Great Britain 2008: Race analysis

At a glance

Results

Pos	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap
1	Kovalainen	McLaren	1:19.957	1:19.597	1:21.049
2	Webber	Red Bull	1:20.982	1:19.710	1:21.554	+0.505
3	Räikkönen	Ferrari	1:20.370	1:19.971	1:21.706	+0.657
4	Hamilton	McLaren	1:20.288	1:19.537	1:21.835	+0.786
5	Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	1:21.022	1:19.802	1:21.873	+0.824
6	Alonso	Renault	1:20.998	1:19.992	1:22.029	+0.980
7	Piquet Jr.	Renault	1:20.818	1:20.115	1:22.491	+1.442
8	Vettel	Toro Rosso	1:20.318	1:20.109	1:23.251	+2.202
9	Massa	Ferrari	1:20.676	1:20.086	1:23.305	+2.256
10	Kubica	BMW Sauber	1:20.444	1:19.788		+0.251
11	Coulthard	Red Bull	1:21.224	1:20.174		+0.637
12	Glock	Toyota	1:20.893	1:20.274		+0.737
13	Bourdais	Toro Rosso	1:20.584	1:20.531		+0.994
14	Trulli	Toyota	1:21.145	1:20.601		+1.064
15	Nakajima	Williams	1:21.407	1:21.112		+1.575
16	Barrichello	Honda	1:21.512			+1.555
17	Button	Honda	1:21.631			+1.674
18	Rosberg	Williams	1:21.668			+1.711
19	Sutil	Force India	1:21.786			+1.829
20	Fisichella	Force India	1:21.885			+1.928

Gap to the fastest time in the last session the driver took part in. Yellow: fastest time of the session.

Pos	Driver	Team	Grid	Laps	Gap	Stops	Engine
1	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	4	60	1:39:09.440	2	Mercedes
2	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	5	60	+1:08.577	2	BMW
3	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	16	60	+1:22.273	3	Honda
4	Kimi RäikkönenFastest lap	Ferrari	3	59	+1 lap	2	Ferrari
5	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren	1	59	+1 lap	2	Mercedes
6	Fernando Alonso	Renault	6	59	+1 lap	2	Renault
7	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	14	59	+1 lap	2	Toyota
8	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams	15	59	+1 lap	2	Toyota
9	Nico Rosberg	Williams	PL	59	+1 lap	3	Toyota
10	Mark Webber	Red Bull	2	59	+1 lap	2	Renault
11	Sébastien Bourdais	Toro Rosso	13	59	+1 lap	2	Ferrari
12	Timo Glock	Toyota	12	59	+1 lap	2	Toyota
13	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	9	58	+2 laps	3	Ferrari
DNF	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	10	39	Spun off	2	BMW
DNF	Jenson Button	Honda	17	38	Spun off	2	Honda
DNF	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Renault	7	35	Spun off	1	Renault
DNF	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India	19	26	Spun off	0	Ferrari
DNF	Adrian Sutil	Force India	18	10	Spun off	0	Ferrari
DNF	Sebastian Vettel	Toro Rosso	8	0	Collision	0	Ferrari
DNF	David Coulthard	Red Bull	11	0	Collision	0	Renault

Starting grid vs qualifying

Rosberg Qualified 18, started PL

Penalties and pit lane starts. Everyone else moves up accordingly.

Race

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Places gained

Barrichello16→3+13
RosbergPL→9+11
Trulli14→7+7
Nakajima15→8+7
Hamilton4→1+3
Heidfeld5→2+3
Bourdais13→11+2
Alonso6→60
Glock12→120
Räikkönen3→4-1
Kovalainen1→5-4
Massa9→13-4
Webber2→10-8

PL: started from the pit lane. Retired drivers are listed below.

Fastest pit stops

1Trulli24.088R47
2Massa24.643R49
3Glock24.726R43
4Kovalainen25.595R34
5Hamilton25.638R38
6Heidfeld25.783R38
7Nakajima25.817R25
8Webber25.861R18
9Trulli25.926R26
10Räikkönen26.242R21

Time in the pit lane from entry to exit, in seconds.

Stints of the top 10

Hamilton2117222 stops
Heidfeld2216222 stops
Barrichello241111143 stops
Räikkönen219292 stops · +1 lap
Kovalainen1915252 stops · +1 lap
Alonso206332 stops · +1 lap
Trulli2621122 stops · +1 lap
Nakajima2510242 stops · +1 lap
Rosberg24115193 stops · +1 lap
Webber1810312 stops · +1 lap

Stint length in laps, worked out from the pit stops. Which tyre compound was used per stint needs a licence for timing data, so it is not shown here. Lapped drivers covered fewer laps, so their bar ends earlier.

Retirements

This race in history

41 races here since 1950Won from pole: 15 of 41

Win from furthest back (P7): Emerson Fittipaldi 1975

Most wins here

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Statistics: F1DB by Marcel Overdijk and contributors, licence CC BY 4.0, prepared by Hotlap Delta.

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