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F1: Heidfeld Celebrates Another Podium
Written by: Adam Cooper
RACER Magazine   http://www.racer.com/speedtv
07/06/2008 - 03:29 PM
Northamptonshire, UK
 
Heidfeld posted his third runner-up result of the year. (LAT Photo) ยป More Photos

Nick Heidfeld may have saved his BMW seat for next season after taking his third second place of the season with a brilliant drive at Silverstone.

Under severe pressure after being outperformed by Robert Kubica all season, Heidfeld was outrun only by Lewis Hamilton, having qualified fifth and passed Kimi Raikkonen for second on lap 27.

“I think second is a good result for today,” said Heidfeld. “Obviously Lewis was quite a bit quicker and from a certain point on in the race I was looking backwards rather than forwards. I think the important choice today for the teams and guys who got it right was the tyre choice, obviously. We were thinking about keeping the old inters on or switching to new ones. Luckily we took the decision to go on new inters and that was a good move.

“The biggest moment I actually had was when Bourdais and Barrichello passed me. I also didn’t try to fight them too hard because they were just so much quicker but as Lewis said earlier, you could not see them. You heard them, I saw a little bit in the spray and I just hoped that we would not crash because the difference in speed was so big but you can also not pull off line because there was so much standing water.

“Once before Abbey, they both got by and I just
backed off because I saw nothing and I knew there were some puddles somewhere and then I nearly spun because I didn’t see and there was a lot of standing water, so that was the biggest moment for me and I nearly lost it there.

“I think you could see during the whole race that there were different drivers quick at different times. In the beginning, I couldn’t hold Alonso. I think there you could quite clearly see which drivers are harder on the tyres and heat them up better. So a bit later he struggled when it got drier because his tyres were destroyed. Mine were still alive and that was why in certain phases I was pretty quick.”

Heidfeld is confident that his qualifying troubles are over.

“Obviously it’s impossible to look into the future, but at least since we’ve been working hard on it, have tested a couple of things and first introduced those at Magny-Cours, qualifying was OK. Here was OK, Magny-Cours was OK, still not perfect, there is some more potential to be extracted but at least I’m at a reasonable level now.”

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