Andrea Stella: "We leave our home race with a 1-2 and a win at home for Lando, which is a fantastic result and a great reward for the hard-working men and women of McLaren, many of whom were in the stands to witness this achievement. With that said, the race was not a simple one, with changeable conditions and a penalty for Oscar which was difficult to take. We will look at that over the coming days and work to understand what could have been done differently. Oscar drove a fantastic race and made a great move for the lead of the race, and the team did well to calmly execute in difficult conditions.
"On Lando's side, he executed an excellent race. His pace was quick throughout the race, and we're pleased to have been able to win this special British Grand Prix with him. Our focus now turns to the final two races before the summer break, where we will look to score more wins and podiums.
"Thank you to all of the fans in the grandstands and events we've attended this week. Your support drives us forward and motivates us to keep pushing in this fascinating and exciting season of Formula 1."
Christian Horner: "Well, the race was exciting, it always is in those conditions. For us, we took a bit of a gamble with the weather, expecting a dry race and obviously when you have very low downforce in those conditions it is next to impossible. I think Max did really well, he stuck with it and he got unlucky at the restart. I'm not sure what happened with Oscar, but it put Max on the wrong part of the track and then he had the spin which put him down in the order. Once the circuit started to dry up, he managed to pick his way through the pack and it was a good recovery to P5. For Yuki, again it was a tough race. He couldn't get the pace and then the penalty, once again, left him in a hole that was unrecoverable. Not the result we were looking for but well done today to Nico Hulkenberg for finally making it onto the podium."
In an action packed British GP with rain shuffling the pack, Scuderia Ferrari HP drivers Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc finished fourth and 14th respectively. A handful of drivers including Charles came into the pits at the end of the formation lap to switch from Intermediate to Medium tyres, thus starting the race from the pitlane.
A virtual safety car was deployed on lap 2 when Liam Lawson's stopped on track after a collision. On lap 11, the rain intensified so Lewis pitted for a second set of Intermediates and Charles swapped back from Mediums to Inters as the Safety Car came out.
Conditions were extreme with standing water and poor visibility. Cars were sliding around, struggling to stay on track. The track began to dry out, but it was still too early for slicks, with those who made an early change having off-track excursions. In the closing laps Lewis tried to catch third placed Nico Hülkenberg but was unable to get close enough.
Fred Vasseur: That was a chaotic race for everyone from start to finish. I can imagine for the fans it was a good one. The conditions were changing so frequently that it was difficult to be on the right tyre at the right moment. The many Safety Cars also meant it was very difficult to predict what would come next. At the end of the race, you always feel you could have done much better in terms of strategy. Charles' gamble to switch immediately to slicks was a brave call and, if things had gone differently, it could have been the right one. Clearly, McLaren were much faster than us, but today we scored more points than Mercedes and Red Bull, which is positive, as is the fact that we were competitive all the way up to the final run in Q3, that our pace has improved considerably compared to earlier in the year and now we need to carry that performance level into the second half of the season. We will study this weekend's data to see why we struggled where we did. Now, the most important thing is that we make a further step forward in performance at the next race in Spa, that we put everything together to ensure we have a perfect weekend from start to finish.
Finally, congratulations to Nico on his first podium. Given his undoubted talent, he deserves it.
George Russell finished P10 whilst Kimi Antonelli retired in Sunday's British Grand Prix. In changeable conditions, there were several key decision points for the team to make which would dictate the outcome of the race.
The first came early on as the track dried following pre-race rain. Both George and Kimi pitted for the Hard slick tyre but unfortunately that dropped them back into the pack. Our duo switched back to the Intermediate tyre as heavy rain fell after 10 laps before several Virtual Safety Car and Safety Car interruptions brought racing to a halt.
After the action got back underway, Kimi was hit from behind by the Racing Bull of Isaac Hadjar who was unsighted by spray. The subsequent diffuser damage forced Kimi into an early retirement. George continued on and, having made it back into the points, he once again made an early switch to slicks as the track dried. After rejoining, he spun at Turn 10 and lost ground. He fought back into the top-10 but could only bring home a solitary point in P10.
Toto Wolff, Team Principal & CEO: We are all in this together and that was a poor performance all around from us today. We made successive decisions which weren't right, and we will be evaluating what we did, when, and why, to ensure we improve from this. We have to take this result on the chin but must make sure we do not repeat the errors we made today.
The first call to take the slick tyre on the formation lap was wrong. From there, we spiralled from bad to worse. We didn't opt to split strategies and, if we had, Kimi's race may have been different. He was unfortunate to suffer race ending damage after the Safety Car but he shouldn't have been back in the pack and at risk of that. We didn't fit the right dry tyre at either stop, opting for the Hard compound which suffered a challenging warm-up. All in all, that was a tough day and we need to bounce back in the final two races before the summer break.
Andrew Shovlin, Trackside Engineering Director: This was a very disappointing day for the team and a difficult end to a tough double-header. After starting P4 and P10, scoring a solitary point is significantly below our own expectations. George's race was shaped by the decision to take the dry tyre on the formation lap - it was a bit of a gamble, in hindsight a mistake, and it left us on the back foot for the rest of the race.
George drove strongly to recover ground on the first two stints, but when it came to the final stop, we aimed to leapfrog Gasly by stopping for dry tyres. We overestimated how ready the circuit was for them, however. George lost a lot of time as a result, including a spin through Becketts, and was only able to salvage a single point at the flag.
As for Kimi, we mirrored George's call for dry tyres after two laps, sacrificing track position as a result, and he was then blameless in the collision with Hadjar in the spray. This caused significant damage to the diffuser, and we took the decision to retire the car consequently. There is much for us to analyse and learn from today, and it is imperative that we do that work, regroup and deliver a much stronger weekend in three weeks' time in Spa.
Andy Cowell, CEO & Team Principal: "It was an intense and challenging afternoon in Silverstone with Lance and Fernando battling hard to score eight points between them [Lance P7 and Fernando P9]. We were fighting at the front, but our pace dropped off as the DRS was enabled and the track continued to dry. We probably switched Fernando to the dry tyres a bit too early, but he managed to recover to the points. Lance drove very well today: he didn't put a wheel out of place. Given the pace of the car, P7 is a great result. In these rainy races, you often reflect and see opportunities where you could have done things differently - and most teams probably feel the same - but we can be pleased to get both cars in the points at our home race."
Flavio Briatore: "It is a good result today for the team and a great drive by Pierre in difficult conditions. It is nice to score points at the team's home race, which is good for the whole team and the morale after some difficult races. With how we started the weekend, points didn't look possible, so well done to the team for turning it around. It's a pity about Franco's race, which ended before it even started after suffering a driveline issue. We have made up ground on Haas, RB, and Williams, while others have pulled away. The result from our rivals also gives us hope we can do the same and we will continue to push to improve on our position."
MoneyGram Haas F1 Team finished with Oliver Bearman 11th and Esteban Ocon 13th, at the British Grand Prix, held Sunday at Silverstone.
Bearman was due to start from 18th on the grid but pitted at the end of the formation lap to take on Pirelli P Zero White hard tires, re-joining the race from the pit lane. The British rookie came in again on lap 11, when a shower passed through the circuit, taking on Pirelli Cinturato Green intermediate tires, before the race was neutralized due to heavy rain.
The restart lasted only half a lap before proceedings were again held under the safety car after Isack Hadjar spun into the wall. Bearman took the restart in 14th but was tipped into a spin by Red Bull's Yuki Tsunoda, for which the Red Bull driver was penalized. Bearman stopped on lap 42 for Yellow medium tires and was able to continue after a collision with teammate Ocon. Bearman chased George Russell to the checkered flag - eventually finishing 11th.
Ocon took the start from 14th on intermediate tires and moved up to 13th position after contact with Liam Lawson on the opening lap, for which no further action was taken. Ocon moved into the top five as rain intensified before coming into the pits on lap 18, for more intermediate tires, the French racer re-joining in 16th position. Ocon pitted for medium tires on lap 43 and remained in the hunt for the top 10 before contact with teammate Bearman, dropping him to 13th place - which he retained through to the checkered flag.
MoneyGram Haas F1 Team holds ninth position in the Constructors' Championship on 29 points.
Ayao Komatsu, Team Principal: "I can't hide away from the fact that we executed a terrible race today, we have to be better. In terms of machinery, I think we have a good car now and it's really competitive. Whether it's competitive everywhere I don't know, but in Silverstone with the upgrade - all credit to the team that made this happen - we have a strong car, and we've proved that. Today, however, we didn't do justice to the car or the team, so there's a lot to learn from as a group. It's not just today, as a whole we need to focus on how we get a clean weekend together; we shouldn't be starting from P14 and P18 where we're then trying to force the result. We need to focus on executing three clean days on a race weekend and getting the result that our car deserves.
"On the incident with Ollie and Esteban today, well, our drivers' touching is the last thing that should happen - but I looked at the onboard of both drivers, I spoke with them both, and for me it was a racing incident. Again though, if you look at how they ended up in that situation, the pit stop timings for that stop were correct, so we pitted the lead car first. Ollie then went off in a high-speed corner, and that's why he was behind his team-mate when Esteban came out after his stop. As Ollie had hotter tires than Esteban, we went for the overtake, but we shouldn't have been in that position to start with. It just shouldn't happen, and when they had different speeds or strategies, we've been swapping them over, and they're complete team players - they don't argue, and they do the job straight away. It's a racing incident, but we'll make sure it doesn't happen again."
James Vowles, Team Principal: Firstly, congratulations to Sauber and to Nico - an extraordinary result today and well-earned in these difficult conditions. For us, we didn't expect it to stay as wet for that duration. The car was set up more for a dry race and you could see that. In Inter conditions and even when it was drying, we were poor. We were taken by Aston Martin and dropped back, but at the end of the race, Alex was flying and able to climb back, which shows the swing in our performance. We also didn't get the second Intermediate call right and that cost us many seconds. For Carlos, he did everything right, but it was out of his control when a Ferrari spun in front of him and he had to avoid it. It's a tough reflection on today - I was hoping for more points.
Now we go to Spa, where we've got an update coming that should give us a bit of an edge and help us fight back in that very tight midfield battle. Spa, like Silverstone, has tended to suit our car in the past, so let's reset and come back fighting. We have the pace to score points from here to the end of the year.
After a 17 year wait, McLaren has won its home race once again and it did it with an English driver, as was the case the last time: in 2008, first past the chequered flag was Lewis Hamilton and today it was Lando Norris' turn. The cherry on the cake for the team was Oscar Piastri's second place, taking McLaren's tally of one-two finishes to 54, the fifth this season. Today's win was Norris' eighth in Formula 1.
In his 239th Grand Prix, Nico Hulkenberg finished third to finally record his very first podium finish. It's the longest any driver has ever had to wait to get to the podium. This was Sauber's 11th podium in the sport, leaving out the period when it was in partnership with BMW. The previous time dates back to the 2012 Japanese Grand Prix, courtesy of a third place for Kamui Kobayashi.
There are so many meteorological cliches about the British Isles, such as "if you don't like the weather, wait ten minutes," or "four seasons in one day" and today Silverstone delivered a perfect example of that, with intermittent drizzle, light rain, overcast skies, sunny periods, heavy rain and fluctuating temperatures. The way today's Grand Prix panned out was very much down to the "English Weather, with alternating wet and dry conditions creating the scenarios for four of the five types of Pirelli tyre to come into play on track, the only exception being the Extreme Wet.
All the drivers were on Intermediates for the formation lap, but before the actual start, five drivers, Leclerc, Russell, Bearman, Hadjar and Bortoleto, decided to pit for slicks: the Monegasque, the Frenchman and the Brazilian opted for Mediums and the two English drivers went with Hards. Colapinto was also meant to start from pit lane on the hardest compound, but he had to retire immediately with a power unit problem. With rain due to arrive soon, but on a drying track, Stroll (Soft), Antonelli (Hard) and Bortoleto (Medium) also switched to slicks, but the rain came earlier than expected and those who had chosen to stick with the Intermediates had the advantage, apart from Aston Martin's Canadian driver, who made the most of the grip from the softest compound, albeit for just four laps.
The Intermediate did most of the work in the middle part of the race. The green-banded tyres worked well over very long stints, many of them well over half the race distance. Their pace was good, even when the track began to dry out, at least on the racing line. Towards the end, the conditions were right for slicks, with the Medium and Soft compounds performing best.
Mario Isola: "It's hard to imagine a better way to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Formula 1 than the weekend we have just witnessed. I reckon the half a million people who came to Silverstone over the four days had a great time, despite today's rain not making life easy for the spectators! Yesterday's qualifying was unpredictable and so too was today's race. Congratulations to McLaren for the one-two and to Nico Hulkenberg for his very first Formula 1 podium. It was unexpected but totally well deserved!
"For our part, on the technical front, just as happened here last year, four of the five types of tyre available came into play. It's a shame we didn't see the Extreme Wet in action, because it would have been interesting to gauge its performance level compared to the Intermediate, the compound that really shone today, proving to be competitive when there was a lot of standing water on track, as well as when the track was drying in the final stages of the race. Obviously, there was graining and significant wear, both down to the track conditions, but the drivers were able to control tyre use based on how the race unfolded.
"Our work at Silverstone is not yet over. On Tuesday and Wednesday, we will back on track, working with Sauber and Aston Martin in a development test session for the 2026 tyres. Gabriel Bortoleto will be behind the wheel for the Swiss team on both days, while Lance Stroll and Felipe Drugovich will share driving duties for the team based just a stone's throw from the circuit.
