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 Bridgestone British GP Review
 

Red Bull Racing driver Sebastian Vettel scored his second race win of the season after he used a two stop, soft - soft - hard tyre strategy to win a fast-paced British Grand Prix in cool and cloudy conditions at Silverstone.

Vettel finished fifteen seconds ahead of team-mate Mark Webber, who used the same strategy. The final podium position went to Brawn GP Formula 1 Team driver Rubens Barrichello, who used a soft-hard-soft tyre strategy. Bridgestone's soft tyre proved to be the superior race tyre here for most competitors, giving a faster lap time than the hard, and giving good consistency too.

Hiroshi Yasukawa - Director of Bridgestone Motorsport, says
"Congratulations to Sebastian Vettel for his second race win of the season and Red Bull Racing on their second one-two of the year. Silverstone has a great atmosphere and we have seen a fantastic crowd here throughout the weekend in what is both a very important market for Bridgestone and an important base for our Bridgestone Motorsport operation."

Hirohide Hamashima - Bridgestone Director of Motorsport Tyre Development, says
"Today we saw very hot pace from the Red Bulls in the cool weather conditions as they used the Bridgestone hard and soft tyres very well indeed. The best lap times of both Red Bull cars were over half a second faster than anyone else. The soft Bridgestone worked very well, especially after the second stint when there was more rubber down on the track. The hard Bridgestone did take longer to deliver its best lap time and we saw a number of illustrations of this as part of some interesting battles for position. Silverstone helped serve us an exciting fast race here today."

 
Stats of the Day 
Race: 14:00 - 15:37
Driver             Team      	    Time           Strategy
Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Racing    1h 22m 49.328s S-S-H
Mark Webber Red Bull Racing 	    1h 23m 04.516s S-S-H
Rubens Barrichello Brawn GP Team    1h 23m 30.503s S-H-S

Tyres used: Hard / Soft 

Temperatures Ambient     Track       Weather 
PM - Race    17C-16C-17C 25C-23C-25C Cloudy
 

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