GP Great Britain: Race

1. M. Webber, Red Bull, 1:24:38.200
2. L. Hamilton, McLaren, + 1.360 secs
3. N. Rosberg, Mercedes, + 21.307 secs
11. V. Liuzzi, Force India, + 42.459 secs

Tonio put in a fighting performance to end today’s British Grand Prix in 11th position, less than a second from 10th and nine positions up from grid slot.

After a solid start he moved steadily up the field and was sitting in 15th position by the time of his pit stop, just over halfway through the race. He graduated through the field to 11th after a change to the softer tyres but he had to fight for position until the very end of the race as Alonso sought to regain track position following his penalty. Tonio however kept his nerve and his line to hold onto 11th, only narrowly missing out on giving the team a double points finish.

After the race, Tonio said: “I really enjoyed the second part of the race. We need to understand what happened in the first part of the race as with the hard tyres we had unbelievable understeer. I couldn’t cope with the high speed corners and was really struggling to keep positions and a strong pace. We have to work it out as on the softer tyres we were performing very well and finished just a few hundredths from the points.”

“Definitely without this issue we could have been in the points so we’ll look at it and understand. We also still have an issue with the speed in the race but it was a great race overall and I always pushed 100% as you never know what can happen at the end.”