70th Anniversary Grand Prix 2020 qualifying live: most current updates from Silverstone

And welcome to our coverage for qualifying for the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix at Silverstone. It truly is the second 7 days in a row we’re racing all around this great Northamptonshire circuit. Very last time out at the British Grand Prix we experienced a profoundly boring 49 laps in advance of the race burst into manner with a few tyre failures, most substantially for Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton at the entrance. Hamilton clung on to the victory with three wheels on his wagon but lousy old Bottas completed exterior of the factors and now faces a 30-issue deficit to the Briton in the championship.

What can we expect from this weekend? Much more Mercedes dominance, to be brutally sincere. Not that it would have been a shock, supplied all we saw very last weekend but their performances in the a few apply session so considerably suggests that they will be some way in advance of the industry again. I would say let’s hope for Bottas to pip Hamilton to pole position but he is so considerably driving in the championship now that Hamilton could complete 2nd to him in the next six rounds and continue to lead the championship. 

It looks really tight guiding them, although, with Purple Bull, McLaren, Racing Stage, Renault, Ferrari and maybe even AlphaTauri in the blend for some fair points at Silverstone.  Nico Hulkenberg — subbing in for Sergio Perez at Racing Point for a second weekend — has experienced a good weekend so far, ending P4 in final exercise and remaining very considerably on the rate of his crew-mate Lance Stroll in each and every session. He did not regulate to even start off his “comeback” Grand Prix previous 7 days, so fingers crossed that he can basically take the grid this time. 

It will be intriguing to see how the row in excess of Racing Point’s recent auto performs out, with quite a few teams now protesting the severity of the punishment they received yesterday over their rear brake ducts. In complete they ended up wonderful 400,000 euro and docked 15 constructor points. It is not more than.