Team by team analysis analysis of British Grand Prix Team by team analysis of Sunday's British Formula One Grand Prix (listed in current championship order): - BRAWN GP (Rubens Barrichello 3, Jenson Button 6) Barrichello beat his team mate for the first time this season and despite niggling back pain. Button started and finished sixth, his first time off the podium this year, and had his overall lead trimmed to 23 points after a run of four wins in a row. - RED BULL (Sebastian Vettel 1, Mark Webber 2) Vettel's second win of the season, third of his career. Red Bull's second one-two and Webber's third second place in eight races. Vettel completed a hat-trick of pole position, fastest lap and race win. He is now 25 points behind Button. - TOYOTA (Jarno Trulli 7, Timo Glock 9) Toyota fell further behind the leaders. Trulli lost a couple of positions at the start while Glock fell from eighth to 11th on the opening lap. Both drivers blamed the colder-than-expected temperatures. - FERRARI (Felipe Massa 4, Kimi Raikkonen 8) Massa said he felt like he had won the race after starting in 11th place. The Brazilian moved up to sixth in the standings after failing to score in the first four races. Ferrari were the only team to use the KERS energy recovery system. - WILLIAMS (Nico Rosberg 5, Kazuki Nakajima 11) Rosberg's second successive fifth place lifted Williams ahead of McLaren. Rosberg was caught in traffic but managed to stay ahead of Button at the finish. Nakajima, with the lightest car on the grid, started fifth but again failed to score. - MCLAREN (Lewis Hamilton 16, Heikki Kovalainen retired) Hamilton went from 18th to 15th on lap one and battled Fernando Alonso and Robert Kubica. The team turned down his engine after the second pitstop. Kovalainen was hit from behind by Toro Rosso's Sebastien Bourdais and pitted with a left rear puncture. He resumed before retiring for safety reasons. - RENAULT (Nelson Piquet 12, Fernando Alonso 14) Piquet finished ahead of Alonso for the first time this season. Alonso lost two places at the start and was then stuck behind Nick Heidfeld. Piquet gained four places when the team switched him to a one-stop strategy. - BMW-SAUBER (Robert Kubica 13, Nick Heidfeld 15) Poland's Kubica started 12th and had problems getting heat into the tyres, Heidfeld 15th. The German damaged his front wing at the start but waited until the scheduled pitstop before changing it. - TORO ROSSO (Sebastien Buemi 18, Sebastien Bourdais retired) Bourdais collided with Kovalainen and retired with a loss of water pressure after pitting for a new front wing. He accused the Finn of changing his line twice and also braking early. - FORCE INDIA (Giancarlo Fisichella 10, Adrian Sutil 17) Fisichella was fourth by lap 19 after the first round of pitstops but fell back after refuelling. Sutil started from the pit lane on a one-stop strategy and in the spare car after an accident in qualifying on Saturday. |
