Event: British F1 Grand Prix
Track: Silverstone circuit

Qualifying Results 2022 British F1 Grand Prix

Charles Leclerc driving the Ferrari F1-75 at Silverstone

Weather: wet  14.8°C
Tarmac: wet  20.4°C
Humidity: 86%
Wind: 2.7 m/s NW
Pressure: 999.7 bar

Carlos Sainz qualified his first ever pole position today for tomorrow's British Grand Prix. It was the 237th pole for Scuderia Ferrari.

Q1 session

Unexpected rain showers made it a wet qualifying session and all teams had fitted their cars with intermediate tyres to get in a banker lap. Both Alpine drivers Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon didn't, because weather predictions showed it would get dry soon.

After 5 minutes Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc topped the timesheet with a 1:42.129 min. He was a lot quicker than Max Verstappen who was second on +0685 sec. in the Red Bull. Lando Norris was third in the McLaren on +0.811 sec.

With seven minutes to go the track got dryer as the cars had sucked out a lot of water and George Russell in the Mercedes got sheered on, when he topped the timesheet. A few moments later Verstappen even got 1.2 sec. faster than Russell.

The drivers in the drop zone 5 minutes before the of Q1 were: Lance Stroll (Aston Martin), Sebastian Vettel (Aston Martin), Yuki Tsunoda (AlphaTauri), Daniel Ricciardo (McLaren) and Mick Schumacher (Haas). In the end Tsunoda and Ricciardo made it into Q2, while both Aston Martins again didn't go quick enough.

Q2 session

It still rained at the start of the fifteen minutes long Q2 and it didn't looked like it would be dry soon. Hamilton was complaining on the radio about his tyres that generated a lot of vibrations. After all drivers had clocked a lap time, it was Verstappen again who drove the quickest lap time with a lap time of 1:41.486.

The rain intensified and Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz had not got op to speed and was on P14. With five minutes to go the drivers in the elimination zone were: Pierre Gasly (AlphaTauri), Valtteri Bottas (Alfa Romeo, Tsunoda, Ricciardo and Ocon. Because the conditions got worse, no one improved enough to get into Q3, while Nicholas Latifi made it into Q3 in the "old" Williams for the first time this season.

Q3 session

All cars got out as fast as they could, because the weather predictions showed again it would get wetter later in the last session. During his first lap Verstappen had a great 360 spin coming out of Stowe. He was flying and even was able to clock a 1:51.332 min which was 8th fastest.

Qualifying Results 2022 British F1 Grand Prix

Max Verstappen driving the Red Bull Racing RB18 on track during qualifying ahead of the F1 Grand Prix of Great Britain at Silverstone on July 02, 2022 in Northampton (Photo by Clive Rose/Getty Images)

With five minutes to go Leclerc still was on pole with a 1:44.844 min, but the track got dryer now and faster because of that. Verstappen was soon topping the timesheet with a 1:42.996, Hamilton was second (+0.2s) and Russell was third.

In the last minute it was first Sainz who got pole, followed by Leclerc for 10 seconds and then Verstappen got it back again. In the last possible lap Verstappen and Leclerc didn't improve enough, as Leclerc also spun. Sainz did improve and scored his maiden pole position after 150 races.

Last year the quickest lap time in qualifying was a 1:26.023 min. It was driven by Max Verstappen in the Red Bull during Q2.

Qualifying Times 2022 British GP

PosNoDriverTeamQ1Q2Q3Laps
155Carlos SainzFerrari1:40.1901:41.6021:40.98325
21Max VerstappenRed Bull1:39.1291:40.6551:41.05523
316Charles LeclercFerrari1:39.8461:41.2471:41.29825
411Sergio PérezRed Bull1:40.5211:42.5131:41.61626
544Lewis HamiltonMercedes1:40.4281:41.0621:41.99523
64Lando NorrisMcLaren1:41.5151:41.8211:42.08426
714Fernando AlonsoAlpine1:41.5981:42.2091:42.11623
863George RussellMercedes1:40.0281:41.7251:42.16123
924Zhou GuanyuAlfa Romeo1:40.7911:42.6401:42.71928
106Nicholas LatifiWilliams1:41.9981:43.2732:03.09524
1110Pierre GaslyAlphaTauri1:41.6801:43.70219
1277Valtteri BottasAlfa Romeo1:41.3961:44.23220
1322Yuki TsunodaAlphaTauri1:41.8931:44.31119
143Daniel RicciardoMcLaren1:41.9331:44.35518
1531Esteban OconAlpine1:41.73017
1623Alex AlbonWilliams1:42.07811
1720Kevin MagnussenHaas1:42.15911
185Sebastian VettelAston Martin1:42.6669
1947Mick SchumacherHaas1:42.70811
2018Lance StrollAston Martin1:43.43010

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6 F1 Fan comments on “Qualifying Results 2022 British F1 Grand Prix

  1. shroppyfly

    I thought the c4 guys were going to have a heart attack in Q3 lol, ah British weather, that's 2 out of 2, rain tomorrow as well?

    410K attendance over 3 days thats massive

    Nothing to fear yet from The Dame then... in a wet Q3 still 1 second off the pace, timing was everything in Q3 , and we found out something we never knew, Max is an excellent ballet performer top notch pirouette. lot of big names did not perform again...

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    • ReallyOldRacer

      Great call on the weather a couple days ago, Shrop', and as I said, 0 Brits on the podium tomorrow. Oh wait, I didn't say that?

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      • shroppyfly

        I knew it would pay off, all those hours of watching the female weather presenters on TV ( purely for admiring there presenting skills you understand ) hehehe .

        AM are slowly turning into an embarrassment for the Brits, massive investment by Papa stroll in the AM facilities, but Seb does not look happy at all .

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        • Donalf

          Yes shropp, once more I agree with you, they have a way of coming across with the weather any way back to racing, not much to say except that I'm really looking forward to the race today & can't wait for the start but case of having to, really good line up at the front which should make it nail biting, not to fussed who wins today but would love to see George in the mix.
          Oh! and who did you you race for Ror?

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  2. Jere Jyrälä

    I’m happy for Sainz, although race pace is another matter.
    Latifi did well until Q3, although he apparently had some damage.

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