The English Lando Norris (McLaren), winner this Sunday of the Grand Prix of Britain of Formula One, in the Silverstone circuit, declared: “It is wonderful, this is all that I dreamed, everything I wanted to get, apart from a championship.”
Norris, second in the F1 World Cup after his teammate, the Australian Oscar Piastri, who escorted him on the podium this Sunday, said in Dazn’s microphones: “It’s the best thing you can feel in terms of achievement and pride.”
“It has been an incredible and stressful career as always, but the support of the fans has meant all the difference,” said Bristol’s pilot, which this afternoon was imposed in the race that marks the 75th anniversary of the first Grand Prize played in the history of the Formula One World Cup, precisely in Silverstone.
“The race has been hard. As for stressful races, this is among the ones that,” said the English, moments before praising Pastri who was sanctioned with 10 seconds of penalty, as the commissioners estimated, harming their rivals, especially the Dutch Max Verstappen (Red Bull) by decelerating sharply when the race was resumed after the exit of a security car.
Verstappen: “The weather forecast changed during the night and did not favor us”
The Dutch pilot Max Verstappen (Red Bull), tetrampone of the world of formula one, indicated that the weather forecast for this Sunday in the Grand Prix of Great Britain “changed during the night” and did not favor him, after finishing in fifth position.
“Today has not been a great day. We did not think it was going to be so wet; the weather forecast changed during the night and did not favor us, so it was very difficult with the rear wing we had today,” he explained after the race.
As he acknowledged, he made a ‘spine’ with which he lost many positions in the resumption after the exit of the security car: “I don’t know very well what happened when I tried to step on the accelerator, but we recovered everything we could to get to the fifth place. Even after that happened, I kept going and the car had no rhythm, which was not great,” he continued.
In the positive, Verstappen stressed the success in the team’s career strategy with the maintenance of intermediate tires: “All decisions were correct, but intermediates were missing a little rhythm. Thus are the races, we will never be happy with a fifth place, but we go to the next race.”
Despite not finishing on the podium, the Dutchman already looks at the next Belgium Grand Prix: “Spa-Francorchamps is the following and my favorite in the calendar, so I hope we will go a little better there.”
British Lando Norris (Williams) pilot was the winner of the Grand Prix of Great Britain, followed by his teammate, the Australian Oscar Piastri, and the German Nico Hulkenberg (Kick Sauber), third.
A “sad and frustrated” Colapint could not take the exit in the GP of Great Britain
For his part, the Argentine pilot Franco Colapinto (Alpine) was defined as “sad and frustrated” after not being able to take the exit in the Great Britain Grand Prix, twelfth test of the Formula One World Cup, in which he had to start ultimately.
In a test held in the Silverstone circuit, which was marked by rain and the changes in the weather conditions that caused, together with the track departures, the intervention of four security cars, two of them virtual, the Pilar Corridor (Province of Buenos Aires) had to face technical problems in his vehicle that prevented him from taking part in the competition.
“I don’t know what happened, I have no idea. I couldn’t get out of box, mechanics are still studying to try to understand what happened. You have to work so that it does not happen again and focus on what is coming,” Collapinto told the press at the end of the test won by the Englishman Lando Norris (McLaren), ahead of his teammate, the Australian Oscar Piestri, leader of the World Cup.
Subsequently, in a brief statement, the Alpine team reported that the vehicle “had a problem with the transmission.”
Williams’s expilot said that, before the race, he was “happy with the balance” of the weekend, although, after Saturday’s training, he had been relegated to the twentieth position, from which he had to start this Sunday.
“With the rain and the intermediate tires, the car was going well, I was happy with the balance. Then I could not even leave (exit). I am sad and frustrated because I have finished the weekend, we had taken an important step forward. We had had many opportunities in the race,” he said before the media present in the Silverstone circuit.
Colapinto remarked that he would have “loved to be in the race and try something” and that he cannot take the exit “is something that no pilot wants.”
The Argentine, who debuted in Formula one in 2024 as a Williams pilot, faced his sixth Grand Prize in Silverstone from the return to the highest competition this season, after the season began as a test pilot in Alpine and last May he assumed ownership.
The Italian Flavio Briatore became the new team leader of the French team after the resignation of English Oliver Oakes, which led Collapint to the place then occupied by the Australian Jack Doohan to complete the team led by French Pierre Gasly.
With EFE information.
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