Liam Lawson said Racing Bulls’ tyre management has been “very, very positive” after finishing sixth at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. Lawson said: "It was a good race, it was good from start to finish, honestly. We had a good first lap, and then the second-half of our stints was really strong, and our tyre management was really strong. It has been for the last couple of weeks, which has been very, very positive."

George Russell says he cannot fight for the Formula 1 world championship unless his performances improve, despite finishing second at the British Grand Prix to cut teammate Kimi Antonelli’s lead to 25 points. Russell said: "If I want to fight for the championship the performances need to be better, I need to work better with my team, we need to be maximising everything in a close fight now with Ferrari. It needs to be improved... Whether the luck is balanced out or not I'm not sure, however based on my performances and his [Antonelli's] performances I think a 25-point gap in his favour is probably correct. He has done a better job to this point."
Lando Norris said McLaren’s car is “maybe one of the hardest” he has driven in Formula 1 after describing the British Grand Prix as “pretty shocking” despite finishing fourth. Norris said: "The pace was pretty poor, so it's not nice. It's not a nice car to drive. [It is] maybe one of the hardest cars I've ever driven in F1. So there are many things we need to do better."

Oscar Piastri said there is a "massive element of luck" to overtaking under the current Formula 1 rules, after the British Grand Prix sprint and race were largely shaped by battery deployment and use of the boost button. Piastri said: "When you're racing four people, especially on the first few laps, there's such a massive element of luck now, because what I had in the sprint, especially with how the boost button works now, you have to commit so early to using the boost button. I used it, caught George [Russell] massively in the straight, but too close to the corner, so I had to brake. So this was a whole bunch of energy for no reason."
Colton Herta says he feels a Formula 1 car has more similarities to IndyCar than the Formula 2 car, as he continues to adapt in his rookie F2 season. Herta said: "I would say the F2 car kind of stands alone in its driving style and what it needs, especially compared to the F1. There has been a full overhaul that has to go through the mind and the learning process, where you have to learn the tracks, but then kind of understand what I need to be doing inside the car while at these tracks to get the most out of the car for lap time. I would say what I've learned from IndyCar, there's not many rewards for it. The good thing is I think in Formula 1 there is a lot more similarities."
Kimi Antonelli said he stayed out in the British Grand Prix with a car problem because he wanted to show the right “mindset” and keep fighting for a point, after Mercedes suggested he pit to retire. Antonelli said: "I just showed that I have the mindset that I try every time I go on track. I do my best, I try to give everything, and despite things that were already going against us, I saw there was the possibility to get one point, and I was just trying my best to achieve that."

Adrian Newey was spotted inspecting Charles Leclerc’s race-winning Ferrari SF-26 on the grid ahead of the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, with Newey appearing to focus on the rear-left area of the car. It followed Newey also being seen looking over the championship-leading Mercedes W17 on the sprint grid earlier in the weekend, taking advantage of the two separate grid walks offered by the Sprint format.



Lewis Hamilton said he would not have made a late safety-car pit stop at the British Grand Prix if he had known it would cost him second place to George Russell. Hamilton said: "The team asked me to stop. I assumed in stopping that we would be holding position. If they told me, 'You're stopping and you're losing position', I wouldn't have done it."

Fred Vasseur says Ferrari would make the same call to pit Lewis Hamilton under the late Safety Car at the British Grand Prix, despite the move leaving him behind George Russell when the race finished under neutralised conditions. Vasseur said: "You can discuss about Lewis, if it was the good call to pit. But if you don't pit, Russell pits, he's with new soft, and we are with old hards in front of him, and we are taking the risk. Also, we were a bit surprised that the Safety Car could stay so long, and we were expecting a restart, and I think we can discuss at length about the call. But if I have to do it now, I will do the same."

The FIA is considering ending F1’s current customer power unit model from 2031 by offering an off-the-shelf third-party engine supply to “B-teams”, as part of a push towards cheaper, simpler V8 regulations. The idea is framed as a way to reduce the leverage engine manufacturers can have over smaller teams’ voting and alliances. FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem told British newspapers at Silverstone, via Reuters: “If it is affordable, then we will have one engine for the rest of the B-teams, so nobody can leverage them and tell them to ‘vote this way’.”





Lewis Hamilton kept his British Grand Prix podium after the stewards decided not to issue a post-race time penalty for an alleged yellow-flag infringement when Nico Hulkenberg stopped with a gearbox failure. Hamilton avoided a time penalty because the stewards judged he had very limited warning of the yellow flag. He entered the sector before any yellow flag or light panel was shown, the steering wheel alert appeared only briefly near the end of the zone, and his attention was understandably on his mirrors after battling Verstappen. Although he did not slow enough to fully comply, the stewards decided the circumstances made a reprimand the appropriate penalty, allowing him to keep third place.

Charles Leclerc says he tried to block out the “negativity” around him and never doubted his ability after winning the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. Leclerc said: "I don't know if it fuels me. Honestly, I think anybody that says that would lie. I think whenever there's so much negativity around, it's not something so nice to see. You try to cancel the noise as much as possible. My job was really to just try and cancel that noise, to not look at anything, to not listen to anything. And I know that I didn't become a bad driver from one day to the other."

Christian Horner says Red Bull’s power unit department has done “incredibly well” after an FIA ruling under the ADUO (Additional Development and Upgrade Opportunities) system judged the team’s 2026 combustion engine to be the strongest in the field. Horner said: "It was a collective effort, and I think it's underestimated what they've actually done. To have an engine ahead of Ferrari, ahead of Honda, ahead of Audi, ahead of even Mercedes - nobody thought that was possible."

Kimi Antonelli says Mercedes still have momentum after technical problems and a track-limits penalty left him 15th in the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. Antonelli said: "I think we lost a lot of points. But the momentum is there because I think this weekend we showed the speed. We showed what we are capable of, so I think that the momentum is still there, and actually it makes the fire grow even more to go out there in Spa and try to do even better."

Lando Norris jokingly considered whether he could take the chequered flag via the pitlane under the late Safety Car at the British Grand Prix, asking McLaren on the radio: “You’re not allowed to box are you? You can’t win it in the pit lane?” Race engineer Will Joseph replied: “No, you’re not,” with Norris responding: “Shame.” Norris finished fourth and admitted McLaren’s pace was poor, saying the car “wasn’t very nice in any way whatsoever today” and “we have a lot to improve”.



Oscar Piastri said the British Grand Prix start felt like a “multi-class race” because drivers were using different power deployment modes under this year’s regulations, after opening-lap contact broke his front wing and left him recovering to 11th. Piastri said: "Lap one on these kind of circuits is just carnage, it's almost like a multi-class race start. I was trying to overtake Lindblad, and I seemed like I had more power than him. Lawson then passed me, who seemed like he had even more power than me, and it's just a mess. You're trying to judge your speed to the car in front of you, look at the car behind you."








Red Bull team principal Laurent Mekies said Max Verstappen was right to be unhappy after spinning into the Stowe gravel trap four laps from the end of the British Grand Prix. Mekies said: "Look, he's right not to be happy. It is very unpleasant for drivers to be let down by the car in high-speed corners in two consecutive races, let it be for two different reasons. So he's right to be unhappy. I have no doubt that, as a team, we will put in place what is necessary for that not to happen again, even if we failed to do that today."

Lance Stroll collected three separate five-second penalties for track limits at the British Grand Prix, triggered after he had already reached the maximum of three warnings. The infringements came on laps 33, 35 and 42, with the stewards noting each time that he left the track “without a justifiable reason”, taking his total time penalties to 15 seconds. Stroll finished last of the 19 classified runners and said: “We had a lot of understeer during the race and a very unpredictable car, so it’s hard with track limits.”


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