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July 07, 2018

F1 Quals: Britain 2018

A sunny day greeted the assembled tea-drinkin' hordes at Silverstone today, and with it came even hotter track temperatures than we had last week... remember, the race that saw tires blistering after only a few laps? As a result of the nearly 130ÂºF surface temps, times were a little slower than expected today... how got effected? Here's the provisional grid for the 2018 Grand Prix of Britain:

Pos	Driver	Car	Q1	Q2	Q3
1	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:26.818	1:26.256	1:25.892
2	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1:26.585	1:26.372	1:25.936
3	Kimi RÃ¤ikkÃ¶nen	Ferrari	1:27.549	1:26.483	1:25.990
4	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	1:27.025	1:26.413	1:26.217
5	DH Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	1:27.309	1:27.013	1:26.602
6	Smiley Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing	1:27.979	1:27.369	1:27.099
7	DP Magnussen	Haas Ferrari	1:28.143	1:27.730	1:27.244
8	Lettuce Grosjean	Haas Ferrari	1:28.086	1:27.522	1:27.455
9	Charles AMX-30	Sauber Ferrari	1:27.962	1:27.790	1:27.879
10	False Esteban!	Force India Mercedes	1:28.279	1:27.843	1:28.194
11	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	1:28.017	1:27.901
12	Sergio Perez	Force India Mercedes	1:28.210	1:27.928
13	Meatloaf Alonso	McLaren Renault	1:28.187	1:28.139
14	Pierre Ghastly	Toro Rosso	1:28.399	1:28.343
15	Sony Ericsson	Sauber Ferrari	1:28.249	1:28.391
16	Carlos Sainz	Renault	1:28.456
17	Stoffelwaffle	McLaren Renault	1:29.096
18	Sergey, Sir Otkin	Williams Mercedes	1:29.252
NC	Pleasant Stroll	Williams Mercedes	DNF

Nobody, really... or everybody equally. Take your pick. What we got was a Quals session that saw the Lewis Hamilton take pole by 44/1000ths of a second, and the top three covered by just a touch more than 1/10th of a second. Easily the closest quals we've had all year.

Sadly, Pleasant Stroll beached himself in after only a few minutes in Q1 and didn't finish a lap. Similarly, Brendan Hartley missed out on Quals altogether after a rather brutal high-speed accident in Practice 3 when his front suspension snapped under braking. He's okay, but Toro Rosso couldn't repair the car in time.

Teams are saying that a two-stopper is quite possible because of the heat, so we might have some interesting times tomorrow. F1U! sometime afterwards... having dinner with Vaucaunson's Duck... so see you then!

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