Red Bull Racing drivers have shown the best time in Saturday morning practice the British Grand Prix marked by numerous errors due to heavy rain. 

Reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel drove his best lap of 1.52,522 shortly after the middle hour session, ahead of one-tenth of his team-mate Daniel Riccardo.

 

Mercedes drivers does not show time, although leaving the pits. While Lewis Hamilton was a very unpleasant episode in turn Stowe, almost ended failure.

 

Pastor Maldonado has brought to Lotus an unexpected result of the third, and his partner Romain Grosjean emphasized good form team in the wet, with second gap closing the quartet’s strongest.

 

They were followed by Sauber driver Adrian Sutil and Daniil Kvyat of Toro Rosso. While Russian drove the greatest distance – 15 laps.

 

At the last minute Jules Bianchi flew to Stowe and crashed the car on the fence, though not very strongly.

 

It is expected that the rain will continue until qualifying, although its intensity varies over time, so that the teams will probably have to choose the right moment to check out on the track.

 

Results:

 

Pos. Car Driver Team Laps Time Gap
1 1 Sebastian Vettel GER Red Bull Racing – Renault 6 1:52,522
2 3 Daniel Ricciardo AUS Red Bull Racing – Renault 6 1:52,631 + 0,109
3 13 Pastor Maldonado VEN Lotus – Renault 10 1:53,044 + 0,522
4 8 Romain Grosjean FRA Lotus – Renault 6 1:53,566 + 1,044
5 99 Adrian Sutil GER Sauber – Ferrari 12 1:53,585 + 1,063
6 26 Daniil Kvyat RUS Toro Rosso – Renault 15 1:53,654 + 1,132
7 20 Kevin Magnussen DAN McLaren – Mercedes 5 1:53,911 + 1,389
8 22 Jenson Button GBR McLaren – Mercedes 6 1:54,041 + 1,519
9 77 Valtteri Bottas FIN Williams – Mercedes 4 1:54,217 + 1,695
10 7 Kimi Räikkönen FIN Ferrari 5 1:54,558 + 2,036
11 25 Jean-Eric Vergne FRA Toro Rosso – Renault 6 1:54,602 + 2,080
12 21 Esteban Gutiérrez MEX Sauber – Ferrari 13 1:54,761 + 2,239
13 19 Felipe Massa BRA Williams – Mercedes 4 1:55,003 + 2,481
14 27 Nico Hülkenberg GER Force India – Mercedes 6 1:55,688 + 3,166
15 11 Sergio Pérez MEX Force India – Mercedes 7 1:56,918 + 4,396
16 9 Marcus Ericsson SWE Caterham – Renault 10 1:57,091 + 4,569
17 17 Jules Bianchi FRA Marussia –  Ferrari 6 1:57,566 + 5,044
18 10 Kamui Kobayashi JAP Caterham – Renault 10 1:57,914 + 5,392
19 4 Max Chilton GBR Marussia –  Ferrari 1 No time
20 14 Fernando Alonso SPA Ferrari 4 No time
21 6 Nico Rosberg GER Mercedes 4 No time
22 44 Lewis Hamilton GBR Mercedes 5 No time

 

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