbox problem had begun much earlier. He reported a problem with his down-shift initially, and according to his team it then cleared up for around ten laps. Then the problem returned, this time on the up-shifts, and proved impossible to fix.

It’s likely that when Hamilton was making his biggest gains on Rosberg than was largely down to the problem which had struck the other Mercedes.

However Hamilton had a clear underlying pace advantage. Had he been able to go the distance on his second set of tyres it’s likely he would have been able to stay within range of Rosberg to get again. And even if not, by being able to finish the race on medium tyres he would have stood a fair chance of jumping Rosberg in the pits or passing him on-track.

Unfortunately we never got to see how this particular battle would have been resolved. But as Mercedes continue to enjoy a substantial performance advantage – Hamilton’s best lap was over two seconds faster than anyone else had managed at the time he set it – there will surely be more of those to savour this year.

British Grand Prix lap times

All the lap times by the drivers (in seconds, very slow laps excluded):

https://www.racefans.net/charts/2014drivercolours.csv

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52
Nico Rosberg	135.166		98.609	99.011	98.934	98.75	98.857	98.857	98.988	99.169	99.464	99.767	99.267	99.024	99.139	99.25	99.039	98.122	118.481	98.615	98.309	98.331	98.454	98.315	98.53	98.091	98.288	99.705
Sebastian Vettel	143.937		102.113	101.545	101.807	101.138	101.348	101.283	101.235	100.027	119.757	99.53	99.754	100.055	100.215	99.351	99.594	99.758	99.816	99.668	99.564	99.752	100.005	100.177	99.915	99.823	99.874	99.918	99.34	99.817	100.089	99.612	99.419	120.138	98.825	99.228	99.767	98.702	99.491	99.382	99.034	99.572	98.944	99.216	99.293	98.837	99.915	98.449	97.785	98.452	99.26	97.481
Jenson Button	136.405		101.05	101.612	101.226	101.129	101.472	101.339	101.165	101.114	101.409	101.299	100.807	100.904	100.821	101.402	101.335	101.431	101.463	100.855	100.625	100.722	101.055	100.997	101.101	100.466	101.071	99.555	119.422	99.743	99.597	99.128	99.176	99.238	98.67	98.879	99.049	98.62	99.203	99	98.677	98.584	99.292	98.795	98.895	99.173	99.077	99.215	98.529	98.473	98.329	98.284
Nico Hulkenberg	145.216		102.878	102.368	102.39	102.372	101.983	102.719	102.715	102.698	102.579	102.111	101.823	101.75	102.164	101.437	101.092	101.833	101.402	101.424	102.29	101.456	101.488	101.812	101.774	101.568	102.746	102.954	101.273	121.017	99.842	99.52	99.48	99.116	99.327	99.534	99.497	99.291	99.584	99.47	99.195	99.182	99.204	99.348	99.376	99.406	100.056	99.387	99.077	98.987	98.933	98.625
Kevin Magnussen	137.733		102.406	101.51	101.663	101.421	101.431	101.127	101.031	101.079	101.221	101.188	101.454	101.383	101.848	101.039	101.189	101.158	100.989	101.267	101.086	100.721	100.867	100.853	101.989	101.453	100.259	119.274	99.063	100.024	99.459	98.677	99.038	100.149	99.223	99.391	99.285	99.517	99.895	99.513	98.938	98.899	99.08	99.365	99.453	99.33	99.909	99.575	99.423	99.641	99.676	99.36
Lewis Hamilton	139.816		100.284	99.533	99.345	98.786	98.861	99.012	99.079	98.794	99.012	99.433	98.954	98.763	98.969	98.554	98.68	98.708	98.837	98.935	98.718	98.792	98.877	97.583	119.839	97.176	97.307	97.622	98.703	98.855	99.35	99.329	98.809	99.176	98.277	98.595	98.979	98.75	98.695	99.025	98.232	120.06	97.722	97.483	97.554	98.114	98.555	98.191	97.857	98.094	98.145	98.78
Sergio Perez		145.293	103.995	104.108	104.545	103.1	102.157	102.36	102.796	103.038	102.949	103.449	103.357	102.535	101.654	102.492	102.556	102.463	101.863	101.751	101.442	101.675	101.677	101.856	101.771	100.531	121.479	99.905	99.561	99.778	99.494	99.42	99.63	99.621	100.078	100.452	100.317	99.718	99.622	99.439	98.716	98.908	98.954	99.265	99.154	101.579	99.785	99.637	100.186	100.265	100.039
Daniel Ricciardo	147.63		103.25	102.136	102.091	102.828	101.899	102.27	101.569	101.044	101.326	101.166	100.573	100.676	99.22	119.113	99.03	99.645	99.459	100.22	99.993	99.34	99.23	99.347	99.342	99.465	100.162	100.102	99.094	100.177	99.993	99.172	99.018	98.459	98.837	98.942	99.11	99.213	99.604	99.493	99.228	99.185	99.105	99.139	99.313	99.29	99.56	100.004	100.042	99.696	99.69	98.993
Daniil Kvyat	149.52		103.456	102.185	102.117	102.674	102.058	102.272	102.51	102.398	102.584	102.052	102.113	101.288	120.741	100.069	100.411	101.269	100.401	100.579	100.301	100.599	101.171	100.673	100.116	100.374	100.544	100.607	100.664	100.934	100.781	100.192	100.761	100.253	99.211	120.254	99.31	98.918	99.154	99.157	98.863	98.61	98.786	98.804	98.407	98.915	99.468	98.94	98.805	99.093	98.96	98.452
Jean-Eric Vergne	178.411		104.22	103.912	102.612	103.078	102.825	103.161	102.984	102.902	102.879	102.261	101.57	101.788	101.632	101.316	101.378	101.478	101.487	101.397	101.228	101.238	102.804	101.137	100.95	101.49	99.864	121.487	99.313	99.869	99.578	99.388	99.661	100.093	99.686	101.556	100.907	99.475	100.194	99.897	99.588	99.414	99.364	99.261	99.433	99.672	99.637	99.425	99.551	101.306	100.062
Romain Grosjean	174.789		103.765	102.927	103.827	103.065	103.005	103.086	104.739	103.306	102.519	102.822	101.899	101.859	102.134	101.713	101.864	102.9	102.309	102.371	101.699	101.765	101.788	101.715	102.112	102.121	102.001	101.691	102.13	100.936	121.493	99.644	99.993	99.712	99.906	100.177	100.068	99.681	99.683	100.021	99.624	99.322	99.255	99.656	99.347	99.209	99.456	98.919	99.125	99.116	98.996
Jules Bianchi	153.99		104.1	104.37	103.95	103.325	102.62	104.053	104.239	102.936	104.305	104.379	103.577	104.687	103.246	103.987	104.007	103.326	102.874	102.56	102.545	102.184	101.934	102.384	102.124	102.261	102.765	105.001	101.3	123.644	100.635	100.361	100.56	100.502	100.714	101.407	102.07	100.821	100.909	100.372	100.444	102.647	100.179	100.928	102.664	101.847	101.01	105.021	100.868	100.674	99.961
Adrian Sutil	157.495		104.226	104.313	103.906	103.545	102.426	102.606	101.94	102.11	103.422	102.362	101.982	101.932	101.759	101.815	101.613	101.755	101.699	101.761	101.721	102.169	100.818	123.443	101.088	101.148	100.365	101.916	101.592	100.986	102.374	100.823	100.963	100.041	100.057	100.558	102.274	101.147	100.848	100.583	101.301	101.092	100.703	100.362	100.837	100.658	100.787	100.89	100.982	101.527	103.747
Valtteri Bottas	150.817		102.163	101.217	101.475	101.238	100.814	101.304	101.334	100.951	100.975	100.625	100.225	100.186	100.195	99.901	99.689	99.749	99.95	99.72	99.671	99.564	99.743	99.601	99.767	99.582	99.489	99.274	99.427	100.325	99.363	118.086	98.274	98.264	98.279	98.541	99.031	98.459	98.402	98.907	98.53	98.37	98.464	98.345	99.089	99.212	98.959	99.126	99.342	99.238	99.282	99.977
Felipe Massa
Fernando Alonso	162.541		103.758	101.381	100.988	101.295	101.659	100.959	100.672	100.291	100.576	100.303	100.388	100.789	100.514	100.402	100.404	100.68	100.914	101.18	100.689	100.564	101.306	101.001	100.083	125.327	99.638	99.446	99.333	99.692	99.569	99.074	99.277	99.181	99.149	99.248	99.615	98.684	99.385	99.361	99.239	99.465	99.012	99.173	99.278	98.927	101.526	99.625	99.486	99.234	99.396	98.587
Max Chilton	152.665		116.769	102.788	102.565	103.077	102.863	103.023	103.134	103.243	103.074	103.043	103.064	103.015	103.561	104.045	103.41	103.177	103.655	102.531	102.651	103.326	103.835	102.686	102.089	102.804	102.765	104.189	102.051	124.37	101.523	101.345	105.634	101.342	101.05	101.386	101.822	101.25	100.893	100.824	100.932	100.462	101.198	101.178	101.49	101.389	101.045	103.626	101.839	100.399
Kimi Raikkonen
Esteban Gutierrez	160.601		104.377	104.5	103.721	103.425	102.566	103.385	106.694
Pastor Maldonado	165.18		104.049	104.58	103.764	103.187	102.89	103.271	105.785	102.824	102.881	103.803	104.47	103.855	103.448	102.517	102.582	102.498	102.324	102.189	102.163	101.935	102.115	102.122	101.953	100.357	120.096	100.352	100.325	100.926	101.053	100.875	100.851	100.909	101.009	100.867	100.927	100.833	100.78	100.907	101.055	101.086	101.753	100.927	101.091	100.708	100.877	100.314	105.659
Marcus Ericsson	169.542		105.24	105.28	104.779	105.943	104.319	105.587	104.383	104.415	130.389
Kamui Kobayashi		148.434	104.193	104.304	105.301	105.29	104.471	104.203	104.178	103.921	104.583	104.289	104.152	104.409	104.18	104.353	105.256	103.691	125.614	103.384	103.055	104.5	104.379	103.816	105.778	105.178	104.455	103.696	103.432	124.256	101.462	101.875	103.365	104.94	102.475	102.282	102.808	103.52	103.925	102.745	102.658	102.37	102.438	103.787	104.13	102.777	104.319	104.203	104.836	105.931

British Grand Prix fastest laps

Each driver’s fastest lap:

Rank	Driver	Car	Fastest lap	Gap	On lap
1	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1’37.176		26
2	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1’37.481	0.305	52
3	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1’38.091	0.915	26
4	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Mercedes	1’38.264	1.088	34
5	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1’38.284	1.108	52
6	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso-Renault	1’38.407	1.231	45
7	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull-Renault	1’38.459	1.283	34
8	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1’38.587	1.411	52
9	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	1’38.625	1.449	52
10	Kevin Magnussen	McLaren-Mercedes	1’38.677	1.501	32
11	Sergio Perez	Force India-Mercedes	1’38.716	1.540	41
12	Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Renault	1’38.919	1.743	48
13	Jean-Eric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Renault	1’39.261	2.085	44
14	Jules Bianchi	Marussia-Ferrari	1’39.961	2.785	51
15	Adrian Sutil	Sauber-Ferrari	1’40.041	2.865	34
16	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus-Renault	1’40.314	3.138	48
17	Max Chilton	Marussia-Ferrari	1’40.399	3.223	50
18	Kamui Kobayashi	Caterham-Renault	1’41.462	4.286	31
19	Esteban Gutierrez	Sauber-Ferrari	1’42.566	5.390	7
20	Marcus Ericsson	Caterham-Renault	1’44.319	7.143	7

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23 comments on “2014 British Grand Prix lap times and fastest laps”

Quant
6th July 2014, 22:25

“Hamilton’s best lap was over two seconds faster than anyone else had managed at the time he set it”

True, but I don’t think it is entirely representative. No doubt the advantage was large, but if we’re comparing laps set at comparable times, then I think a fairer comparison would be to Bottas’ fastest lap, from lap 34, which was also set immediately after stopping for new tyres, which brings the gap to the nearest non-Mercedes down to a little over 1 second.

While Hamilton had no reason to push after Rosberg’s exit, it seems fairly clear from the radio-message sent to Bottas after his pit stop that he could have upped the pace too if it was necessary, but chose (entirely sensibly) to consolidate an excellent second place.
1. Adam Hardwick (@fluxsource)
  6th July 2014, 23:10
  
  True, but don’t forget to account for 8 laps worth of fuel as well.
  1. leepat0302 (@leepat0302)
    7th July 2014, 22:35
    
    Exactly, I love this knowledgeable forum.
    1. Quant
      8th July 2014, 18:24
      
      If you look at the behaviour of Bottas’ times over a number of laps both before and after his pit stop they are very stable at their respective levels. I don’t think fuel was a significant factor here, just the fresh rubber, in which case I still think the comparison of post pit stop lap times is fairer than comparing brand new tyres to 25 lap old tyres, even with 8 laps less fuel.
TMF (@)
6th July 2014, 22:38

There were a few bad calls by strategists this weekend but what sticks out for me is RBR. In the past 4 years they were pretty good – this year not so much. Also today RICs strategy was just a gamble and VET pitted 1 lap too late to stay clear from ALO.
There were many other factors like VET’s poor start but from the lap times and the positions at the restart they gave away points.
1. rm
  6th July 2014, 23:00
  
  Their strategy calls this year have been consistently poor – at least where Vettel has been concerned. If their goal is to help DR finish ahead of his teammate then they’re doing a fine job. They pitted VET far too early for the first stop, forcing him onto a two-stop strategy employed by none of the other front-runners.
  1. Mr win or lose
    6th July 2014, 23:22
    
    I think their strategy in Spain was pretty good and in Canada there was nothing the team could have done better I think.
    When looking at the laptimes, it seems that Vettel’s second pitstop was indeed one lap too late this time, although I didn’t expect him to lose that position to Alonso. That overtake and his inability to recover wrecked his race.
  2. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
    7th July 2014, 10:52
    
    I disagree. Red Bull got Vettel out in front of Alonso – he just couldn’t stay there.
    1. Mr win or lose
      7th July 2014, 11:54
      
      Vettel lost half a second in his last full lap before his second pitstop compared to Alonso, so at least his chances of staying ahead would have been considerably bigger if he had pitted earlier. Due to their low top speed the Red Bulls are extremely vulnerable in these close battles.
      1. Corrado (@)
        7th July 2014, 23:27
        
        Actually, they (RBR and Ferrari) were pretty matched in top speed here at Silverstone. RBR is a better car in race pace for sure. Ferrari has no engine, no chassis, no aero… nothing top-tech in that car. Even with a mediocre engine like Renault, the RBR is still impressive on corners and exiting corners. Their very good corners exit saves partially the lack of top speed. Basically, what some gain via a higher top speed RBR achieves with a better traction.
2. gazzaguru
  7th July 2014, 15:08
  
  When you have the fastest car you can really make any strategy call work. Look at how Bottas moved up from his grid position to second, and similarly how Lewis moved up from 9th in Austria to second.
  It’s when you’ve got a much slower car, such as Red Bull, Ferrari and Mclaren – then obviously strategy and track position play an incredibly important role.
Sven (@crammond)
6th July 2014, 23:20

Am I the only one thinking that if Rosberg had not had that problem, Hamilton would probably not have pitted again? He stopped 15 laps later than Ricciardo, who went 41 laps with soft tyres, while Hamilton took on the harder compound. So Hamilton would have likely won that race, as all through the field pretty clearly the one-stop was the better strategy. Any potential pace difference between different drivers within the same car wasn´t big enough to matter.
1. RL
  7th July 2014, 4:08
  
  I thought that too. The second pit stop was precaution, from my view, and HAM had a 41 second lead.
  
  Had Rosberg not had any gearbox gremlins, I think he would’ve sealed this race. Lewis was catching him, but I would think the decreasing gaps were mainly down to the downshifting, then later on the upshifting.
Mr win or lose
6th July 2014, 23:32

Until lap 9 Rosberg very well matches Hamilton’s pace, then suddenly he is consistently 3 tenths per lap slower, which is probably due to his gearbox issues. He never seems to recover, as his laptimes after his pitstop are equally fast as his laptimes at the beginning of the race (same tyres, but more fuel).
Without his problem, Rosberg would probably have kept a 6-second lead over Hamilton until the pitstops. I don’t think the different strategies would have made much of a difference in the end, so I think he would have won.
greg-c (@greg-c)
7th July 2014, 1:10

“But would Hamilton have been able to catch his team mate had it not been for gearbox problem?”

We shall never know, German engineering robbed us of that,

but it would have been “EPIC”
1. Mashiat (@mashiat)
  7th July 2014, 8:50
  
  British Engineering.
GeeMac (@geemac)
7th July 2014, 6:20

Bianchi’s fastest lap was quicker than both Sauber’s, both Caterham’s, a Lotus and his team mate…pretty handy lap there Jules.
1. Lari (@lari)
  7th July 2014, 6:32
  
  That was a pretty good lap, but Max is not more than 4 tenths behind, which is kinda “normal” for them?
Lari (@lari)
7th July 2014, 6:31

Read this article @cocaine-mackeine and just maybe, just maybe you open your eyes from the tunnel you’re in. He/She thought NR didn’t have any problems before he stopped the car eventhough it was clear from the broadcast and radio messages already.
PorscheF1 (@xtwl)
7th July 2014, 10:17

If there is anything Spain and Bahrein thought us it’s overtaking Rosberg would never been easy. In fact the Mercedes drivers have never overtaken each other succesfully on track. The driver, in races where both finished, first into T1 has always gone on to finish the race first. Also in Austria Hamilton could not find a way past.

Had Rosberg not had this problem it would’ve taken Hamilton probably longer to catch up to him. We’re not sure he was going for this one stop either. He even pitted for another set of primes, probably just to be sure.

Not even this data can prove for 100% Hamilton would’ve gotten past. I’m happy for him he won because it might not have been true otherwise.
1. Mr win or lose
  7th July 2014, 11:00
  
  Had Rosberg not had this problem it would’ve taken Hamilton probably longer to catch up to him. We’re not sure he was going for this one stop either. He even pitted for another set of primes, probably just to be sure.
  
  It seems likely that Hamilton and Rosberg were on different strategies. If Rosberg was on a 2-stopper, he would have been in the same position as in Bahrain and Spain at the end of the race. That would have been really entertaining to watch.
2. William Stuart (@williamstuart)
  7th July 2014, 16:25
  
  Remember in Bahrain, Rosberg did get past, but a few corners later Hamilton managed to retake the position, so in a way there have been two overtakes between the Mercedes cars.
Ben
15th July 2014, 10:30

Hi, this is an interesting article on the battle between Rosberg and Hamilton. I was wondering if the author or anyone else can either give me a link or send me a spreadsheet with all of the lap times from the race for each driver? The graph above shows that they must exist somewhere but I am unable to find them. I am trying to do my own analysis of the race and would love to have access to this data!