Silverstone is a lightning-quick circuit loved by drivers and fans alike. The 18-turn (10 right-handers, eight left), 5.8 km track always provides fantastic racing over its 52 laps, thanks to iconic turns such as Maggotts, Becketts and Abbey, which provide some of the biggest challenges for drivers. To give you an idea of the speed of Silverstone, the drivers are at full throttle for 70% of the lap and are expected to make just 40 gear changes (hardly any compared to Baku’s 70), so it’s foot down and hold on.
There has been some fantastic racing for the Bulls over the years. From 2009-2013, Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel collected eight trophies in those five years at Silverstone, including three wins between them. Max has won twice in Silverstone, but only once at the British Grand Prix. His other victory was in 2020 when he won the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix at the Northamptonshire track. And who could forget the epic 2021 season where it came to a head at Silverstone when Lewis and Max collided sending Max across the gravel and into the tyre wall at 51Gs. That was when that season came alive and it was game on! Who knows what we’re going to get this year…
Max and Checo will take to the track on Friday at 12:30 (track time) for Free Practice One. Make sure you come back here to the race hub for all the exclusive news, reactions, photos and videos for the British Grand Prix.
It is another home race for the Team, so we want to make everyone at home back in the factory proud this weekend. Austria ended up not being the result that we were hoping for and there were a lot of things to take away from the race that myself and the Team can really analyse and work to improve on. There were some mistakes in the race that really cost us, however, we have to look at the good moments that we had throughout the weekend, including winning the Sprint and being on pole twice. We are analysing what we did right as well as what went wrong and it is the last race of a very busy triple header, so we want to come back fighting in Silverstone. This will be a special race, with a new customised livery on the car. We want to come back stronger and are ready for the weekend in Silverstone, especially as it is the Team’s 20th year, which marks a celebration for us.
Austria was very disappointing; performance was impacted from early on due to significant damage and that compromised my race, it was not an ideal weekend. We had made some good improvements from Saturday to Sunday, so it was frustrating to not be able to see that on track. We have worked to analyse things, to ensure we have the pace at Silverstone, across the whole weekend. In the Team’s 20th year in the sport the British GP will be a special race for us all, we are so close to the factory and the homes of everyone who work and contributes to Oracle Red Bull Racing and our incredible success. We have a special livery for this race, the car looks extra special and I want to make sure I honour it with a better result, returning to the form we should be in.
