2023 British Grand Prix grid

21 comments on “2023 British Grand Prix grid”

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   Jere (@jerejj)
   8th July 2023, 16:25

   Great qualifying by Mclaren, the upgrades clearly work, although perhaps also track-specific.
   Albon also had a good qualifying despite eventually finishing 8th while the Mercedes duo & Alonso were surprisingly slow.
   Ocon & Stroll messed up their final attempts in Q2, with silly games, while Q1 end also had unnecessarily silly games, all caused by Sainz’s slowness in leaving the pit lane.
   Perez, though. Yet another non-Q3 appearance in the outright fastest car.
   Embarrassing, especially as he was briefly P1 but still ended up down to P16.
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   Qeki (@qeki)
   8th July 2023, 16:26

   Don’t know how to feel about that mclaren upgrade. Are there the ones who will challenge red bull this day onwards or just track releated
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      Yellow Baron
      8th July 2023, 16:35

      Hmm I’m also wondering if it’s just qualifying related. They dropped back in Austria
   2. 

      Alex
      8th July 2023, 19:01

      Probably a bit of car and a bit of track… but I’m leaving the next race to one side for now, and just planning to enjoy tomorrow
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   NewVerstappenFan (@jureo)
   8th July 2023, 16:26

   Amazing..

   To quote autosport:
   This will be McLaren’s first front-row start at Silverstone since the 2008 race. On that occasion, it was Kovalainen in P2.

   So battle for P2 is rather astonishing, McLaren, Ferrari, Mercedes, Aston Martin, everyone in range of P2 pole position.

   Except Verstappen, who seems to be the new Hamilton.

   Was there ever a driver more dominant, less opposed than Max?
   1. 

      Yellow Baron
      8th July 2023, 16:36

      Going by 2023 so far I think not
      1. 

         elchinero (@elchinero)
         8th July 2023, 18:37

         #44 beat #23 crowd goes wild
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      Red Andy (@red-andy)
      8th July 2023, 17:24

      @jureo

      Was there ever a driver more dominant, less opposed than Max?

      Schumacher from 2000 onwards and Hamilton following Rosberg’s retirement, and that’s just in the time I’ve been watching F1.

      You can’t sustain the argument that Red Bull is a dominant car when one driver isn’t even regularly getting to Q3. During the Mercedes era Bottas had something like 100 Q3 appearances in a row.
      1. 

         Bob
         9th July 2023, 8:26

         Or no body can sustain the argument Perez is actually a good driver…….

         If one car is getting 1st and the other struggling to make q3, it says some thing about the 2nd driver, not the car. But then everybody knew Perez wasnt very good to start with.
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         NewVerstappenFan (@jureo)
         9th July 2023, 21:39

         After 4 Races Perez seemed like a genuine contender.. Now he contends for q3.

         Hamilton had Rosberg who was very good, and Hamilton usually had a tenth or two on him.

         Max probably has that bit extra on most drivers, he is quite awesome, but so is the car.

         It is the kind of car all greatest drivers would be great in.

         At this rate, he might take records from Ham and Msc before hitting age 31.
4. 

   Ben
   8th July 2023, 16:30

   Such a shame Mclaren will be 30+ seconds behind tomorrow. A few years ago this could have been a classic, but it’ll be another snooze fest tomorrow with Max 5 seconds clear after 2 laps.

   McLaren should have an easy podium as Ferraris tyre wear looks quite bad. Mercedes may come back, but as predicted it’ll be a P5 at best for them.

   Great to see McLaren back, just wish we had a genuine battle at the front.
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      NewVerstappenFan (@jureo)
      9th July 2023, 21:41

      You need to look at F1 as two classes, Max and everyone else.

      Mclaren just arrived as title contenders in their class.
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   Ken
   8th July 2023, 16:36

   Considering the windtunnel time Aston has had ,they are doing pretty bad job with their upgrades.Quite dissapointing to say the least.
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      Pinak Ghosh (@pinakghosh)
      8th July 2023, 16:42

      Pointed this out at the last race as well. Unless there are any major upgrades in the pipeline, I think development at AMR has reached a crest for the year.
      1. 

         Ken
         8th July 2023, 16:50

         Let´s see with the next two rounds ,but sadly this might be the case yeah.
   2. 

      MichaelN
      8th July 2023, 17:22

      Indeed, they’re fast dropping into the midfield. But the way the upgrades are brought seems a bit different, used to be that everyone sort of brought them in at the same time.
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   Pinak Ghosh (@pinakghosh)
   8th July 2023, 16:36

   It’s good to see a rookie on the second row for the Sunday race. Impressive pace from Piastri, justifying the drama of last year. Lando also delivered and a solid overall Saturday for Mclaren. But commentators at F1 TV made a critical observation to which I completely agree – yes, the Red Bull is a seriously quick car, but you still need a seriously quick driver to ruin it for everyone else!
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   MichaelN
   8th July 2023, 17:21

   Seems like the F1 TV commentators forgot they are talking on the world feed. You’d think this was a UKIP-organised watch-along party…

   Anyway, great result for McLaren and especially impressive for Piastri who was lamenting not getting the upgrades last week. Good on him for instantly making the most of it!

   And you know your team loves you when they go to great lengths to make sure you’re out first on a drying track. Oh well, at least that’ll give Pérez the chance to make some nice overtakes again.
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      SteveP
      8th July 2023, 18:34

      You’d think this was a UKIP-organised watch-along party…

      That’s definitely not nice.
      I think I’d be shuddering just typing those four uppercase letters, never mind comparing simple folk like F1 TV commentators to them.
   2. 

      elchinero (@elchinero)
      8th July 2023, 18:38

      Oh so true …
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         elchinero (@elchinero)
         8th July 2023, 18:40

         Liked Hinch asking a Brit (?) spectator who she liked and she said FERRARI

         DOH

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