F1 Great Britain GP: The rain left Free Practice 1 for nothing

Britain accepted the Formula 1 have time in English. The clouds took over the show Silverstone with intermittent rain causing drivers to spend longer hours inside their respective boxes than training on the track. The large audience already present at the stands of the legendary British track had to make do with a few turns as they all rode on a track that started out quite wet and that in the ensuing rain, did not end the drainage. . The riders came out on soft rubber in the final minutes, but not enough to give representative laps that clarified the doubts of where the race begins. British GP of this course.

Most teams have taken advantage of the proximity of this track to their factories to bring important news. The FP1 will be an important test bench for the many new components put together by the single-seaters of each group.

It’s time to collect important data to understand the wind tunnel relationship and simulation and to start understanding the components to optimize car performance with the best balance and set-up. But all that work had to be postponed. Teams have collected very little data and have to work hard on Free Practice 2, which should be dry.

Fernando Alonso, for example, has not begun to verify in a representative way the step forward his vehicle should take with its new floor location and the evolution in bodywork and pontoons. But Alpinelike any other set,

He didn’t want to take the slightest risk. If the predictions gave rain for ‘qualy’ and the races, the tests would have been bigger, but it doesn’t look like that for the rest of the weekend.

This way, the one that is most rolled is Lewis Hamiltonwhich precedes the second Sainz (3rd) and in the back Valtteri Bottaswho led the session with him Alfa Romeo. Seeing Finn with a Swiss -origin car upstairs says it all. Free Exercise 1 was not given much and we had to wait for Free Exercise 1 to start clarifying some questions.