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British Grand Prix: Max Verstappen recovers from pit lane embarrassment to silence Silverstone crowd.
Norris crossed the line and shot up to provisional pole to a huge cheer from the British fans. However, Verstappen, still to complete his lap, silenced the crowd with a 1:26.720 to take pole position by 0.241s ahead of Norris, Piastri impressing with his P3.
08 Jul 2023 4:20 PM
Michelle Foster
PlanetF1.com
Max Verstappen shrugged off a minor blip as he hit the pit lane wall in Q1 to bounce back to take pole position for the British Grand Prix ahead of Lando Norris.
With the red flags out for Kevin Magnussen’s stricken Haas, his car cutting out as he came out of Stowe, the bottom five drivers were left with just 3m11s to save their qualifying session. This led to a queue in the pit lane, one that Verstappen tried to join only to hit the pit wall – “I just understeered” – and break his front wing. He was pushed back in his garage for repairs.
As the track was green lighted, Perez led out the field with it taking more than a minute for Verstappen, at the very back, to leave the pit lane. The ever-improving track conditions meant one after the other the drivers took turns in the top spots with Q1 ending with Norris quickest of all. Out went Perez, Yuki Tsunoda, Zhou Guanyu, Nyck de Vries and Magnussen. Valtteri Bottas, although P11 in Q1, broke down on the side of the track so wasn’t able to line up for Q2.
‘Silence Silverstone crowd’;
https://www.planetf1.com/news/britis...ifying-report/
Qualifying Results – 2023 British Grand Prix
8th July 2023
by Emer Hedderman
FormulaSpy
Results (Classification):
Q3
1. Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing -1:26.720
2. Lando Norris McLaren +0.241
3. Oscar Piastri McLaren +0.372
4. Charles Leclerc Scuderia Ferrari +0.416
5. Carlos Sainz Scuderia Ferrari +0.428
6. George Russell Mercedes +0.435
7. Lewis Hamilton Mercedes +0.491
8. Alex Albon Williams Racing +0.810
9. Fernando Alonso Aston Martin +0.939
10. Pierre Gasly Alpine +0.969
‘British Grand Prix – Here are the complete results from qualifying for tomorrow’s 2023 F1 World Championship race around Silverstone’;
https://formulaspy.com/f1/qualifying...and-prix-82594
AS IT HAPPENED: Follow all the action from qualifying for the British Grand Prix
08 July 2023
Formula One - Official Site
‘AS IT HAPPENED’;
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/a...Bz29e9xXN.html
How qualifying for the 2023 F1 British Grand Prix unfolded
8th July 2023.
Reporting By: Connor McDonagh
Crash.Net
‘How qualifying unfolded’;
https://www.crash.net/f1/live/how-qu...-prix-unfolded
Verstappen SHOCKED after bonkers British Grand Prix qualifying
Saturday 8 July 2023 18:03
Lauren Sneath
GPFans
Speaking to Jenson Button for Sky Sports after the race, Verstappen said: “It’s been quite a crazy qualifying. It’s been quite hectic. Also, quite slippery in some places, but we did our laps. Q3, I was quite surprised to see them (McLaren) two there. It’s great for McLaren as well to be here from our side, very happy of course to be on pole."
He explained that it was necessary to be cautious, saying: “Especially Q1 and Q2 you know, there was still a few damp spots. You had to be a little bit careful. "Of course, you push close to the limit, but knowing that we have a quick car you don’t need to go to the 100 per cent limit."
He continued: "I think that’s why in Q3 when you just go for it, I think that’s where we then of course eked out the gap a little bit. It was not a very big gap to them. For us today, a great day and looking forward to tomorrow already."
‘Verstappen SHOCKED’;
https://www.gpfans.com/en/f1-news/11...aren-surprise/
Sergio Perez explains another poor qualifying performance after British GP Q1 exit
The Red Bull driver missed Q3 for the fifth Formula 1 race in a row at the 2023 British Grand Prix
July 8, 2023
Sergio Perez‘s qualifying woes continued at the 2023 British Grand Prix as the Red Bull driver had a poor qualifying performance for the fifth race in a row. After a late red flag, Perez was first out of the pit garages but waited for a long time at the end of the pitlane and on a rapidly improving track all but three drivers behind him improved to dump him out of Q1.
“I think the red flag lasted longer than we predicted initially and that didn’t help with the tyre temperature,” Perez told the media. “It’s just a shame to lose out because we had a great Friday, the race pace was looking really good. I think starting from the back is going to be another race where we try to minimise the damage.”
At Silverstone he looked visibly dejected post-qualifying and only faced two questions from the media before he was ushered away by Red Bull. “I think these conditions is where I struggle most with the car, my issues with the car become more apparent in the changeable conditions,” Perez added.
‘Visibly dejected post-qualifying’;
https://www.total-motorsport.com/f1-...sh-gp-q1-exit/
Home hero Lando Norris takes astonishing front row at British Grand Prix as crowd go wild
8th July 2023, 4:38 pm
Connor Andrews
talkSPORT
Lando Norris left his home crowd in raptures by incredibly qualifying on the front row at the British Grand Prix. Bristol-born Norris planted his McLaren second behind Max Verstappen, and will have his teammate Oscar Piastri just behind in third for Sunday’s race.
Norris had initially gone fastest, sending the Silverstone crowd to their feet, but along came his friend Verstappen to deny him his second F1 pole position. Speaking after the event, Norris joked: “It’s always Max, he always ruins everything for everyone!”
‘Crowd go wild’;
https://talksport.com/sport/motorsport/1491949/
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Winners and losers from the 2023 British Grand Prix qualifying.
Max Verstappen made it seven poles for the F1 2023 season by claiming P1 on the grid for the British Grand Prix.
08 Jul 2023 8:30 PM
Jamie Woodhouse
RacingNews365
While Verstappen claiming pole for a Grand Prix is hardly a shocking development at this point, the Dutchman certainly did not enjoy a walk in the park to that P1 spot at Silverstone as the track continued to ramp up and the bravest were rewarded.
After earlier rain had dried up, the track became increasingly generous in its offering of grip to the drivers, and while after the opening Q3 runs it seemed like Verstappen had schooled the pack, Norris had other ideas.
The Brit would send his home crowd into raptures as he went onto provisional pole, with only Verstappen able to deny him that top spot. But that is exactly what he did when the pressure was on.
‘Made it seven poles for the F1 2023 season’;
https://www.planetf1.com/features/wi...ix-qualifying/
Fernando Alonso planning defensive Aston Martin drive at British GP
The best Aston Martin could muster was ninth on the grid for Fernando Alonso, with Lance Stroll eliminated in Q2
July 8, 2023
By Brandon Sutton
Total Motorsport
Fernando Alonso has said that Aston Martin are looking at a defensive drive for the 2023 British Grand Prix as the team hopes to regroup in the races after Silverstone. Aston Martin experienced a difficult qualifying around Silverstone, as Lance Stroll was eliminated in Q2, whilst Alonso‘s best effort was only enough for ninth on the grid.
The AMR23 appeared to struggle in all three parts of qualifying as neither driver could get within half a second of the fastest time in each segment, something Alonso believes is down to the car not suiting tracks such as Silverstone.
“I think it is a bit track specific.” Alonso told select members of the media, including Total-Motorsport.com. “So we have to remain calm, two races ago in Canada we were very strong and were fighting for the win.”
‘We have to remain calm’;
https://www.total-motorsport.com/f1-...23-british-gp/
McLaren upgrades under Mercedes scrutiny as MCL60 ‘rocketship’ launched – F1 news round-up
08 Jul 2023 11:59 PM
Jamie Woodhouse
PlanetF1.com
Qualifying day for the 2023 British Grand Prix is in the books, where McLaren delivered a “wake-up call” to the Mercedes squad. It is a further gravitation towards the Red Bull philosophy which Mercedes cannot ignore.
“I think each of us had bodyworks that were perfectly good in the tunnel and it didn’t come out in performance,” Wolff told media including PlanetF1.com. “So you’ve got to leave no stone unturned and maybe look at it again, because another team just found a second in performance.”
‘MCL60 ‘rocketship’ launched’;
https://www.planetf1.com/news/britis...news-round-up/
Winners and Losers from 2023 F1 British Grand Prix Qualifying
08 July 10:40PM
Author Jake Nichol
RacingNews365
Winner - Max Verstappen: Five straight pole positions and he is surely set for a sixth win on the bounce.
Loser - Sergio Perez: Perez deserves some sympathy for this Qualifying exit for this was more on the team than anything he did himself.
Winner – McLaren: Speak to anyone from McLaren over the weekend and the story was the same. Yes, the Austrian GP upgrades had given the MCL60 a boost but that is a track at which the team have historically performed well and is one of Norris's best. Get them on the track at Silverstone and let's see what they've really got. And we did.
Loser – Mercedes: That sounds you can hear is Mercedes coming firmly back to earth with the realisation that the W14 is still a pretty tricky machine to master.
Winner - Alex Albon: Third, third and second in practice was no fluke from Alex Albon in that Williams.
Loser – Ferrari: The confusion between Leclerc and Sainz in Q1 was entirely avoidable.
‘Winners and Losers’;
https://racingnews365.com/winners-an...rix-qualifying
Bottas disqualified over fuel sample, AlphaTauri fined for unsafe release
2023 British Grand Prix
Posted on 8th July 2023, 19:10
Written by Keith Collantine and Claire Cottingham
Valtteri Bottas has been disqualified from the result of qualifying for the British Grand Prix after his team were unable to provide the required fuel sample from his car. Teams are required to provide one litre of fuel from their cars for analysis after qualifying. However Alfa Romeo were unable to do this after Bottas came to a stop at the end of Q1.
Bottas’ team mate Zhou Guanyu was also investigated after the qualifying session. The stewards decided against penalising him for impeding Esteban Ocon. However the stewards have penalised AlphaTauri for releasing Nyck de Vries into the path of Oscar Piastri during the qualifying session. The team has been fined €5,000 (£4,272) for the unsafe release.
‘Disqualified over fuel sample’;
https://www.racefans.net/2023/07/08/...nsafe-release/
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F1: Max Verstappen wins British GP as Lando Norris and Lewis Hamilton get podium at home.
Max Verstappen continues to streak into the distance in the F1 Drivers' standings, after sealing victory at the British Grand Prix on Sunday afternoon, ahead of Lando Norris and Lewis Hamilton.
9th July 2023, 16:40
By George Dagless
Give Me Sport
Verstappen started from P1 at lights out, accompanied by the two McLaren cars of Lando Norris in second and Oscar Piastri in third, and to the delight of the packed British fans in the grandstands, Norris led the opening exchanges after a fine start from the front row. Verstappen, though, was unbothered and would soon be back in front, with Norris and Piastri eager to try and work together and pull away from the field to secure a double podium.
However, a Safety Car midway through the race threw a spanner in the works for McLaren's hopes, with Kevin Magnussen having to retire. Initially, a VSC was called but with a recovery vehicle needed to get the stricken Haas out of the firing line, a full Safety Car was introduced, sparking a flurry of pit stops as the drivers came in for the soft, and assumed quickest tyre. As it all shook out ahead of the race resuming, Verstappen led from Norris, but Hamilton had managed to jump Piastri by being able to pit when the Safety Car was out, whilst the Aussie had come in earlier, with George Russell lurking in the other Mercedes in P5.
In behind them, a great battle played out towards the other half of the top ten, as Sergio Perez battled through from 15th on the grid to finish 6th, whilst Carlos Sainz was mugged late on by the Mexican, Alex Albon, and his team-mate Charles Leclerc. Back at the front, though, it was Verstappen who took the chequered flag, with Norris brilliantly holding off Hamilton as the British pair gave the Silverstone crowd something to really cheer.
‘Max Verstappen wins’;
https://www.givemesport.com/f1-max-v...milton-podium/
Race Results – 2023 British Grand Prix
9th July 2023
by Emer Hedderman
FormulaSpy
Results (Classification):
1. Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing – 52 laps
2. Lando Norris McLaren +3.798
3. Lewis Hamilton Mercedes +6.783
4. Oscar Piastri McLaren +7.776
5. George Russell Mercedes +11.206
6. Sergio Perez Red Bull Racing +12.882
7. Fernando Alonso Aston Martin +17.193
8. Alex Albon Williams Racing +17.878
9. Charles Leclerc Scuderia Ferrari +18.689
10. Carlos Sainz Scuderia Ferrari +19.448
‘British Grand Prix – Here are the complete results from today’s 2023 F1 World Championship race at Silverstone’;
https://formulaspy.com/f1/race-resul...and-prix-82613
AS IT HAPPENED: Follow all the action from the 2023 British Grand Prix
09 July 2023
Formula One - Official Site
‘AS IT HAPPENED’;
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/a...dv0s3FqrV.html
F1 British Grand Prix at Silverstone 2023: LIVE UPDATES!
9th July 2023, 12:24
Reporting By: Connor McDonagh
Crash.Net
‘LIVE UPDATES!’;
https://www.crash.net/f1/live/f1-bri...3-live-updates
Verstappen heads local heroes Norris and Hamilton to claim British Grand Prix win
09 July 2023
Formula One - Official Site
Norris jumped Verstappen for the lead at the start, with team mate Oscar Piastri almost following him through, meaning it was a Red Bull in a McLaren sandwich over the first few laps – but the reigning double world champion soon fought back.
By Lap 5, and with DRS at his disposal, Verstappen reclaimed P1 from Norris and never looked troubled, pulling away from the home favourite as the race developed and then managing a late Safety Car period – caused by Kevin Magnussen’s smoking Haas – that saw the leaders go for different tyre strategies.
Sergio Perez delivered another solid recovery drive to sixth after the Red Bull driver’s latest qualifying woes, making a series of late moves to finish ahead of Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso, Williams’ Alex Albon and the Ferraris of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz.
‘Verstappen heads local heroes’;
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/a...Aswy1lHq0.html
Lando Norris takes swipe at his own team after Max Verstappen wins British GP
Lando Norris hit out at McLaren's strategy despite securing P2 at the British Grand Prix.
16:46, Sun, Jul 9, 2023
By Jack McEachen
Daily and Sunday Express
McLaren driver Lando Norris openly questioned his team's tactics during the British Grand Prix, despite securing an emotional second-placed finish in a stunning weekend for the team. He finished behind only Max Verstappen on the Red Bull man's first Silverstone victory and ahead of fellow Brit Lewis Hamilton in third.
McLaren's choice to use hard tyres late in the race was highly debatable, as Norris hit out after reacting to his podium finish. "Pretty insane," he said. "Thanks to the whole team, they have done an amazing job. None of this would be possible without their hard work. They put me on hard tyres I don't know why. They are still beginners in something!
‘Team's tactics’;
https://www.express.co.uk/sport/f1-a...ren-British-GP
Hamilton congratulates rival 'FAMILY' after British GP podium
Sunday 9 July 2023 19:12
Lauren Sneath
GPFans
Lewis Hamilton made sure to congratulate his ‘family’ at McLaren after the British Grand Prix, where he took P3 behind Lando Norris. He said: “Also, I just want to say a big congratulations to Lando and to McLaren. Where it was my family, it’s where I first started.”
“To see them back up there looking so strong, I mean that thing was rapid through the high-speed corners. I was just wow. I couldn’t keep up, but we had a good little battle on the restart. The start wasn’t so great for me, but the long run on the medium was really great.”
‘Rival 'FAMILY'.’;
https://www.gpfans.com/en/f1-news/11...d-prix-podium/
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British Grand Prix conclusions: Norris’ podium warning, Hamilton wants answers.
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen claimed his sixth consecutive victory in the British Grand Prix to extend his lead over Sergio Perez to 99 points after 10 races of the F1 2023 season.
10 Jul 2023 6:00 AM
Oliver Harden
PlanetF1.com
Lando Norris made his first appearance on the podium since Imola 2022 to round off a very encouraging weekend for McLaren, with Lewis Hamilton benefiting from a late Safety Car to take third for Mercedes. Here are our conclusions from Silverstone…
Lando Norris really, really needed that. Norris is quite a sensitive soul by F1 standards and effectively admitted ahead of the British GP that McLaren’s struggles over the last year had affected his sense of self-worth. Not only was he remarkably calm under pressure, he was tough and spirited – as though Norris had channelled every single one of his disappointments over the last 18 months into an over-my-dead-body determination to stay ahead.
Lewis Hamilton would be foolish to commit to Mercedes yet. After two seasons of everyone at Mercedes overpromising and underdelivering, is Hamilton at last beginning to see the light? After his podium at Silverstone all he wanted was an answer to the question he’d been asking all weekend. Why is it, he said more than once, that Ferrari and even McLaren have quite easily managed to do what Mercedes still cannot?
‘Conclusions’;
https://www.planetf1.com/features/br...3-conclusions/
Winners and Losers from the 2023 F1 British Grand Prix
09 July 10:00PM
Author Jake Nichol
RacingNews365
Winner - McLaren/Lando Norris: If you'd offered McLaren a second and fourth ahead of the weekend and told them Norris would finish 3.9s behind race-winner Verstappen, your arm would be snapped in quite a few places.
Loser - Oscar Piastri: And on the flip side, we have Oscar Piastri. Piastri did absolutely nothing wrong but was caught out by pitting just before the Safety Car was deployed. Had it not, he would have banked a maiden F1 podium - and it was fully deserved.
Winner - Logan Sargeant: Williams boss James Vowles spoke this week of the breakthrough he felt Logan Sargeant had made in Austria and encouraged the rookie to kick on at Silverstone.
Loser – Alpine: To say boss Otmar Szafnauer was unimpressed after the race would be an understatement. He wasn't quite hopping mad but his frustration at a double DNF at Alpine's home race as McLaren scored 30 points was rather visible.
Winner - Max Verstappen: Next. Since the 2022 French Grand Prix, Max Verstappen has won 17 of 21 races, finished second twice, and got a sixth and seventh.
Loser – Ferrari: This place was a toss up between Mercedes and Ferrari but as one rescued a three-five and the other a nine-10 finish, the coin landed one way. To finish nine-10 from four-five on the grid is far from ideal and represents a step backwards for Ferrari after all that excellent work they had did in recent races to claw their way back into contention.
‘Winners & Losers’;
https://racingnews365.com/winners-an...ish-grand-prix
Mark Hughes: Why British GP jumbled the 2023 F1 pack so much
Jul 10 2023
By Mark Hughes
The Race
Yes, of course Max Verstappen’s Red Bull dominated the British Grand Prix. This is the 2023 Formula 1 season. As McLaren’s Andrea Stella had said when attempting to explain why his cars were so good here at Silverstone, less so at other tracks: “I’m sure Red Bull have similar kinds of issues but it’s within their margin [of superiority] so it doesn’t hurt them.”
The circuit: This circuit layout is relatively easy for a modern ground effect car and its monstrous high-speed performance. Even the bad cars are good here. The lowliest cars are flat or near-flat through Abbey, Copse and Maggotts, with Stowe a mere lift. All that’s differentiating them is their slow-corner performance through the Village loop, the Brooklands-Luffield complex and Vale. That and their aero efficiency.
The tyres: Red Bull had originally planned to switch Verstappen to hards when he stopped – and it hadn’t been figuring on making its single stop anything like as late as lap 34 of 52 (when the safety car came out). But the degradation rate for everyone was exceptionally low. So he stayed out, just in case there was a safety car and because the medium remained quicker than a new hard would have been.
‘Jumbled 2023 F1 pack’;
https://the-race.com/formula-1/mark-...-pack-so-much/
Wind, strategy and inconsistency at the heart of Ferrari's abysmal British GP
10/07/2023
NEWS STORY
Pitpass
Strategy, the wind and the SF23's infamous inconsistency were at the heart of a seriously disappointing Silverstone outing for the Scuderia. In the end, a day that promised so much, what with its drivers starting fourth and fifth behind the McLarens, turned out to be an abject failure.
Charles Leclerc finished ninth and Carlos Sainz tenth, the pair held at bay by Alex Albon in the Williams. For Leclerc it all went wrong when the Monegasque was ordered to pit on Lap 18, in what appeared to be a move to undercut his rivals, rather than extend his opening run on the mediums.
For teammate Sainz the inconsistency of the SF23 was made worse by the wind. "Very windy, very tricky car to drive again," said the Spaniard, "it's very difficult to be consistent in these conditions. We were struggling a lot on traction in all the tailwind," he added. "We couldn't get on the power and also a harder tyre made the fighting and everything very tricky.”
‘Abject failure’;
https://www.pitpass.com/75649/Wind-s...mal-British-GP
Hamilton admits “disappointment” at performance of Mercedes’ new front wing
2023 British Grand Prix
Posted on 10th July 2023, 7:1510th July 2023, 7:27
Written by Keith Collantine
RaceFans
Mercedes were hoping to make more gains from the updated front wing they introduced at the British Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton admitted. The team qualified only sixth and seventh for last weekend’s race. Hamilton said qualifying “was not the greatest feeling,” after lapping almost half a second slower than pole-winner Max Verstappen.
The team arrived at Silverstone hoping to rebound from a disappointing race in Austria a week earlier. “Because we’d had a really bad race, obviously, in the previous week, and we knew we had an upgrade coming here, we were all very hopeful of the step that we were going to hopefully try to take this weekend and bring us in closer,” said Hamilton. “To our disappointment it didn’t take us that step, unfortunately, and for us to be sixth than seventh just ultimately wasn’t a great feeling. Knowing how hard everyone’s worked, and how everyone was feeling it in the team.”
With some help from a fortunately-timed Safety Car, Hamilton was able to claim third in the race. “Hats off to the team for our strength on the race day,” he said. “I didn’t expect to be on the podium, so this is mega.” Hamilton came close to claiming second place after the restart, but was resisted by Lando Norris. He heaped praise on the McLaren driver afterwards.
“Disappointment”;
https://www.racefans.net/2023/07/10/...ew-front-wing/
Aussie F1 gun Oscar Piastri's name chanted by thousands of fans after securing best result of his career at British Grand Prix
• Oscar Piastri finishes fourth at British GP
• Result was rookie's best performance yet
• Fans at Silverstone chanted Piastri's name
Published: 01:39, 10 July 2023
James Cooney
Mail Online
Aussie Formula One rookie Oscar Piastri's name was chanted by thousands of happy fans after a career-best finish at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. Max Verstappen became just the fifth driver to win six consecutive races with his victory at the GP, coming in ahead of McLaren's Lando Norris and Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton in third.
Piastri finished fourth, but seemed destined for a podium finish after sitting behind his teammate Norris for most of the race. The Aussie was overtaken in the pits by Hamilton, who was helped by a safety car deployment that was called following an engine failure to Kevin Magnussen's Haas.
'It's a bittersweet result,' said the 22-year-old Melburnian afterwards. 'That's the best way to describe how I feel. The most pleasing aspect was that we achieved these results on merit. I think it's one thing to get these results by lucky incidents, but we were genuinely the second quickest team today, which was a very happy surprise.”
‘Bittersweet result’;
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...rand-Prix.html
British GP: Impressive race from Williams Racing
July 10 2023
By Williams Racing
In what was another impressive result from the Williams Racing Team Alex Albon and Logan Sargeant would finish the 2023 British GP in 8th and 11th positions. Both drivers were able to benefit from a significantly improved FW45 to deliever what were great drives.
Alex was able to start from 10th and after a tricky start would work his way forward eventually been able to pass a Ferrari and secure 8th. For Logan he would unfortunately start further down the order but would again impress to with a competitive drive to 11th, just outside the points.
Overall another fantastic performance enabling the team to further celebrate the teams 800th Grand Prix.
‘Pass a Ferrari & secure 8th’;
https://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s107/st204909.htm
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Pundits lay into ‘dithering’ Ferrari after a ‘nowhere’ British Grand Prix.
From winning the race last season to not even reaching the podium this year, David Croft has blamed a “dithering” pit wall for Ferrari’s latest fall from grace.
10 Jul 2023 12:45 PM
Michelle Foster
PlanetF1.com
Team boss Fred Vasseur concedes they went too conservative on the day. “I didn’t have the crystal ball on the pit wall and the plan was to do medium-hard and it was I think the case for McLaren, it was really on the edge between medium-hard and medium-soft and some teams did medium-hard,” he said.
Sky Sports pundit Croft wasn’t an understanding as he accused Ferrari’s pit wall of “dithering” instead of making decisive decisions that would help the drivers. “It’s interesting,” he said, “Ferrari before the race said crucially today you’ve got to get your strategy right, and you’ve got to make a decision to go with it. But then we see the same dithering coming back again.”
Karun Chandhok reckons Ferrari’s ever-present tyre problems didn’t help the situation. That, though, was little excuse for what he billed as a “terrible” weekend for the Italian stable. “I think with Leclerc they pitted too early, and it forced him into a two-stop at that point,” said the former F1 driver. Meanwhile Ralf Schumacher summed it up to Sky Deutschland by saying the result was “not satisfactory”. He added: “Although it was cool, the tyre problem was there. Sainz was completely off the roll when he was overtaken, that was almost embarrassing.”
‘Dithering Ferrari’;
https://www.planetf1.com/news/pundit...sh-grand-prix/
What left Ferrari too ‘scared’ to push in British GP
Jul 9 2023
By Josh Suttill
The Race
Ferrari was hurt by being too “scared” to push in the British Grand Prix rather than by its pitstop strategy calls, according to team principal Fred Vasseur. Ferrari left Sainz out on hard tyres when others, including his team-mate Leclerc, pitted under the virtual safety car (which then became a full safety car) for softs and mediums.
It allowed Sainz to move into seventh place but he had to hold off a group of cars on fresher and faster tyres behind. He was unable to stop Red Bull’s Sergio Perez, the Williams of Alex Albon and Leclerc from passing him, leaving him 10th.
“I really thought, ‘What do I prefer? To be on a soft in P10 knowing I’m against same-pace cars on soft and medium tyres which I’m not going to have a tyre delta to pass, so I’m P10, or a P7 trying to hold onto a hard tyre?’ At the end we tried the riskier one, tried to hold on a hard tyre against them which I think was risky, but I nearly made it work so it is how it is.” Team boss Vasseur agreed with Sainz’s assessment, believing that strategy was “the right call”.
‘Hurt’;
https://the-race.com/formula-1/what-...in-british-gp/
‘It was always going to be tricky for us’ – Sainz reflects on late-race drop down the order at Silverstone
10 July 2023
Formula One - Official Site
It was a race of what might have been for Ferrari at Silverstone after Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz were forced to settle for the final points on offer due to their strategies being negatively impacted by a late-race Safety Car.
Reflecting on the race, and his strategy, Sainz said: “I think I was always going to be a bit exposed with that hard tyre, but we tried. We had no tyres to fit at the pit stop. If we would have boxed behind the Virtual, behind the Safety car, we would have come out P10 behind cars with the same tyres as us, so it would have always been very tricky to make it through.”
“We tried our luck and it didn’t work out like it was meant to be, but overall a strong race, strong pace, but again bad timing, bad luck and P10.”
‘What might have been’;
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/a...mopwMy3eW.html
Sainz defends Ferrari’s tactical gamble despite being “dead meat” at restart
2023 British Grand Prix
Posted on 10th July 2023, 12:4010th July 2023, 12:38
Written by Ida Wood and Claire Cottingham
RaceFans
After the VSC became a full Safety Car, Sainz left the decision whether to pit again in his team’s hands. They left him on-track, moving him up to seventh at the restart. But by that point those around him on the faster medium and soft tyres only had to make them last 14 laps to the finish.
After four laps Red Bull’s soft-shod Sergio Perez got past Sainz. Albon followed through seconds later and three corners after that Leclerc, who had pitted to change tyres, got by too. The lap after Sainz briefly fell behind Alpine’s Pierre Gasly, but reclaimed 10th from him with a bold move at Copse. Had he not got the point for that position, Sainz would have dropped out of the top five in the championship standings.
‘Tactical gamble’;
https://www.racefans.net/2023/07/10/...at-at-restart/
Ferrari CIVIL WAR brewing as Leclerc slams 'TOTALLY USELESS' Sainz team
Monday 10 July 2023 06:57
Joe Ellis
GPFans
There could be a civil war brewing at Ferrari after what Charles Leclerc said at the British Grand Prix. It is usually pre-agreed between the team who would be following in qualifying and it tends to swap from one weekend to the next.
But with Sainz looking more in danger of being knocked out at one stage, he opted to change the order by overtaking Leclerc in the pitlane as everyone queued to get on track. The order was rectified at the final corner of the out laps but Sainz was not happy complaining on the team radio about being more vulnerable to the drop zone than Leclerc.
"What happened in the pitlane was expected, because we always try to get the cars out at the same time, to then manage them in the better way," Leclerc said after the session. "Of course, I understand that with the adrenaline in the car you don't know if you're going to make it, but his radio team was totally useless.”
Arrivabene: Too Early to Assess Vasseur’s Performance as Ferrari Boss.
July 10, 2023
BaylaSportsF1
It is too early to shine a spotlight on Frederic Vasseur’s performance as Ferrari team boss so far. That is the view of Maurizio Arrivabene, who lasted four years in the exact same role until he was replaced by the also now ousted Mattia Binotto.
Binotto’s successor this year is Frenchman Vasseur, and so far the Maranello based team has continued to struggle to return to the very top of Formula 1. “I’ve known Vasseur for some time,” Arrivabene told Sky Italia. “He did great things with Alfa and discovered a champion like Leclerc.”
“But when you’re in Maranello, it’s not easy. It’s a different organisation with so many people to manage. The brand is beautiful and also heavy. There’s a lot of pressure. You need time to settle in and understand the mechanisms, as well as understand what Ferrari represents for Italy. So he was right not to enter with heavy foot. First, you have to get to know the people.”
‘Too Early to Assess’;
https://baylasportsf1.com/arrivabene...-ferrari-boss/
Leclerc admits he didn't understand DISASTROUS Ferrari strategy call
Sunday 9 July 2023 22:12
Joe Ellis
GPFans
Charles Leclerc was not happy with the strategy given to him by Ferrari as he laboured in the British Grand Prix. "We were struggling in the first part of the race. On the first stint, Mercedes and McLaren were really quick. George was very fast. I managed to keep him behind, then I don’t know what happened why we went in so early. But this, I don’t have the full picture of it. I don’t want to comment on it too much.”
“Then obviously, that puts us a bit on the backfoot because everybody continued on the medium that didn’t have much degradation. I tried to stay more or less at the same lap times as the guys that were still out on the old medium, to then push once they stopped. But then, unfortunately, once they stopped during the safety car and they gained all the positions. Not the greatest race today.”
‘DISASTROUS Ferrari strategy call’;
https://www.gpfans.com/en/f1-news/11...ange-strategy/
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Inspirational: McLaren Car No Longer A Tractor.
The new version of the MCL60, which is now something of a ship of Theseus conundrum, was enough to earn the slightly hyperbolic title of "rocket ship" from Lewis Hamilton.
10th July 2023, 22:21
By Kathryn Xu
Defector
The atmosphere surrounding McLaren after pre-season testing was so dour that the team should've been underrated—only, McLaren actually matched expectations by not coming close to a single point in the first two races. Before the 2023 season started, team president Andrea Stella said that "[i]n terms of performance expectations, we remain realistic for the short-term" but there were "good developments in the pipeline." Unfortunately, realism in the short-term was may as well stick a raccoon in a go-kart and call it a day. McLaren only scored points in three out of the first eight races of the season—the best the team managed was a single P6 performance by Lando Norris during a messy, messy Australian Grand Prix.
Silverstone was necessary for McLaren to prove that they are, in fact, going somewhere. Of course, Norris was careful to downplay the car a little after the race, praising its performance on medium-speed corners but commenting on its "pretty terrible" performance on low-speed corners, which are notably prevalent in the following races. Norris is right—it would be unrealistic to expect the same level of performance from McLaren for the rest of the season. But at some point, McLaren will lose the benefit of potential, and that point is, depending on your level of pessimism, either now or long gone. If McLaren is looking for a point in time to be remembered as The Moment years from now, this is its best bet: a home crowd, one driver just a safety car away from his first podium finish, and the other spraying champagne with two World Champions.
‘No Longer A Tractor’;
https://defector.com/inspirational-m...nger-a-tractor
Explained: McLaren’s staggering turnaround... and why it’s the first step out of 10-year F1 wilderness
July 11th, 2023 8:10 am
Michael Lamonato
Fox Sports (Australia)
The British Grand Prix was a potentially seismic event for the 2023 Formula 1 season. It’s not about to change the battle for the championship, but McLaren’s two-three qualification and two-four race result has the sport wondering whether its understanding of the front running pack needs to be completely reconsidered.
We saw in Silverstone that didn’t tally with our established understanding of how the MCL60 is supposed to work. For one, Lando Norris almost pinched pole position from Max Verstappen, missing out by only 0.241 seconds.
More to the point, his race pace kept him directly behind the faster Dutchman for the first phase of the grand prix, and the car was quick enough to hold position all the way to the chequered flag. This is despite a late safety car closing up the field and giving Mercedes a swing at snatching a double podium for itself.
‘Seismic event’;
https://www.foxsports.com.au/motorsp...705fd751ec4663
The secrets behind the ‘rocketship’ McLaren that has propelled Lando Norris to the front of the grid
British Formula One team’s revamped MCL60 has produced astonishing results thanks to four key upgrades
10 July 2023 • 7:45pm
GARY ANDERSON
FORMER JORDAN AND JAGUAR F1 TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
The Telegraph
McLaren’s performance at Silverstone left Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton describing the MCL60 as a “rocket ship”. The team’s progress in the last two rounds has been phenomenal. After Canada they had just 17 points on the board but in the Austrian and British grands prix they scored 42 points – more than anyone but Red Bull.
There were four key upgrades that helped propel them up the order. An upgraded part alone will not deliver lap time unless it fits into the team’s overall design philosophy. McLaren did not seem to panic despite their struggles earlier in the season. They seemed to have a plan and appear to have understood why they were bad.
The main updates they had at the Red Bull Ring were to the sidepods and engine cover. Then at Silverstone there was a new front wing and updated rear suspension. The front wing did not change dramatically, with slight alterations to the main plane central section and the trailing edge of the rear-most flap, plus some modifications to the detail on the lower part of the front wing endplates.
‘The secrets’;
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/formula-...is-rocketship/
‘A wake-up call’ or a new F1 reality - Have McLaren moved ahead of Mercedes
10 Jul 2023
Lewis Larkam
Crash.Net
An incredible transformation saw McLaren jump ahead of Mercedes in F1’s pecking order at the British Grand Prix. But was it a one-off, or a sign of things to come? Steady progress was made over the next string of races, and following several upgrades, the team enjoyed their best performance of the year when Lando Norris qualified and finished fourth in Austria.
McLaren’s remarkable resurgence continued a week later at Silverstone, where Norris was only denied a shock pole by Max Verstappen and his dominant Red Bull, with teammate Oscar Piastri qualifying a brilliant third.
Hamilton was resounding in his belief that McLaren had “100 percent” a faster car than Mercedes at both the Red Bull Ring and Silverstone. “This is the first time in a long time and they deserved to have the performance they have,” he added. “So we've got to do a better job. They've now done a better job than us.”
“100 percent” a faster car’;
https://www.crash.net/f1/feature/103...ahead-mercedes
Gary Anderson: The McLaren upgrade only Norris used in British GP
Jul 10 2023
By Gary Anderson
The Race
The thing that McLaren seems to have done is put the cart before the horse with its latest Formula 1 upgrade package. By that I mean it got the main aerodynamic surfaces, including the sidepods and underfloor, developed and on the car for the previous race in Austria before introducing the new front wing at the British Grand Prix, which has improved the performance of all those previous developments slightly, on Lando Norris’s car with it arriving on team-mate Oscar Piastri’s car at the Hungarian GP.
I have never been a fan of altering a wing profile aggressively as it generates crossflow and that can be different between the top surface, which has higher than ambient pressure on it, and the lower surface, which has lower than ambient pressure on it. So where this flow meets up at the trailing edge it can set up vortices. If you want them, fine, but you need to know about them and what other aero surfaces further rearward they are influencing.
‘Cart before the horse’;
https://the-race.com/formula-1/gary-...in-british-gp/
Christian Horner shares his thoughts after latest RB19 ‘replica’ reaches the podium
10 Jul 2023 10:30 AM
Michelle Foster
PlanetF1.com
As Lewis Hamilton applauded McLaren for going down the Red Bull path with their upgrades, Christian Horner says more rivals copying Red Bull is “inevitable” given their record. While in days gone by Horner has landed a dig or two at Mercedes for taking a more Red Bull path, with McLaren the latest to adopt that philosophy he says that is “inevitable” given Red Bull’s success.
“I looked at their car on the grid, which was the first time this year I’ve really looked at it closely, and you can see the philosophy is very similar,” Horner told media including PlanetF1.com. “So yes, they have clearly chosen to follow the same path with the car as we did.”
“It is inevitable that that will happen. And why wouldn’t you? When you see a car performing as well as ours, it only makes sense to try to replicate it, as some teams have decided to do.”
‘Inevitable’;
https://www.planetf1.com/news/christ...rstone-podium/
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Alonso admits Silverstone result FLATTERED Aston Martin.
He told Diego Mejia for Fox Sports MX: “We were slow all weekend, and lacked the pace versus Checo and Albon."
Sunday 9 July 2023 20:42
Lauren Sneath
GPFans
Fernando Alonso: “I think P7 is a bit better than the pace we had. Other teams were flying out there on Saturday and they finished nine and 10...we need to avoid that.”
“The last couple races we were not so fast, but we need to look at the big picture, it is a gift for us to be in this position right now, we didn’t expect it at all; let’s see if at the end if other teams finish ahead of us it will have been because they deserve it.”
“Let’s see if Hungary brings better things, it’s positive on paper but we’ll see...anyway, I’m be here for you Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, to report on the funeral or party in instance.”
‘EL PLAN: Result FLATTERED Aston Martin’;
https://www.gpfans.com/en/f1-news/11...and-prix-slow/
Alonso “not too stressed” despite “one of the worst weekends for us”
2023 British Grand Prix
Posted on 10th July 2023, 13:17
Written by Keith Collantine and Claire Cottingham
RaceFans
“This was, and Austria, one of the worst weekends I think for us so far and we saved quite well,” Alonso told media including RaceFans after yesterday’s British Grand Prix. He believes a number of factors explain the team’s sub-par weekend. “It’s probably a little bit of everything,” said Alonso. “Out-developed a little bit in terms of a few teams brought some some significant upgrades lately.
“It’s track-specific, I think here was not our best layout for the package that we have. We need to see also the tyres, obviously it’s the first race that we have this new construction so it seems that maybe we need to analyse more in detail. But all in all I think we saved a very difficult weekend. Hopefully in Hungary we are again competitive.”
‘EL PLAN: “Not too stressed”.’;
https://www.racefans.net/2023/07/10/...ekends-for-us/
Alonso: Silverstone P7 'a bit higher' than Aston pace
10/07/2023 at 17:16
Michael Delaney
Fernando Alonso believes that his seventh-place finish in the British Grand Prix slightly flattered Aston Martin's real pace at Silverstone. Alonso qualified ninth on Saturday but gained a position on the race's opening lap. The Spaniard eventually spent the remainder of his race among the top-seven, finishing P7 at the checkered flag.
It was a relatively uneventful afternoon for the seven-time world champion who relied on a medium-to-soft tyre strategy to achieve a result that reflected the limited pace displayed by Aston over the weekend. "Yes, we weren’t fast enough in any session on the weekend, so it was not different in the race," Alonso said.
"We struggled a little bit with the pace, but we maximised the strategy, we tried to stretch the stint on the Medium at the beginning, and then there was a Safety Car, we chose the Soft, because it was just short run to the end.”
‘EL PLAN: Top-seven, finishing P7’;
https://f1i.com/news/480576-alonso-s...ston-pace.html
Alonso DISMISSES McLaren and Williams progress.
Monday 10 July 2023 17:57
Joe Ellis
GPFans
Fernando Alonso has dismissed the progress made by McLaren and Williams at the British Grand Prix. Alonso, though, is not convinced they have made steps forward, insisting that it is purely track specific and the championship will tell the tale come the end of the season.
"Yes, today McLaren has gone fast. But you also have to see last year, many patterns repeat," Alonso said to DAZN. "I think Williams came out in Q3, in Monza they also did very well. This year in Monza they will also go well again."
‘EL PLAN: Dismissed the progress’;
https://www.gpfans.com/en/f1-news/11...o-reward-plea/
"I'm relaxed" - Fernando Alonso shows little concern amidst lack of Silverstone pace for Aston Martin
10 Jul 2023
Harvey Orgill
Crash.Net
Aston Martin driver Fernando Alonso showed little concern when questioned on his team's lack of pace over this weekend's British Grand Prix. The Spaniard finished seventh with his teammate Lance Stroll outside the points, despite being Red Bull's closest competitors at the top earlier in the year.
While on the outside it seemed a disappointing result for the Silverstone based team in their home Grand Prix, Alonso felt P7 was the best he could’ve achieved: “We weren’t fast enough in any session on the weekend, so it was not different in the race.”
“Outdeveloped a little bit in terms of a few teams that have brought some significant upgrades lately. Track specific - I think here was not our best layout for the package we have. We need to also see the tyres, obviously the first race that we have this new construction. So, things that we need to analyse more in detail. But all in all, I think we saved a very difficult weekend. Hopefully in Hungary we are again competitive.”
‘EL PLAN: "I'm relaxed".’;
https://www.crash.net/f1/news/103116...lverstone-pace
Alonso makes MAJOR Aston Martin target adjustment
Tuesday 11 July 2023 10:27
Harry Smith
GPFans
Fernando Alonso has readjusted his target for Aston Martin in the coming races, claiming that the team should be looking to finish in the top ten at each grand prix.
Alonso had some calming words for the team as they look forward towards their long-term aims for the team. "But I think we have to focus as well on the long-term picture.”
"We cannot get stressed every weekend if we are seventh or if we are fourth or if we are on the podium this year. We need to be very pragmatic and very relaxed about our performance.”
‘EL PLAN: Target adjustment’;
https://www.gpfans.com/en/f1-news/11...sh-grand-prix/
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Wolff Labels the W14B The ‘Diva 2.0 Car’ and ‘Much More Complicated’.
Despite their continuous efforts in implementing a series of upgrades, the Mercedes W14 challenger has proven to be a source of frustration for both Lewis Hamilton and George Russell, as they struggle to close the gap to the dominant Red Bull team.
July 10, 2023
BaylaSportsF1
“I thought that Silverstone based on our historic performances was the best shot, but it wasn’t,” Wolff said after Sunday’s British Grand Prix. “So maybe there’s another track where we have the best shot [of winning] because the characteristics of the car have changed.”
“I always believe that we can beat Max [Verstappen], we have a good group of people, and the best drivers. We just have to give them a car that is more predictable, and not the Diva 2.0, and much more complicated than the first one.”
‘Diva 2.0 Car’;
https://baylasportsf1.com/wolff-labe...e-complicated/
Wolff: Mercedes 2024 switch soon to escape ‘diva 2.0’
Monday 10th July, 2023 - 11:30pm
By Ian Parkes
Speedcafe
Toto Wolff has indicated Mercedes will soon switch its development focus to its 2024 car after becoming frustrated by the gnawing unpredictability of the W14 he has described as “diva 2.0”.
Six years ago, Wolff said the team’s 2017 W08 was “a bit of a diva” given the fluctuations in its performance mirrored by results after three years of total domination following the introduction of the turbo-hybrid power unit in 2014.
This year’s W14 started life as an evolution of a car that won a race towards the end of last year as Mercedes retained faith in its development over the winter, only to immediately recognise in the season-opening race in Bahrain its plan was flawed. Wolff believed the race at Silverstone represented Mercedes’ “best shot” of a victory this season, an opinion he has been forced to revise given the vagaries of the W14.
‘2024 switch soon to escape ‘diva 2.0’.’;
https://www.speedcafe.com/2023/07/10...-w14-diva-2-0/
Wolff believed Mercedes would ‘EAT’ key rivals in British GP
Tuesday 11 July 2023 14:20 - Updated: 15:14
Shay Rogers
GPFans
Mercedes experienced a much better weekend at the British Grand Prix than they did prior at the Austrian Grand Prix, with both drivers finishing inside the top five – but maybe not quite as good as hungry boss Toto Wolff was hoping for.
According to AutoHebdo, Toto Wolff was shocked at how consistent the McLaren drivers were able to be through the race, even when left out on hard tyres for the safety car restart.
He said: “To be honest, when the safety car was deployed, I was almost sure, if not convinced, that we were going to eat the McLarens and finish in second and third positions or compete with them on track. This proves how good their car was.”
‘We were going to eat the McLarens…’;
https://www.gpfans.com/en/f1-news/11...d-prix-battle/
Mercedes thought Silverstone was 'best shot' to beat Verstappen
11 July 8:00AM
Author Rory Mitchell
Co-author Jake Nichol
RacingNews365
Toto Wolff believed Mercedes had their 'best shot' to unseat Max Verstappen's run of five wins in a row at Silverstone, based on their historical performance at the track.
Wolff expected their knowledge of the circuit to be a strength when speaking to media, including RacingNews365.com: "I thought that Silverstone - based on [our] historic performance - this was the best shot but it wasn't. So maybe there's another track where we have the best shot."
'Best shot';
https://racingnews365.com/mercedes-t...eat-verstappen
Toto Wolff surprised by Mercedes' British GP failure as George Russell left in disbelief
Mercedes had confidence in their race pace at the British Grand Prix, but were taken aback by how they struggled to achieve their goals later in the Silverstone race
12:42, 10 Jul 2023
By Daniel Moxon Senior F1 Writer
The Mirror
Toto Wolff admitted he expected Lewis Hamilton and George Russell to both reach the podium by the end of the British Grand Prix. The two Ferraris ahead of them might not have been seen as much of a threat given how poor they have been in races this year.
That proved to be the case, as Hamilton and Russell made light work of getting past them. It was the McLarens which were the unknown quantity. Lando Norris qualified second with rookie team-mate Oscar Piastri one place behind.
"Those McLarens are so quick on the hards – impressive," he (George Russell) said over the radio as he tried and failed to move past the Aussie in front of him. He had to settle for fifth behind Piastri, while Hamilton was third on the podium alongside Norris and Verstappen.
‘So quick on the hards’;
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/formu...stone-30430279
Toto Wolff quizzed on whether Mercedes have a fundamental sidepod issue
10 Jul 2023 1:30 PM
Michelle Foster
PlanetF1.com
With McLaren talking up their revised sidepods, Toto Wolff concedes Mercedes may have to re-evaluate their approach to the Red Bull-esque look after McLaren’s podium result.
Beaten by the McLarens in qualifying with Lando Norris P2 to Oscar Piastri’s third, Hamilton said: “I’m not surprised. I mean, if you look at the car, it makes sense.” He added: “If you just put it alongside a Red Bull, it looks very very similar down the side, so it’s working.”
Wolff himself conceded the new-look MCL60 “looks like a Red Bull” but added that the only thing at the end of the day that matters is the “stopwatch”. Mercedes did look at the concept in the past, they found it cost them downforce, but that doesn’t mean they won’t examine it again.
‘Fundamental sidepod issue’;
https://www.planetf1.com/news/toto-w...sidepod-issue/
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Ricciardo makes full F1 RETURN replacing De Vries at AlphaTauri.
Daniel Ricciardo will reportedly replace Nyck de Vries at AlphaTauri from the Hungarian Grand Prix onwards.
Tuesday 11 July 2023 15:15
Joe Ellis
GPFans
According to multiple sources, after initially being reported by Dutch publication De Telegraaf, the 34-year-old will take to the wheel at the Hungaroring with De Vries, who has not scored a point in 2023, being axed from the team.
Ricciardo took to the track in the RB19 in a Pirelli tyre test at Silverstone on Tuesday but is noew set to make a full return to racing alongside Yuki Tsunoda in the Red Bull junior team.
The Australian has been given a lifeline in F1 after he was dropped by McLaren at the end of 2022 in favour of rookie countryman Oscar Piastri following two disappointing seasons.
‘F1 RETURN’;
https://www.gpfans.com/en/f1-news/11...auri-red-bull/
Daniel Ricciardo's first words as F1 star officially replaces axed De Vries at AlphaTauri
Daniel Ricciardo is returning to the F1 grid after Nyck de Vries was sacked by AlphaTauri.
15:50, Tue, Jul 11, 2023
By Jack McEachen
Daily and Sunday Express
Channel 4 have claimed that Ricciardo's best lap during the test would have been good enough for the front row of the British GP, while the departing De Vries finished 17th, further highlighting Ricciardo's capabilities to compete at the top of the grid.
The 34-year-old has joined AlphaTauri on loan from Red Bull for the remainder of the season, and he was clearly delighted to be returning to the grid as he said in the team statement: "I am thrilled to be back on track with the Red Bull family!”.
AlphaTauri team principal Franz Tost explained the decision. “I'm really happy to welcome Daniel back to the team," he said. "There are no doubts about his driving skills and he already knows many of us, so integrating into the team will be simple and immediate for him.”
‘Thrilled to be back’;
https://www.express.co.uk/sport/f1-a...-Nyck-de-Vries
AlphaTauri CONFIRMS Ricciardo as De Vries' replacement
Tuesday 11 July 2023 17:03
Joe Ellis
GPFans
AlphaTauri has officially confirmed the F1 return of Daniel Ricciardo for the rest of the 2023 season. Reports emerged on Tuesday that the Australian would make his return to the sport as he drove in the Pirelli tyre test for Red Bull at Silverstone.
De Vries, who has not scored a point in 2023 after achieving the feat on his debut for Williams in 2022, will therefore be axed from the team ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix. Ricciardo, 34, will partner Yuki Tsunoda from the Hungaroring onwards at Red Bull's sister team, which currently sits bottom of the constructors' standings with just two points.
‘AlphaTauri CONFIRMS Ricciardo’;
https://www.gpfans.com/en/f1-news/11...ull-confirmed/
F1 bombshell as Daniel Ricciardo BACK on the grid immediately as rival axed after 10 races
July 12th, 2023 1:27 am
Max Laughton
Fox Sports (Australia)
Australia’s Daniel Ricciardo is officially back on the Formula 1 grid, given a second chance in the Red Bull family after being sent on loan to AlphaTauri. Ricciardo will replace Nyck de Vries, who has been axed after just 10 races, with immediate effect. His first race back will be in Hungary on July 23.
It means Australia has two active F1 drivers for the first time since the early 2010s, when Ricciardo was breaking into the sport and Mark Webber was finishing his career. Ricciardo drove this year’s Red Bull just this week, taking part in a tyre test at Silverstone following the British Grand Prix won by Max Verstappen.
F1.com’s Lawrence Barretto reported Ricciardo was so impressive in the test that his best time would’ve put him on the front row of the grid if he had entered. “I’m very pleased to welcome Daniel back into the team,” Franz Tost, Scuderia AlphaTauri Team Principal said. “I would like to thank Nyck for his valuable contribution during his time with Scuderia AlphaTauri and I wish him all the best for the future.”
‘F1 bombshell’;
https://www.foxsports.com.au/motorsp...d095dd4d5e0f64
Ricciardo will be in the worst car to exorcise McLaren ghosts
11th July 2023, 16:36
By Edd Straw
The Race
Daniel Ricciardo’s willingness to jump into an AlphaTauri mid-season in place of Nyck de Vries speaks volumes for the revitalising effect of the past seven months. He nonetheless faces a big challenge, but contrary to what you might expect that’s not because the car is uncompetitive.
Obviously, drivers are always happier when in a quick car but if his priority is to prove the ‘old’ swashbuckling, race-winning Ricciardo is in there, it will do the job. A driver’s level of operation can be measured within the context of the machinery and sticking a Formula 1 car into Q2 that should be 18th is as good as taking a pole position from that perspective.
Ricciardo will go into this with his eyes open and not expect miracles, but he will be setting high standards for himself. If and when he ever got into an F1 car again, the priority was always going to be to banish the ghosts of McLaren and prove to himself and the outside world that he’s still got it.
‘Exorcise McLaren ghosts’;
https://the-race.com/formula-1/ricci...claren-ghosts/
Red Bull heap pressure on Sergio Perez with manner of Daniel Ricciardo's F1 return
AlphaTauri have re-signed Daniel Ricciardo for the rest of this season in a loan arrangement with sister team Red Bull, replacing Nyck de Vries who failed to score a point
17:30, 11 Jul 2023
By Daniel Moxon Senior F1 Writer
The Mirror
Daniel Ricciardo has replaced Nyck de Vries at AlphaTauri for the rest of this season. Make no mistake, though – this development has far bigger implications than your average driver move to the team sitting rock-bottom in the constructors' championship.
Red Bull chief Christian Horner said at Silverstone at the weekend that he is not planning for a potential Ricciardo return to his team in the future. Regardless, though, that will undoubtedly be the Aussie's aim.
It will, of course, be the seat currently held by Sergio Perez upon which Ricciardo has set his sights. The Mexican won two of the first four races this season but has since gone off the boil, failed to qualify in the top 10 for a race in two months and slipped to 99 points behind team-mate Max Verstappen.
‘Far bigger implications’;
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/formu...tauri-30443360
Perez’s Red Bull seat is the clear target of Ricciardo’s return
Jul 11 2023
By Scott Mitchell-Malm
The Race
Daniel Ricciardo getting back on the Formula 1 grid with AlphaTauri is only happening because he thinks it is a way into Red Bull Racing again. And any conversation about Red Bull’s driver line-up across its two teams and Ricciardo’s prospects must inevitably involve Sergio Perez.
Red Bull Racing team boss Christian Horner has said emphatically it would be wrong to suggest Perez could be replaced. He is under contract for next season after all. In fact, in Austria, Horner made it emphatically clear that any talk otherwise is “wide of the mark”.
Then in Britain last weekend he said: “He’s the type of guy that just needs an arm around his shoulder and you work with him. And that’s what we’re doing. We’re supporting him. We know he can do it. We’ll know he’ll get back there and we’re just trying to make sure it happens as quickly as possible.”
‘We’re supporting him’;
https://the-race.com/formula-1/perez...iardos-return/
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BREAKING: Nyck de Vries’ sister posted cryptic message before Daniel Ricciardo announcement.
De Vries hasn’t issued a statement yet on his firing but his sister took to Instagram shortly before it was announced to state he will always have her support.
16:18 Tue, 11 Jul 2023.
by James Clifford
Formula1News
Daniel Ricciardo will replace Nyck de Vries at AlphaTauri from the 2023 Hungarian GP onwards, it has been announced. “I am stoked to be back on track with the Red Bull family!” Ricciardo said, following an impressive performance during a test at Silverstone.
‘Will always have her support’;
https://formula1news.co.uk/breaking-...-announcement/
Sky F1 commentator criticises premature Red Bull decision to sack Nyck de Vries
11 Jul 2023 5:45 PM
Jamie Woodhouse
PlanetF1.com
Sky F1 commentator David Croft believes Nyck de Vries was not afforded enough time “to show what he can do” before Red Bull decided to wield the axe and bring in Daniel Ricciardo. Croft though believes that ditching De Vries after only 10 races with the AlphaTauri team is particularly harsh.
“Daniel Ricciardo on loan to Scuderia AlphaTauri for remainder of 2023 season,” Croft tweeted. “1st race will be Hungary next week. “Can’t help think that however nice it will be to have Daniel back on the grid, Nyck wasn’t given enough time to show what he can do – 10 races!”
His compatriot Van Der Garde, who previously raced in Formula 1 with Caterham, stressed that De Vries is “quick as hell” and still has plenty of success waiting ahead in his career. “Never expected it to be over so quickly for Nyck,” Van Der Garde wrote. “If you look back at it, the amount of time he was given to get used to the car and the progress he made (slowly but surely) it’s – in my opinion – been too soon. As for Nyck, this hurts like a m*#%{f^]er.”
“10 races!”;
https://www.planetf1.com/news/david-...-bull-sacking/
Marko must take responsibility over de Vries failure
11 July 5:45PM
Author Jake Nichol
RacingNews365
In the end, it was all rather predictable. The square peg in the round hole was always going to be a difficult fit as Nyck de Vries's brief full-time Formula 1 career was ended, for now, by the man who gifted him the chance he'd been waiting years for.
Circumstances were against him from the start for a variety of reasons, but the undeniable truth is this: it was wrong for Helmut Marko to give de Vries the drive in the first place, and wrong to now get rid of him before a full season is complete.
De Vries is a victim of the success of Red Bull drivers past and present. Sebastian Vettel, Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo - the man who now takes his AlphaTauri seat for the remainder of the 2023 season "on loan" from Red Bull - have set the threshold ridiculously high. It is against these three drivers that anyone in the Red Bull pool is now measured and if it is abundantly clear you won't make the mark, then you are out and the next cab off the rank given a go.
‘All rather predictable’;
https://racingnews365.com/marko-must...-vries-failure
Our verdict as cut-throat Red Bull ousts De Vries for Ricciardo
18:07 Tue, 11 Jul 2023.
The Race
Was De Vries given long enough? What does this say about Ricciardo’s motivation? Is Red Bull’s call to install him just as big a gamble as the one it took going for De Vries? And was it right to forego the best-placed junior in its ranks? Here are our writers’ thoughts:
Good on Ricciardo for the U-turn, Scott Mitchell-Malm: It’s a strange move for both parties in the sense that this was possible late last year but it wasn’t workable then, yet it is now. But circumstances have changed.
De Vries’ season doesn’t warrant this, Edd Straw: De Vries’ ousting is a curious one because while he’s not been impressive enough to make it impossible to axe him, he’s hardly been the catastrophe that a driver would normally need to be to justify being axed after 10 races.
OK it’s brutal, but why wait?, Matt Beer: I understand the viewpoint that De Vries deserved a full season and that this is needlessly brutal. But I don’t see what the Red Bull organisation had to gain by keeping him around for the rest of the year once it was obvious he was not a long-term solution for any of its problems.
No guarantee this works out better, Ben Anderson: These F1 cars are very different to the ones Ricciardo made his name in. Doing well on the sim is just not the same.
‘Cut-throat Red Bull’;
https://the-race.com/formula-1/our-v...for-ricciardo/
Analysis: Why 10 races was enough for AlphaTauri to show de Vries the door
2023 F1 season
Posted on 11th July 2023, 18:11
Written by Ida Wood
RaceFans
Nyck de Vries has been dropped by AlphaTauri before he’d even made it to the halfway point in his first Formula 1 season. He has been shown the door after just 10 races and will be replaced by Daniel Ricciardo at next week’s Hungarian Grand Prix.
AlphaTauri hired de Vries after he made a ‘super-sub’ performance for Williams at last year’s Italian Grand Prix, racing Alexander Albon’s car to eighth place. However there were few flashes of the same form over the 10 grands prix and two sprint races he started for his new team.
‘Race by race Review’;
https://www.racefans.net/2023/07/11/...ries-the-door/
How Nyck de Vries lost his F1 seat to Daniel Ricciardo
Jul. 11, 2023
By Madeline Coleman
The Athletic
After de Vries went point-less and made frequent mistakes through the first 10 races of the season, AlphaTauri swapped the rookie out for Daniel Ricciardo on Tuesday, effective immediately. Ricciardo had been spending this season as Red Bull’s third driver, and now he’ll be “on loan” from Red Bull (AlphaTauri’s sister team), joining the grid at the Hungarian Grand Prix next weekend.
The move comes after months of speculation about de Vries’ future in F1 as he vastly underperformed this year, peaking with a P12 finish (in Monaco) and making it out of Q1 just three times. All F1 rookies face a steep learning curve. As the calendar stands, there are numerous tracks they’re unfamiliar with, like Melbourne or Miami.
‘Race by race Review’;
https://theathletic.com/4682963/2023...lpha-tauri-f1/
Ted Kravitz makes worrying Daniel Ricciardo point ahead of F1 grid return with AlphaTauri
Ricciardo has been called up by Red Bull's sister team AlphaTauri to race for them for the rest of the season, after parting ways with Nyck de Vries following the first 10 races of 2023
21:11, 11 Jul 2023
By Daniel Moxon Senior F1 Writer
The Mirror
After several months on the simulator, Red Bull chief Christian Horner declared Ricciardo had his "mojo" back. And that was put to the test on Tuesday as he took the RB19 for a spin around Silverstone in a Pirelli tyre test. Red Bull were impressed with the results and wasted little time before announcing his AlphaTauri move. However, Sky Sports pit lane reporter Kravitz has pointed out the potential flaw in the team's logic. "It's all well and good basing it on the Red Bull RB19, which is the class of the field, but he's not driving that car. He's driving probably one of the slowest cars on the grid, if not the slowest, which is the AlphaTauri," he said on the Sky Sports F1 Podcast.
"The AlphaTauri had some upgrades at Silverstone and they finished further down than they normally do with a non-upgraded car. This is not a great AlphaTauri, it's fair to say. Not to say that they shouldn't have replaced Nyck de Vries – clearly it wasn't working – but the surprise is why Daniel Ricciardo would want to go in to that car that is worse than the McLaren he left last year, probably. That quote from Ricciardo I thought was odd. He said 'I'm stoked to be back on track with the Red Bull family'.”
“He can't even bring himself to say AlphaTauri! He doesn't want to say I'm delighted to drive the AlphaTauri because it's not a quick car. Maybe there's some longer-term gain in it for Ricciardo, because there might well be some short-term pain if he can't do any better than De Vries." Kravitz could be correct about the potential for Ricciardo to shine in the long run, given his desire to get back to racing for the top Red Bull team again at some point in the future.
“Can't even bring himself to say AlphaTauri”;
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/formu...avitz-30444643
