ROUND 11: 🇬🇧 Great Britain
FORMULA 1 PIRELLI BRITISH GRAND PRIX 2026
Weekend Schedule
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- Practice 1: Friday, 13:30 CEST | 12:30 BST
- Sprint Qualifying: Friday, 17:30 CEST | 16:30 BST
- Sprint: Saturday, 13:00 CEST | 12:00 BST
- Qualifying: Saturday, 17:00 CEST | 16:00 BST
- Race: Sunday, 16:00 CEST | 15:00 BST
Circuit stats & Tyres
- First Grand Prix: 1950
- Number of laps: 52
- Circuit Length: 5.891 km
- Race Distance: 306.198 km
- Lap record: 1:27.097 Max Verstappen (2020)
- 2025 Pole: Max Verstappen (1:24.892)
- 2025 Fastest Lap: Oscar Piastri (1:29.337)
- 2025 winner: Lando Norris
- Pirelli Tyres: C1 (Hard) ⚪, C2 (Medium) 🟡, C3 (Soft) 🔴
He came in so fast, they didn’t know what was wrong
It’s still so weird to me, Kimi says something fundamental is wrong and they’re like “I guess we’ll change front wing 🤷♀️”. I am not an engineer or aerodynamicist but I don’t understand what that would fix in this case.
They just do it because it doesn’t hurt. The car will stand there for at least a couple of seconds so why not? What if they realize after 5 seconds that it was the front wing? Better start changing it as soon as possible.
Gives a little time to do visual inspection on the front suspension too! You only have a few tools in the toolbox with a ridiculously vague problem statement so might as well try a few things to maybe not have to come back in
A front wing change typically adds 10-12 seconds to a pit stop.
Yes, but how likely is it that they find and fix the unknown issue in less than 10 seconds? It’s really unlikely that changing the front wing will hurt.
It looked weird to me as it looked a lot like “fuck it we don’t know what’s wrong, let’s change the front wing and hope for the best”, but in the context of wanting to do a quick inspection of the car (taking longer than a normal pitstop) I guess changing the front wing at the same time doesn’t hurt yeah.