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F1: British GP Team-By-Team Report
Written by: Adam Cooper   http://www.speedtv.com
06/23/2009
Silverstone (GBR)
 
SPEEDtv.com's Adam Cooper reviews the 2009 Formula One British Grand Prix at Silverstone...

Ferrari
Like several other teams Ferrari struggled to get its tires to work properly in the cool temperatures at Silverstone. Kimi Raikkonen qualified only ninth, while Felipe Massa didn’t even make it into Q3 and started 11th. That at least allowed him to take on a heavy fuel load for the race. Ferrari was the only team using KERS, and both men benefited at the start. Massa got up to eighth and then by running until lap 22 jumped to fifth, before taking fourth from Rosberg at the second stops. Kimi was fifth in the first stint but got blocked by Trulli in the middle of the race, and thus he slipped back to eighth.

Silverstone was yet another nightmare weekend for Lewis Hamilton and the McLaren team. (Photo: LAT Photographic) ยป More Photos
McLaren
It was another nightmare weekend at home for Lewis Hamilton and the McLaren team. A red flag in Q1 cost Hamilton his last lap, and he was stranded in 19th on the grid, while Heikki Kovalainen at least made it through to start 13th. Lewis gained several places in the early laps before getting stuck in a fight with Kubica and Alonso. After a spin he eventually finished 16th. Heikki started with a heavy one-stop fuel load and had moved up well until damage from a collision with Bourdais ended his race after 36 laps. Not since 1981 has the team gone through four weekends without scoring a single point...

BMW
BMW had another poor weekend, suffering throughout from a struggle to get the tires up to temperature. Robert Kubica qualified 12th, while Nick Heidfeld was three
places behind in 15th. The German damaged his front wing endplate on the first lap, and that badly compromised his pace and saw a train of cars build up behind him. After getting a new nose at his first stop he finished where he started in 15th. Kubica started with a heavy one-stop load, and after struggling early on he actually dropped a place to finish 13th.

Renault
Fernando Alonso made it to Q3 and qualified 10th, while Nelson Piquet was back in 14th. Alonso’s chances were ruined at the start when he dropped two places and was one of many drivers to get stuck behind the slow Nick Heidfeld in the first stint. A relatively low fuel load meant he lost ground to others at the first stops, and he eventually finished a lowly 14th. Piquet also lost ground at the start but the team was able to switch him to a one-stop strategy, and that helped him to jump Fernando and move up to 12th by the flag.

Toyota
As in Turkey Toyota was close to the front in qualifying, and Jarno Trulli started an excellent fourth while Timo Glock was a disappointed eighth. Trulli had a problem at the start and dropped down to seventh. Throughout the race he struggled for grip in the cool conditions, but he did a good job to hold up anyone else who got close to him. He was thus still seventh at the flag, albeit not very happy. Glock also lost some places at the start but by the final stint he had moved up to ninth, finishing behind Raikkonen but only just ahead of Fisichella’s flying Force India.


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