Team radiopublished at 14:18 British Summer Time 8 July 2018
Lap 4/52
Kimi Raikkonen: "Is my front wing ok?
Ferrari race engineer: "All OK on our side."
Summary
Hamilton suffers collision after bad start - fights back to 2nd
Vettel wins, Raikkonen penalised for Hamilton collision
Hartley, Leclerc, Ericsson, Grosjean, Sainz, Verstappen out
Team radiopublished at 14:18 British Summer Time 8 July 2018
Postpublished at 14:18 British Summer Time 8 July 2018
Lap 4/52
Seems as if it was just wheel to wheel contact between Raikkonen and Hamilton...
'I said there might be fireworks'published at 14:17 British Summer Time 8 July 2018
Jolyon Palmer
Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 liveI said there might be fireworks! It was Raikkonen and Hamilton and it was a big hit, he is right to the back of the field immediately.
Image source, Getty ImagesPostpublished at 14:17 British Summer Time 8 July 2018
Jennie Gow
BBC Radio 5 live pit-lane reporterThe Mercedes crew were all ready but now they are going back in. They are not bringing Lewis Hamilton in just yet.
Team radiopublished at 14:17 British Summer Time 8 July 2018
Lewis Hamilton: "Right rear is damaged."
Race engineer: "Tyre pressure is fine but we will look into it."
Postpublished at 14:17 British Summer Time 8 July 2018
Lap 2/52
Brendon Hartley is retiring already - what a dreadful weekend it's been for him, with that crash in FP3 too, which forced him to miss qualifying.
Postpublished at 14:16 British Summer Time 8 July 2018
Lap 2/52
Sebastian Vettel leads from Valtteri Bottas after that extraordinary start. Hamilton in deep, deep trouble. Hamilton says the right rear is damaged. His team tell him it's fine. Blimey.
Postpublished at 14:15 British Summer Time 8 July 2018
Lap 1/52
Hamilton has fallen back to 18th - that's a shocker of a start! "I think my car's broken," says Hamilton over the team radio.
Image source, Formula 1 TwitterPostpublished at 14:14 British Summer Time 8 July 2018
Lap 1/52
Hamilton spins his wheels and Vettel goes through immediately - as does Raikkonen. And Hamilton is sent spinning!
British Grand Prix is gopublished at 14:13 British Summer Time 8 July 2018
Race 10 of the season; 52 laps ahead. It's Britain's big day in the F1 season - and we're off!
Image source, Formula 1 TwitterIt's going to be a GREAT British Grand Prixpublished at 14:13 British Summer Time 8 July 2018
Image source, Getty Images'There will be fireworks'published at 14:12 British Summer Time 8 July 2018
Jolyon Palmer
Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 liveI have a sneaky suspicion we are going to see some fireworks off the line here.
What's the strategy?published at 14:11 British Summer Time 8 July 2018
Andrew Benson
BBC Sport’s chief F1 writerStrategy? You guessed it, a one-stop. The quickest is soft-medium, with a pit stop around laps 16-20. Don’t expect to see much of the hard tyre.
Dan and Ham for Carrickpublished at 14:10 British Summer Time 8 July 2018
BBC Radio 5 liveFormer England midfielder Michael Carrick is here supporting his friend Daniel Ricciardo, but also wants Lewis Hamilton to do well.
He said: "For England it is Lewis, there is a lot of support for him here but with being friends with Daniel I would like him to do well."
Of course, we had to ask him for his thoughts about England reaching the World Cup semi-final, and he added: "We are all behind the boys and we hope they will do well. The great thing is there seems to be a real happiness and enjoyment within the team. Gareth Southgate has to take a lot of credit for that."
Postpublished at 14:10 British Summer Time 8 July 2018
Off they go on the formation lap...
Postpublished at 14:09 British Summer Time 8 July 2018
Michael Emons
BBC Sport at Silverstone
Image source, .Three fans, three different teams.
Kirtan Patel (middle) is supporting Ferrari, Nikhil Patel (right) is cheering on Williams and Virendra Narean is hoping for Mclaren glory.
Kirtan expects a crazy start saying there will be a first corner pile-up involving both Mercedes cars and both Red Bulls with the Ferraris coming out unscathed.
Virendra is predicting "a very good day for Alonso" and Nikhil is resigned to a tough day for Williams but also said "Ferrari have very good pace and will upset some British fans".
Postpublished at 14:09 British Summer Time 8 July 2018
The drivers are in their cars, and we're ready for the formation lap. Let's hope no one suffers the hydraulics failure that befell poor Jolyon Palmer a year ago...
Bottas hoping to make up groundpublished at 14:08 British Summer Time 8 July 2018
Andrew Benson
BBC Sport’s chief F1 writerValtteri Bottas was a little annoyed with himself after qualifying. He felt he would have joined Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton on the front row but for a mistake at Vale, where he lost 0.35secs. But he is hoping to make up for it in the race, where he expects a “close fight”.
Bottas said: "It’s not going to be easy to pass them, but we've seen overtaking on this track before, so there's still opportunity for more. We saw blistering last week in Austria, so keeping the tyres in good condition is going to be the key given the high temperatures. It is going to be a long and hot race, a tough battle, but I'm looking forward to it.”
'I don't think I've ever seen so many people here'published at 14:07 British Summer Time 8 July 2018
Lewis Hamilton had a pre-race chat with Sky Sports during the drivers' parade a little earlier.
He said: "I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many people here, it is incredible. It never gets old coming here.
“It was the hardest lap to have to pull out. It was so close with the Ferraris. I would have been much more comfortable with the gap I had last year."
'We are stronger and we can be faster'published at 14:05 British Summer Time 8 July 2018
Andrew Benson
BBC Sport’s chief F1 writer
Image source, Getty ImagesLewis Hamilton might not have been on pole position had Kimi Raikkonen not locked his wheel into Vale on his final lap.
The Finn was fastest in the final sector despite that, and in the first, but Hamilton’s pace in the middle sector kept him narrowly ahead.
And the error meant Raikkonen not only failed to beat Hamilton, but also his team-mate Sebastian Vettel. Errors in final qualifying are a consistent theme for the 2007 world champion - and have been ever since he returned to F1 in 2012. They’re part of why Ferrari have decided to go for Charles Leclerc next year, according to sources close to the team.
As for Vettel, his was a great effort considering an uncomfortable neck problem - which won’t have made life very pleasant through the 5G sweeps at Copse and Becketts. As for the race, the four-time champion said: “The race has always been better for us the last couple of races so I’m confident worth everything we have here this year. It seems we are stronger and I believe we can be faster.”