British GP 2013 - Preview

We are going to Silverstone for the British GP this weekend, the 8th round of the 2013 season.

For once tyres are not the news headlines, at least not now, but Mark Webber announcing he is retiring from F1 at the end of the year to join the Porsche Le Mans program. At 38 he’s calling quits after 12 seasons at the top level, and it’s said his place will be taken by the second oldest driver 33 years old Kimi Raikkonen. That will be a formidable line-up, one that VET says has his full approval. “I don’t think nobody could have a problem with Kimi as team-mate ...except for Sergio Perez.”  The rumors of RAI going to Red Bull had been going around for a while, particularly after he didn’t want to re-sign for Lotus for more than one year at the time when VET and WEB famously fell out at the Malaysian GP.  They had been team-mates for 5 seasons at Red Bull.

Two drivers traditionally perform very well in Silverstone: ALO & WEB. They are the only two with 2 wins  in the last 10 years. WEB has been on the podium every time since 2009 and has won 2 of the last 3 (2010 & last year’s). On the other end is BUT, the most experienced driver on the starting grid who has never even been in the podium for his home race.  

Controversy will always be part of F1. Most teams went vocal against what they consider a very light reprimand to Mercedes by the FIA for their 1000 Kms of testing for Pirelli in Barcelona after the Spanish GP. The German Team went from pole to nowhere during that race in Spain and then had one of lowest tyre degradation the next one (a win in Monaco) and then they didn’t experience any of their former tyre issues on the next race in Montreal either. “That’s not coincidence” complained Christian Horner the Red Bull Team Manager. Let’s see what happen this weekend where Mercedes are favorites to be on pole once again but according to many Ferrari could be the car to beat. “We are going to the fast tracks on the calendar –said MAS- that’s going to help us a lot”.

It’s time again to rub our hands in expectation, the action starts tomorrow.

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