Qualifying at Formula 1’s British Grand Prix was intriguing as it is, with the top six cars within 0.229s in Q3. What was even more interesting is the different set-up choices that got them there.
The Ferraris of Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton were fast in the high-speed corners but slower on the straights, while Red Bull's polesitter Max Verstappen moved to a lower-downforce wing that turned his RB21 into a straightline rocket, but made it slower in the demanding corner sequences. McLaren's Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris were somewhere in between those two extremes.
