In the round-up: Oscar Piastri says Sergio Perez’s lack of points compared to team mate Max Verstappen helps McLaren.
In brief
Perez scoring low helping McLaren – Piastri
Perez’s low scoring in recent rounds compared to Red Bull team mate Max Verstappen “certainly helps our constructors’ championship bid,” McLaren driver Piastri said in response to a question from RaceFans.
“It has just been Max, really. Whenever you have two cars up the front versus one, it opens up some opportunities and is always good for point scoring. I think it’s just always a good thing to have.”
Gasly to run heavier Alpine again at Silverstone
Pierre Gasly says he will race the heavier of Alpine’s two chassis during this weekend’s British Grand Prix for the third consecutive weekend, with team mate Esteban Ocon having the lighter chassis.
“[Ocon’s] was actually lighter the last two weekends,” Gasly said in response to a question from RaceFans. “We swapped chassis after Canada, which was always the plan. And we’re going to be swapping that chassis around.
“There’s never been any weight issue – if anything, I started the season overweight the first six races. But that’s how it is. The team always tries to tackle this weight topic and make it as fair as possible. Sometimes it goes one way, sometimes the other.”
Bearman explains number choice
Oliver Bearman will race using the number 87 when he makes his grand prix debut next year. He was assigned the number 38 when he drove as a substitute for Carlos Sainz Jnr in Saudi Arabia.
“I didn’t get to choose my number in Jeddah,” said Bearman, who will race for Haas next year. “First of all, even if I did, that was the last of my worries!
“But, yeah, it’s the number that I’ve raced since the beginning. It’s a number that my dad raced with. I’m born on the 8th of May and my brother on the seventh of, August, so 87 was the number of choice and that would continue to be the case.”
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Hamilton not looking to buy Moto GP team
After reports that Lewis Hamilton was pursuing a purchase of the Gresini Moto GP team, the Mercedes driver and part-owner of the NFL’s Denver Broncos insists he is not actively looking to do so yet.
“I’ve always loved Moto GP,” Hamilton said. “I’m interested in the potential growth of the sport, but I haven’t looked that far into it just yet.
“But anything’s possible. I’m definitely interested in, as I said before, about equity and already with the Broncos, it was already a first step in team ownership. “So I think over the next five to 10 years, there’ll be hopefully more. We’ll see where.”
“No issues” for Marti over Hadjar team orders row
Pepe Marti insists he has no problem with Campos team mate and fellow Red Bull junior driver Isack Hadjar after Hadjar appeared to defy a team order at the end of last weekend’s F2 feature race to let Marti by after Marti had previously conceded his position to Hadjar.
“It’s fine,” Marti told media including RaceFans. “Obviously there was a little bit of a misunderstanding on the radio with team, but mostly it was just about I was under investigation for a penalty [for making pit stop under VSC], which I was aware of, but I was quite confident from my side that I been over the [Safety Car 1] line. And then it turned out to be wrong.
“Even though we spoke about the chance of maybe giving the position back before the last corner – or after the last corner as Franco [Colapinto] was already through – but with three laps to go, when you have a guy coming on super-softs who is obviously coming two or three seconds a lap faster, you want to protect the guy who is ahead. So it was quite clear and my issues are dealt with.”
Social media
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Checo’s Silverstone stunner 😍
📸 @vladimirrys #F1 || #BritishGP pic.twitter.com/gPYzLiSiwG
— Oracle Red Bull Racing (@redbullracing) July 4, 2024
Major, so excited for what’s to come
— Lewis Hamilton (@LewisHamilton) July 4, 2024
Woke up, flew to Silverstone, media day done, wink training completed for the weekend.
We are ready 😘 pic.twitter.com/BodjkRZL7p— Charles Leclerc (@Charles_Leclerc) July 4, 2024
Fresh new colours for the next few races in July!
🎨: @BellRacingHQ / @KVDesign_helmet #BritishGP #TeamZHOU pic.twitter.com/9z4vVMVmbT
— 周冠宇 | Zhou Guanyu 🇨🇳 (@ZhouGuanyu24) July 4, 2024
|@danielricciardo spotted the APX GP motorhome opposite the RB garage at Silverstone:
“22 cars on the grid, they got a full motorhome and stuff! That’s pretty cool…”#F1 #BritishGP #RaceFans pic.twitter.com/xIRr2OqSns
— RaceFans (@racefansdotnet) July 4, 2024
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