2014 British Grand Prix

The 2014 British Grand Prix (formally the 2014 Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix ) was a Formula One motor race held on 6 July 2014 at the Silverstone Circuit in Silverstone , United Kingdom before a crowd of 122,000 people. It was the ninth round of the 2014 Formula One World Championship , and the 65th British Grand Prix to be held as part of the series. Lewis Hamilton of the Mercedes team won the 52-lap race, from a sixth position start. Williams driver Valtteri Bottas finished second, w...

Rosberg's non-finish left him with a reduced lead of four points over Hamilton in the Drivers' Championship . Ricciardo and Fernando Alonso of Ferrari maintained third and fourth respectively, and Bottas passed Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel for fifth. In the Constructors' Championship , Mercedes held a 158-point lead over Red Bull and Ferrari was third. Williams overtook Force India for fourth with ten races left in the season.

After the Austrian Grand Prix two weeks earlier, Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg led the Drivers' Championship with 165 points , ahead of his second-placed teammate Lewis Hamilton with 136 points. Daniel Ricciardo of the Red Bull team was third with 83 points, and Ferrari 's Fernando Alonso followed close behind in fourth with 79 points. Sebastian Vettel , in the second Red Bull car, was fifth with 60 points. [ 6 ] Mercedes led the Constructors' Championship with 301 points with Red Bull second wit...

After a series of errors in the previous four rounds left Hamilton 29 points behind Rosberg, the Mercedes non-executive chairman Niki Lauda suggested this would motivate Hamilton to perform better at the British Grand Prix and saw no reason to guide him in his driving, "Lewis will fight back, there is no worry on my case about this at all. He is not in any way disturbed. He will keep fighting. Don't worry." [ 7 ] Valtteri Bottas said Williams intended to run well at Silverstone and sought to bui...

Hamilton used soft compound tyres to record the fastest lap of the second session with an early time of 1 minute, 35.508 seconds; his running was curtailed because his engine cut out with 1 ⁄ 2 an hour to go. Rosberg, Alonso, the Red Bull pair of Ricciardo and Vettel, Bottas, Button, Magunssen, Räikkönen and Vergne rounded out the top ten. [ 19 ] A localised explosion tore through the left-hand side of Bottas' engine cover and loosened it with five minutes to go. Vergne's left-front wheel detach...

Sergio Pérez in seventh ran wide at Chapel turn and lost heat in his tyres. Eighth-placed Ricciardo did not anticipate the improvement in track conditions and he remained in the pit lane. The Toro Rosso duo of Kvyat and Vergne were ninth and tenth. Grosjean was the fastest driver not to advance to the final session, because a yellow flag at Brooklands corner required him to slow. Marussia fuelled their cars for the second session and its reaction to the changing weather saw Bianchi qualify 12th ...

The fastest lap in each of the three sessions is denoted in bold .

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The weather at the start was dry and sunny with the air temperature between 17 and 19 °C (63 and 66 °F) and the track temperature from 33 to 39 °C (91 to 102 °F); [ 36 ] no rain was forecast. [ 37 ] The 52-lap race began before 120,000 people at 13:00 local time, [ 4 ] [ 38 ] with Rosberg making a brisk start to hold the lead into Abbey corner. Vettel in second had a slow start and Button and Magnussen passed him. [ 39 ] Hamilton moved from sixth to fourth as Massa stalled from 15th. [ 40 ] [ 41...

Räikkönen ricocheted across the track and into the path of Kobayashi and Massa. [ 42 ] Kobayashi grazed the front of the Ferrari and veered onto the grass; Massa applied the brakes upon seeing the impact, trying to spin to the right to avoid a T-bone collision . The rear of Massa's car made contact with the front of Räikkönen's. [ 42 ] [ 43 ] [ 45 ] A track marshal assisted Räikkönen, who had hip and heel injuries, out of his car and into an ambulance for transport to the circuit's medical centr...

Both Red Bulls switched to the hard-compound tyres on the grid during the stoppage and Alonso used the softer compounds to improve the possibility of making a solitary pit stop by driving on the more durable harder tyres later on. Rosberg was first, followed by the McLarens of Button and Magnussen. [ 40 ] Bottas overtook Kvyat at Brooklands corner to move into ninth and Hamilton began to challenge Magnussen for third. [ 41 ] On lap three, Hamilton drew alongside Magnussen through Woodcote turn a...

On lap eight, Alonso used DRS to pass Hülkenberg on the outside at Brooklands turn after a short battle. [ 39 ] [ 40 ] [ 41 ] Further back Sutil passed Bianchi for eleventh as Ricciardo battled Hülkenberg for eighth at Luffield turn on lap ten but could not pass due to the latter's higher straight-line speed. Ricciardo tried again into Stowe corner and succeeded. [ 41 ] On the inside at Club turn on the same lap, Gutiérrez attempted to pass Maldonado, who sought to overtake Bianchi. Gutiérrez hi...

By the 14th lap Bottas had caught Magnussen, and entering Stowe corner used his DRS and better speed to pass him on the outside for fourth. [ 40 ] Alonso overtook Magnussen around the outside of Stowe corner for fifth as Ricciardo made a pit stop for the soft compound tyres on lap 15. [ 41 ] Two laps later, Bottas passed Button at Stowe turn for third. [ 37 ] [ 39 ] On that lap, Ricciardo passed Sutil on the approach to Stowe corner for ninth. [ 41 ] Rosberg made his first pit stop from the lead...

At the podium interviews, conducted by double British Grand Prix winner David Coulthard , [ 48 ] Hamilton said that his weekend had demonstrated perseverance: "Yesterday wasn't a case of giving up, I didn't think I could do the lap, I was really shocked that the last sector was so fast. But coming here today I had my family with, just focused, the support from the fans, as I said, just spurred me on, and I really couldn't have done it without them." [ 49 ] Bottas said he was enjoyed to pass othe...

Räikkönen was declared fit for the following German Grand Prix , and said he felt the crash was not his largest and hoped to avoid such incidents in the future. [ 50 ] Mercedes non-executive chairman Niki Lauda claimed that the delay to repair the damaged wall was too long, unnecessary, and an over-regulation by Formula One. "This over-nursing of F1, being over cautious, over-controlling and over-regulating, drives me mad. This little guardrail issue is another example. There are too many people...

Alonso told the press he expected to lose the battle with Vettel because his car's rear-wing aerodynamic deficiencies led it to not operate correctly, and Ferrari contemplated retiring him. "Vettel overtook me by going out of the track. He finished in front, but I was very proud of my 13 laps. If he had not passed me on the lap he did it would have been the next one because we were in slow motion and they were at real speed." [ 54 ] Vettel described a series of radio transmissions where he compl...

The result reduced Rosberg's Drivers' Championship lead to four points over Hamilton. Ricciardo's third-place finish increased his points tally over fourth-place Alonso to eleven and Bottas' second-place finish advanced him past Vettel and from seventh to fifth. [ 6 ] In the Constructors' Championship, Mercedes maintained its lead with 326 points; their advantage over Red Bull remained at 158 points. Ferrari stayed third while Williams overtook Force India for fourth with ten races left in the s...

Drivers who scored championship points are denoted in bold .