Qualifying Results 2019 British F1 Grand Prix
Top 3 qualifiers 2019 British F1 GP: 1. Bottas, 2. Hamilton, 3. Leclerc
Event: British Grand Prix
Track: Silverstone Circuit
Weather: Dry 19.4°C
Tarmac: 32.4°C dry
Humidity: 65.7%
Wind: 0.6 m/s SE
Pressure: 1005 bar
Valtteri Bottas won pole for tomorrow's 2019 British Grand Prix with only 0.006 sec to Hamilton on P2. It was the 10th pole of his F1 career and pole number 108 for the Mercedes F1 team.
It is the 1st time that Bottas scored pole on Silverstone and it was the 4th pole of the 2019 F1 season for the Finnish driver.
Q1
The weather in Q1 was dry, but big dark clouds were hanging above the circuit and everybody tried to set a lap time as quickly as possible. With 5 minutes to go we saw the usual suspects Romain Grosjean, Antonio Giovinazzi, Lance Stroll, Sergio Pérez, George Russel and Robert Kubica. At the end of the session Sergio Pérez and Romain Grosjean saved them self to get into Q2. It was a very tight qualifying session were the top 18 cars only were 1.8 sec apart!
Q2
Gasly, Verstappen, Leclerc, Hamilton and Bottas went out on the yellow tires to try and drive their quickest lap in Q2 and start tomorrow's race on the Medium tyres. With 10 minutes to go Leclerc was on P1 with a 1:25.646. Vettel was 8th fasest. Looks like Vettel healed at the end of his lap to try and drive his quickest lap on Medium tires also. With 5 minutes to go Alexander Albon, Sergio Pérez, Antonio Giovinazzi, Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean were nominated to be eliminated for Q1. Albon was the only driver to improve enough to get into Q1 instead of Carlos Sainz.
Q3
All 10 cars went out with both Mercedes drivers Hamilton and Bottas in front in the first stint. After the first timed lap Bottas came out quickest with a new pole record of 1:25.093 min. Hamilton had a moment at turn 6 which cost him and was 0.252 sec. Verstappen was surprisingly 3rd, Leclerc, 4th, Gasly 5th and Vettel 5th. The second stint was kicked off by Bottas who got out as first followed by Hamilton. The only driver that improved was Leclerc, who stole P3 from Verstappen.
The pole record at Silverstone was 1:25.892 min driven by Lewis Hamilton in last years qualifying session.
Qualifying Results 2019 British GP
| Pos | No | Driver | Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Laps |
| 1 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | 1:25.750 | 1:25.672 | 1:25.093 | 21 |
| 2 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1:25.513 | 1:25.840 | 1:25.099 | 17 |
| 3 | 16 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 1:25.533 | 1:25.546 | 1:25.172 | 18 |
| 4 | 33 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull | 1:25.700 | 1:25.848 | 1:25.276 | 21 |
| 5 | 10 | Pierre Gasly | Red Bull | 1:26.273 | 1:26.038 | 1:25.590 | 21 |
| 6 | 5 | Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | 1:25.898 | 1:26.023 | 1:25.787 | 19 |
| 7 | 3 | Daniel Ricciardo | Renault | 1:26.428 | 1:26.283 | 1:26.182 | 21 |
| 8 | 4 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 1:26.079 | 1:26.385 | 1:26.224 | 21 |
| 9 | 23 | Alex Albon | Toro Rosso | 1:26.482 | 1:26.403 | 1:26.345 | 24 |
| 10 | 27 | Nico Hülkenberg | Renault | 1:26.568 | 1:26.397 | 21 | |
| 11 | 99 | Antonio Giovinazzi | Alfa Romeo | 1:26.449 | 1:26.519 | 18 | |
| 12 | 7 | Kimi Räikkönen | Alfa Romeo | 1:26.558 | 1:26.546 | 18 | |
| 13 | 55 | Carlos Sainz | McLaren | 1:26.203 | 1:26.578 | 15 | |
| 14 | 8 | Romain Grosjean | Haas | 1:26.347 | 1:26.757 | 17 | |
| 15 | 11 | Sergio Pérez | Racing Point | 1:26.649 | 14 | ||
| 16 | 20 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas | 1:26.662 | 9 | ||
| 17 | 26 | Daniil Kvyat | Toro Rosso | 1:26.721 | 10 | ||
| 18 | 18 | Lance Stroll | Racing Point | 1:26.762 | 9 | ||
| 19 | 63 | George Russell | Williams | 1:27.789 | 9 | ||
| 20 | 88 | Robert Kubica | Williams | 1:28.257 | 10 |
Below you can see the epic qualifying lap of Valtteri Bottas that got him pole position with 0.006 sec. difference.
https://twitter.com/F1/status/1150067002503045120
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According to the above Robert Kubica is both 11th and 20th. Giovinazzi has disappeared. Hamilton has won the Drivers championship and Mercedes the constructors'. Makes the rest of the season pointless. And sadly 2020 as well as Mercedes will scoop all the loot.
Thanks for point that out. Don't forget. Nothing lasts forever...
The difference between VB and LH is 6/1000's of a second, anyone know what that means in distance (?inches)
@Ken, if I'm not mistaking the difference of 0.006 sec is in this case around 16 inch. But that's calculated with the average speed. It might be more or less depending on the speed they had on the start/finish straight.
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