Event statistics following the 10th race of the 2018 FIA Formula 1 World Championship season, the British Grand Prix at the 18-turn, 5.891-kilometer (3.661-mile) Silverstone Circuit in England.
Points leader Sebastian Vettel extended his points lead after emerging with his series-leading fourth victory of the season. He passed Valtteri Bottas on Lap 47 of 52 after a long dual with the Finnish driver and won by a comfortable 2.264 seconds over British driver Lewis Hamilton, who had fallen to 17th after a first-lap spin. The pair were joined on the podium by Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen, who also managed to slip by his fellow Finnish countryman Bottas in the waning laps.
Race Statistics
British Grand Prix
Silverstone Circuit – Silverstone, England
- Winner (starting position): Sebastian Vettel (2nd)
- Podium: Sebastian Vettel, Lewis Hamilton, Kimi Raikkonen
- Full Results: Sebastian Vettel, Lewis Hamilton, Kimi Raikkonen, Valtteri Bottas, Daniel Ricciardo, Nico Hulkenberg, Esteban Ocon, Fernando Alonso, Kevin Magnussen, Pierre Gasly, Sergio Perez, Stoffel Vandoorne, Lance Stroll, Sergey Sirotkin, Max Verstappen, Carlos Sainz Jr., Romain Grosjean, Marcus Ericsson, Charles Leclerc, Brendon Hartley.
- Laps Completed: 52
- Distance Completed: 306.32 kilometers/190.345 miles
- Race Leaders: 2
- Laps Led: Sebastian Vettel (38), Valtteri Bottas (14)
- Pole Position: Lewis Hamilton (1 minute, 25.892 seconds)
- Hard Charger: Lance Stroll (+6; 19th to 13th)
- Fastest Lap: Sebastian Vettel (1 minute, 30.696 seconds)
- Margin of Victory: 2.264 seconds
- Car Count: 20
- Cars Entered: 20
- Cars Running at Finish: 14 (of 20; or 70 percent of the field)
- Cars Classified at Finish: 15 (of 20; or 75 percent of the field)
- Drivers to Finish on Lead Lap: 14
- Average Speed: 210.065 kph/130.528 mph
- Lead Changes: 4
- Safety Car Periods: 2
- Race Time: 1:27:29.784
- Weather at Start of Race: 83 degrees Fahrenheit, clear, winds NE 7 mph
- Weather at End of Race: 83 degrees Fahrenheit, clear, winds NE 9 mph
Notes of Interest – Race/Weekend Recap
- This marked the 73rd British Grand Prix (69th as part of the Formula 1 calendar) and the 54th at Silverstone Circuit (52nd as part of F1 schedule).
- This is Sebastian Vettel’s season-leading fourth Formula 1 World Championship victory of the season and the 51st of his career. He is now tied for third all-time in F1 World Championship victories with four-time champion Alain Prost.
- Vettel is the first driver to win four F1 grand prix this season. He also won the Australian, Bahrain and Canadian Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton has three wins, with Daniel Ricciardo having scored two wins and Max Verstappen taking one win.
- This is Vettel’s second victory in the British Grand Prix. He also won the race in 2009, marking his third career victory in Formula 1. Vettel has at least two victories in 15 different grand prix.
- Vettel is the 17th driver with at least two British Grand Prix victories and the second German with multiple wins in the event (Michael Schumacher has three wins – all at Silverstone).
- This is the fifth season in which Vettel has won at least four grand prix. He also won four or more F1 races in 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2017. Overall, he’s won in nine of his F1 seasons.
- Vettel won from the second starting position, the 15th time he’s won from there. He’s won 46 of his 51 races after starting on the front row, and all 51 victories have been won from the top three starting spots.
- This marks the first time since 2013 that the second-place starting driver has won the British Grand Prix (Nico Rosberg), and ends a three-race streak of polesitters winning the race (all by Lewis Hamilton, from 2015-2017). Overall, it’s the sixth time in seven British Grand Prix that the winner started from the front row.
- This is Vettel’s sixth podium of the season – trailing only Lewis Hamilton’s seven – and the 105th of his career, which is one short of Alain Prost’s 106 podiums, the third most all-time. He’s earned at least six podiums in each of the last five seasons, and nine of 11 fulltime seasons.
- Vettel led 38 laps. It marked his sixth race led this season, tying him with Lewis Hamilton for driver with most races led in 2018. Vettel has now led a season-high 245 laps this season.
- Vettel has an average finish of 3.0 through 10 races this season; his worst finish is eighth.
- Vettel has earned a points-paying finish in 13 consecutive races, dating back to the 2017 United States Grand Prix.
- Vettel set the race’s fastest lap at 1:30.696, at a speed of 233.831 kph (145.296 mph). It marks the first time this season Vettel has set the race’s fastest lap and the 34th of his career.
- Vettel improved his lead in the points standings, now leading Lewis Hamilton by eight points as the season closes in on the halfway mark.
- This marked Ferrari’s 233rd F1 victory, and its 16th victory in the British Grand Prix, two more than second-place McLaren. Ferrari’s win is its first in the British Grand Prix since 2011 with Fernando Alonso. All 16 wins have come in the F1 era.
- Additionally, Ferrari broke Mercedes’s five-race winning streak in the British Grand Prix.
- Lewis Hamilton finished second, which ended his four-race winning streak at Silverstone. Still, he has five consecutive podiums in his home grand prix and eight overall in the event. It marked Hamilton's 124th career F1 podium, and series-leading seventh of 2018.
- Hamilton has finished in the points in nine of 10 races this season, and has an average finish of 2.44 in races in which he’s been classified this season. His streak of 33 straight races came to an end in last weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix at Red Bull Ring in Spielberg.
- Hamilton sat on pole, recording his 76th career pole position on Saturday. Hamilton now has six poles in the British Grand Prix, and four this season, tying him for the most with Sebastian Vettel.
- Hamilton now has at least four pole positions in each of the last seven seasons, and all together, has four or more poles in 10 of his 12 seasons.
- This marked only the second race this since in which the polesitter didn’t lead the first lap. Hamilton fell to 17th after an opening lap spin in the British Grand Prix, but made his way into the top 10 by Lap 8 and into the top five by Lap 14. Hamilton led the first lap of the Austrian Grand Prix, a race in which his Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas sat on the pole position.
- Kimi Raikkonen finished third, earning his sixth podium of the season (two seconds, four thirds), third in succession and the 97th of his career, tying him with Fernando Alonso for fifth all-time (only four drivers had more than 100 podiums). It marks his seventh podium in the British Grand Prix and second in succession (also finished third in 2017).
- In races in which he’s been classified this season, Raikkonen has an average finish of 3.25. Raikkonen has failed to finish two races in 2018.
- Raikkonen’s podium gives Ferrari double podiums for the third time this season, the most of any constructor. Mercedes has two. At least one Ferrari driver has finished on the podium in nine of 10 grand prix this season (only exception was the Spanish Grand Prix, when Sebastian Vettel’s fourth-place finish was the team’s best result).
- With Raikkonen’s podium, Finnish drivers have earned 10 podiums, the most of any nation this season. At least one of the two Finnish drivers competing this season have finished on the podium in nine of 10 races (only exception was the Monaco Grand Prix, with Raikkonen’s fourth-place result leading Valtteri Bottas’s fifth-place effort).
- Valtteri Bottas was fourth, his sixth top-five finish of 2018. Bottas led 14 laps, the fourth race he’s led this season and the first since the fourth race of the season, the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, on April 29.
- Bottas moved to fifth in the points standings, one spot ahead of Max Verstappen, who won the Austrian Grand Prix.
- Mercedes has led laps in each of the last three races, with Lewis Hamilton having led the French and Austrian Grand Prix.
- Daniel Ricciardo finished fifth, his seventh top-five finish of the season and fifth in the last six races. He’s finished in the top five in all seven of the races in which he’s finished in 2018.
- Nico Hulkenberg finished sixth, tying his season-best finish set twice earlier in 2018, at the Bahrain and Chinese Grand Prix, respectively.
- Esteban Ocon finished seventh, his fifth finish in the points in 2018.
- Fernando Alonso finished eighth, his seventh finish in the points in 2018, and the third time he’s finished eighth this season.
- Kevin Magnussen finished ninth, his sixth finish in the points in 2018 and third in a row.
- Pierre Gasly was 10th, his third finish in the points in 2018 and first since finishing seventh in the Monaco Grand Prix.
- Lance Stroll finished 13th, advancing a race-high six positions from start to finish. Stroll is the seventh driver this season in which he’s made up the most positions in a race.
- Carlos Sainz Jr. failed to finish his first race of the season, having been involved in a late-race crash with Romain Grosjean. Sainz entered the race as the only driver other than Sebastian Vettel to complete every race in 2018.
- Sauber drivers Marcus Ericsson and Charles Leclerc each failed to finish, marking the first double retirement for Sauber since the 2017 Monaco Grand Prix, with drivers Ericsson and Pascal Wehrlein each crashing out of the event..
- Brendon Hartley was the race’s first retirement, dropping out after the first lap. It marks the fifth time he’s retired in a grand prix this season, the most of any driver, and fourth in the last five races.
- Sergey Sirotkin finished 14th, the final driver to finish the race. Sirotkin also finished on the lead lap, marking the second time in his career he’s completed every lap of an F1 race.
- This marked Pirelli’s 350th F1 grand prix.
- The next round of the 2018 Formula 1 World Championship is the Emirates Grand Prix of Germany at the Hockenheimring in Hockenheim.
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