F1: GP of United Kingdom (Silverston) - 2016

Nico Rosberg, Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen

Team Mercedes

Pos	Driver	Team	Laps
1	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes AMG Petronas	52
2	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes AMG Petronas	52
3	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	52
4	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing	52
5	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	52
6	Sergio Perez	Force India F1 Team	52
7	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India F1 Team	52
8	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Scuderia Toro Rosso	52
9	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	52
10	Daniil Kvyat	Scuderia Toro Rosso	52
11	Felipe Massa	Williams Martini Racing	51
12	Jenson Button	McLaren Honda	51
13	Fernando Alonso	McLaren Honda	51
14	Valtteri Bottas	Williams Martini Racing	51
15	Felipe Nasr	Sauber F1 Team	51
16	Esteban Gutiérrez	Haas F1 Team	51
	Kevin Magnussen	Renault Sport F1 Team	49
	Jolyon Palmer	Renault Sport F1 Team	37
	Rio Haryanto	Manor Racing MRT	24
	Romain Grosjean	Haas F1 Team	17
	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber F1 Team	11
	Pascal Wehrlein	Manor Racing MRT	6

* Nico Rosberg got 10 seconds added to his race time after Mercedes were deemed to have given him illegal assistance over team radio during Sunday’s race at Silverstone.

Drivers Classification

Pos	Driver	Nationality	Team	Points
1	Nico Rosberg	German	Mercedes	168
2	Lewis Hamilton	British	Mercedes	167
3	Kimi Räikkönen	Finnish	Ferrari	106
4	Daniel Ricciardo	Australian	Red Bull Racing	100
5	Sebastian Vettel	German	Ferrari	98
6	Max Verstappen	Dutch	Red Bull Racing	90
7	Valtteri Bottas	Finnish	Williams	54
8	Sergio Perez	Mexican	Force India	47
9	Felipe Massa	Brazilian	Williams	38
10	Romain Grosjean	French	Haas	28
11	Nico Hulkenberg	German	Force India	26
12	Carlos Sainz	Spanish	Toro Rosso	26
13	Daniil Kvyat	Russian	Toro Rosso	23
14	Fernando Alonso	Spanish	McLaren	18
15	Jenson Button	British	McLaren	13
16	Kevin Magnussen	Danish	Renault	6
17	Pascal Wehrlein	German	Manor	1
18	Stoffel Vandoorne	Belgian	McLaren	1
19	Jolyon Palmer	British	Renault	0
20	Esteban Gutierrez	Mexican	Haas	0
21	Marcus Ericsson	Swedish	Sauber	0
22	Felipe Nasr	Brazilian	Sauber	0
23	Rio Haryanto	Indonesian	Manor	0

Constructors Classification

Pos	Team	Points
1	Mercedes AMG Petronas	335
2	Ferrari	204
3	Red Bull Racing	198
4	Williams Martini Racing	92
5	Force India F1 Team	73
6	Scuderia Toro Rosso	41
7	McLaren Honda	32
8	Haas F1 Team	28
9	Renault Sport F1 Team	6
10	Manor Racing MRT	1
11	Sauber F1 Team	0

Lewis Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton, our British Grand Prix winner, for the fourth time in your career. Here you are again, soaking it all in, the adulation of the crowds – crowdsurfing even, a great moment there. How much did they lift you today and also was there just that one moment, when you went off at Abbey? You weren’t the only one to do that, but that was the only moment when you had your heart in your mouth or was it generally quite a tricky afternoon?

LH: That was definitely the only moment. It was quite a big moment. But ever since 2007 I’ve felt this incredible energy from these fans here, the best fans in the world, without a doubt, and the best crowd we have anywhere. I really feel like I’ve grown with them over the years and obviously, naturally, when you have success that speeds up the bond, that connection you have, but, yeah, they really do make a huge difference. Every time… when it was wet, every time I made it through certain corners I could see in the corner of my eye the fans right there with me. And obviously the last few laps I could see them, every time, every year, and every time I came through Brooklands, Turn 7, I can see them up shouting and that just spurred me on all the way. So a huge thank you to them. I’m very honoured and it’s a very humbling experience to be here in this sport, particularly in a time of difficulty in the world, and to see so much love out there. I think when you see… there are people out there from all walks, from all different places, poor, wealthy, going through difficult times, and on this day we come together and I think that’s as beautiful thing and I hope people see this on TV and I hope they tell their friends and they feel that to.

Nico Rosberg

Nico Rosberg

Nico, let’s drill down a little bit into the battle with Max. The two battles with Max: the one at the beginning of the race and the one at the end of the race.  He got you early on, you got him back later on. Tell us about those from your point of view.

NR: Yeah, it was a cool fight. On the Inters not so much of a fight, it was done pretty quickly and then on dry, yeah it was great. You’re playing around with your ERS deployment, I’m trying to get him to empty his battery so that then I can have a good shot – but then when his was empty mine was empty too. So that didn’t work! At times I was doubting, ‘am I going to make this happen or not?’ And then it worked out really well though in the end. He did a good job, defending and everything. It was cool.

Max Verstappen

Max Verstappen

And from your point of view Max, you said here yesterday, 24 hours ago, you’d be happy if you could be sitting here today in the same position – but you came pretty close to sitting one place further up – and who knows after the stewards have finished today you may be sitting one place further up. Tell us about the pass first of all into Becketts. 

MV: I think in general, first of all, on the Intermediates we had good pace but in the beginning I was struggling to have visibility because of the spray, especially in the first sector. I couldn’t really keep up because I couldn’t see where I was going! But once that cleared a bit I could push. I got past Nico around the outside, car had a lot of grip so you can make that move and from there on the pace was good. You don’t want to switch too early on a slick tyres so, yeah, that I had one guy in front of me, got blue flags but I could clearly see slick tyre was faster now. I pitted, maybe one lap too late but you just take it a bit safe and from there on the pace was pretty good. Lewis was not pulling away too much and from there on, yeah, Nico was pushing hard, giving me a hard time and we had some good fights into Stowe. At one point we were struggling a bit of course on the straights but he pulled off a great move around the outside and from there on I was just doing my own race. I had no pressure from behind, it was a very big gap. Soon I heard Nico had a problem. I tried to get past and tried to close the gap but once you get in the dirty air it’s difficult to get even closer on this track. I think in general we can be happy. We finished only eight seconds behind or something. I think in general the car was working really well the whole weekend so I have to say thank you to the team for giving me such a great car the whole weekend.

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