Officially 7 days until British Grand Prix! With the victory in Canada la Red Bull e Max Verstappen continue the sprint to the World Cup. To confirm their supremacy, however, they will also have to assert themselves in the next ones 4 stages of July which will close the first part of the season. It starts with Silverstone, fast and technical track, theater of historic battles and glorious victories.
Red Bull would like to close the World speech as soon as possible, while Ferrari must necessarily obtain some victories in enemy territory to keep believing it without just hoping for a miracle. Silverstone is also the home race of many teams, and especially drivers: Russell, Norris, Hamilton. The three royal page boys are ready to make the audience thunder in the stands but will their teams be too?
A battle for the iris
Right here, a year ago Max Verstappen left the scene after a contact with Lewis Hamilton. One of the most approaches "physicists", of the battle between the two, who arrived to compete for the world championship in Abu Dhabi. Colliding at the speeds reached at Silverstone is madness, but the gap between Lewis and Max since that episode, apart from that in the standings, hasn't shortened, quite the contrary. Silverstone he definitively broke every balance and made the fight for the world championship even more exciting.
Max is still there, in the lead, but this time in the mirrors he could perceive the cumbersome presence of Charles Leclerc and his beast, the F1-75. The two have so far competed like true gentlemen but the World Championship is tempting to anyone and with the races going on, and the gap increasing, finishing second is no longer enough.
Ferrari chasing success
7-2 this is the balance between victories Red Bull and Ferrari since the beginning of the season. There Ferrari must win again, and Silverstone being also the track that Leclerc likes the most, could be the right occasion to break this chain of failures that the Red has been carrying around since Australian Grand Prix, which we remember, was the 3rd round of the World Cup. There Ferrari in Canada he playedhazard with Leclerc, who now has many fresh elements in the engine park, to be used in these next 4 appointments before the summer break, essential to relaunch in the fight for the World Cup.
In terms of updates, the teams study and evaluate where and when to intervene to further develop the single-seaters. Christian horner ha declared that Red Bull will not bring substantial innovations at least until the summer break, as an effect of the budget cap, which limits team spending.
Mercedes matriculation exam at Silverstone
One of the questions we seek an answer to is certainly this: Mercedes will be competitive again? But so far we have only received inconstant data, and too different to state a change of course based on the World Cup. After 3 street circuits, or almost, and with more updates arriving, Silverstone could be the real test, thegraduation exam, for the star from Brackley who is not satisfied with getting on the podium as third force, to occupy a place, when one of the 4 up front, stands up.
Red Bull and Ferrari are waiting at the gate
One of the main problems concerns porpoising, and theappeal to the FIA it's one of the tricks that the Brackley team has tried to make up ground against their rivals. But the new directive, arrived precisely at the request of the German team, submitted the Mercedes to numerous criticism and controversy. therefore should come to victory, Red Bull e Ferrari would ready to intervene. On the other hand an additional failure for Lewis Hamilton would tie it to a negative record, unlike the positive ones, which the Englishman is used to disintegrating. Should he miss the victory, the 2022 season would become for him the one in which he collected more defeats in succession, throughout his career. At the moment this statistic is stuck at 10, but with Silverstone it could reach 11, never reached by the Englishman who boasts 7 world titles and more victories in the history of the category.
No Sprint this year
Last year in England they made theirs absolute debut the Sprint qualifying, innovative format, approved and reconfirmed for the 2022 season, albeit with some changes. One of these is the appointment of other Grands Prix to host the Sprints. Imola has the seat of Silverstone soon, while Austria that of Monza. Brazil was the only stage reconfirmed for this format after the extraordinary 2021 edition.
The weekend in England is Than we back to the classic one, with FP1 and FP2 on Friday, FP3 and qualifying on Saturday and the race on Sunday. Let's see the times of events that will accompany us during the weekend.
It will be possible to follow and not miss a single minute on Sky F1 Sports, Now TV and deferred up Tv8.
Friday 1st July
14 pm Free Practice 00
17:00 Free Practice 2
Saturday 2th July
13:00 Free Practice 3
16 pm Qualification
Sunday July 3th
16:00 Race
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Saturday 2th July
19 pm Qualifications
Sunday July 3th
19:00 Race
