5 Memes summing up the British Grand Prix

The weather was typically British on race day. The race saw a wet, safety car start followed by a quick drying track in most areas except turn 1. With several run offs and struggling Ferrari’s, Lewis Hamilton dominated his home race blew the championship race wide open.

Nico’s misfortunes seem to be going from bad to worse after a late 10 second penalty demoted him to Third. Here we bring you 5 nemes that sum up the 2016 British Grand Prix:

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1. Carlos Sainz and Fernando Alonso both nearly touched the walls

By Lap 16, the Slicks were on. While most of the track was drying up fast, Turn 1 was troublesome.  Alonso and Sainz nearly kissed the walls as they spun out there. Luckily, both were able to rejoin the race without any further issue. The only one to touch the wall though, was Rio Haryanto in the Manor.

In fairness to them, they weren’t the only ones to spin off at turn 1, just the only ones who took comparatively longer to recover.

2.  By their standards, this weekend was a disaster for Ferrari.

In 2016, it seemed the Ferrari car might finally catch up to the Silver Arrows. So far, that hasn’t been the case. And the Wet British Grand Prix saw both drivers struggle, losing places in the first half of the race. This compounded Vettel’s problems even more, as he had a 5 place grid penalty to start off with.

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The only consolation for the team was Kimi’s 5th place finish, ensuring at least one driver scored double digit points. For Vettel, he had to settle with a lowly 9th place and a 5 second penalty for his move on Massa.

3. Max is establishing himself as the Number one driver at Red Bull

In their six races together, Max Verstappen, the 18 year old has now outscored his more established teammate, Daniel Riccardo, 77 to 64. This comes on the back of two consecutive podiums. Max was challenging Nico Rosberg for 2nd and earlier in the race, was able to defend himself in 2nd for a while, as Nico was charging to the front.

It’s 3 podiums for Max to the single podium of Daniel Riccardo.

4. Max’s podium gets sweeter

A late charge by Max Verstapapen towards the end of the race saw him finish 1.3 seconds behind Nico Rosberg. However, Mercedes gave Nico technical instructions over the radio to help him overcome his gear box issue, which is against the Radio restrictions. This led to the race Stewards giving Nico a 10 second time penalty. This promoted Max to second place after the race.

I hope they exchanged trophies at the very least.

5.  No one likes these starts anymore

We can agree that safety of the Drivers, Crews, Marshalls and fans are important. But the safety car starts kill the excitement that happens at the race starts. Not only does it lead to slow, boring waste of laps, the drivers cannot warm up their tyres and brakes at those speeds.

Lewis who was wanting the safety car in, nearly collided with his cars cousin, as he tried to bring his breaks up to temperature.

Maybe the FIA should seriously consider a delayed start over a safety car start.