Silverstone Friday analysis:Red Bull ahead and it’s very close behind

As expected Red Bulls were fast in Silverstone but the other teams are not far behind, McLaren seemed to have hidden their true pace or maybe the ‘Blown Diffuser exhaust’ not working well for them.

Red Bull were fast I the morning with Sebastian Vettel and in the afternoon Mark Webber was the fastest, the RB6 seemed very fast on different fuel loads and in the top speed they were up there as well which means their F-DUCT is working well as well.

Ferrari were off the pace in the morning maybe they were testing the car for the race or doing some development to the car as team boss Stefano Domenicali said:

With in-season testing banned, Fridays take on a dual function - preparing the cars for qualifying and the race and the development of new solutions for the short and medium term - and today we completed both phases.

Stefano Domenicali

In the afternoon Ferrari were fast through the session with Alonso in second place and Massa fourth, Ferrari thinks the updated F10 from Valencia and the new parts they added to this race made the car fast. And both drivers aid the handling was improved.

McLaren were fast in the morning up with the Red Bull but in the afternoon their speed was gone, and we saw a lot of run off moments for Lewis Hamilton in the second session.

But McLaren definitely are hiding their true pace as their MP4_25 was very close to Red Bull’s RB6 in Turkey which is very close Silverstone in terms of Performance needs:

We spent both sessions running with the new components. I definitely feel we’ve made a step forward from the last race. This circuit is a bit like Barcelona, where we were one second behind Red Bull - I don’t think we’ll be seeing that sort of gap tomorrow though, hopefully.

Lewis Hamilton

Mercedes might be faster than Renault in this track as both Micheal Shumacher and Nico Rosberg were fast today, Mercedes might be up with Ferrari and McLaren in this race.