2016 British Grand Prix Review

Review of the tenth round of the 2016 F1 season at Silverstone, Northamptonshire, for the British Grand Prix.

Overall, a dominating race weekend for Mercedes, dominating in practice, dominating in qualifying, and most importantly dominating in the race for Mercedes driver and current Formula 1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton was on pole for Sunday's race. In a wet to dry British Grand Prix, Hamilton took the advantage in the wet conditions and comfortably lead the race throughout going into dry conditions to conclude with a home race win in this seasons British Grand Prix for Hamilton's fourth race win of the season.



While, team-mate Nico Rosberg finished in second place in the other Mercedes. However, Rosberg received a ten-second time penalty for receiving illegal assistance via team radio, demoting him to third. Therefore, Max Verstappen instead finished in second place in the Red Bull, Verstappen was eight seconds behind Hamilton at the end.

Meanwhile, Nico Rosberg finished in third place in the other Mercedes to complete the podium, Rosberg was seventeen seconds behind Hamilton at the end of the fifty-two lap race.

Rate the Teams and Drivers

Mercedes - 8
Lewis Hamilton - 10 (pole and race win)
Nico Rosberg - 7 (finished third and fastest lap)

Ferrari - 6
Sebastian Vettel - 6 (finished ninth)
Kimi Räikkönen - 7 (finished fifth)

Williams - 5
Valtteri Bottas - 5 (finished fourteenth, lap down)
Felipe Massa - 6 (finished eleven, lap down)

Red Bull Racing - 9
Daniel Ricciardo - 8 (finished fourth)
Max Verstappen - 10 (finished second)

Force India - 8
Nico Hülkenberg - 8 (finished seventh)
Sergio Pérez - 8 (finished sixth)

Renault - 5
Kevin Magnussen - 5 (finished seventeenth/DNF, three laps down/Gearbox)
Jolyon Palmer - 5 (DNF, Gearbox)

Toro Rosso - 7
Carlos Sainz Jr. - 8 (finished eighth)
Daniil Kvyat - 7 (finished tenth)

Sauber - 5
Marcus Ericsson - 4 (DNF, Power Unit)
Felipe Nasr - 6 (finished fifteenth, lap down)

McLaren - 6
Fernando Alonso - 6 (finished thirteenth, lap down)
Jenson Button - 6 (finished twelfth, lap Down)

Manor - 5
Rio Haryanto - 6 (DNF, Spun off)
Pascal Wehrlein - 5 (DNF, Spun off)

Haas - 5
Romain Grosjean - 6 (DNF, Transmission)
Esteban Gutiérrez - 5 (finished sixteenth, lap down)

Next stop Hungaroring for the Hungarian Grand Prix in two weeks time.