FACTFILE FORMULA 1 BRITISH GRAND PRIX 2016 #10 8 - 10 July 2016

TYRE USAGE LOWEST STARTING HIGHEST G-FORCE AT Silverstone facts POSITION FOR A WINNER TURN 11 FOR 0.7 SEC. The first British Grand Prix very nearly had a different venue. In 1948, RAF Snitterfield, near Stratford-up- on-Avon in Warwickshire, was one of two disused EASY HARD G airfields considered for the British Grand Prix. Silverstone was eventually chosen. BRAKE WEAR 4.5 Church’s shoes, which is based in Northampton, make 7 9 5,000 pairs of shoes a week, 70 per cent of which are 8 exported. The town is the centre of the British shoe RENAULT VICTORIES making industry and its football team is nicknamed EASY HARD (Constructor only) The Cobblers. AVERAGE STARTING Whittlebury forest has many legends, including one DOWNFORCE POSITION FOR THE WINNER about a beautiful lady who spurned her lover’s affections to the point that he took his life. The revenge he sought was to chase her to death with his hounds for eternity. Some people say they can hear a loud LOW HIGH 2.47 2 “whoop” as he incites his hounds. 52% 24 338 46 SAFETY CAR TOP SPEED GEAR CHANGES PROBABILITY WINNERS FROM POLE (KPH) PER LAP

3 165 2.1 T07 Minimising understeer through TELEMETRY Luffield is essential to ensure good speed down the straight, Club FUEL EFFECT as this leads on through Copse, then subsequently into the Becketts complex and on to 8 306 0.1 Stowe. Vale 1 3 106 2.2 7 277 2.3 0.36 T09 Taken almost flat out, Copse is SEC/10KG one of the most daunting corners of the season and a real Luffield test of nerve for the drivers. (2015 average: 0.33sec/10kg) Stowe 8 285 3.9 T14 Overall car balance is essential Abbey Woodcote through the high-speed Becketts FUEL CONSUMPTION complex, which is entered at over 300kph with only minor 2 throttle lift through the entire Farm series of corners. 1.92 KG/LAP 8 335 1.1 T16 Vale is one of the slowest corners on the track – taken at around 100kph – and precedes DRS DRS (2015 average: 1.89kg/lap) the final right-hander of Club before the drivers pile down the 3 start / finish straight. 8 319 0.7 FULL THROTTLE Chapel Becketts Maggots Copse

4 180 2.8 8 313 2.8 59 % OF LAP 6 230 3.3

(2015 average: 53.5% of lap)

TYRE SELECTION RENAULT IN GREAT BRITAIN*

STARTS WINS PODIUMS U S L T U T M T F P F H R A S O E R S O S O F T E D I U M A R D

SOFT MEDIUM HARD 124 12 28 14 POLES F. laps total points 1:30.874S NO. OF OVERTAKES 13 12 391 LAP RECORD (, 2010) (2015) * As a Constructor and Engine Supplier

A trip down memory lane Renault created F1 history when it debuted the revolutionary and highly experimental RS01 5.891 306.198 52 #3 at the British GP on 17 July 1977. It became the first-ever manufacturer to race a turbocharged CIRCUIT LENGTH RACE DISTANCE NUMBER LONGEST car in the championship. Frenchman Jean-Pierre Jabouille started the race however retired LAP (KM) (KM) OF LAPS after 16 laps – but not before it had made a big impression.

Friday 8th July 2016 Saturday 9th July 2016 Sunday 10th July 2016 Free Practice 1 10:00 - 11:30 Free Practice 3 11:00 - 12:00 Race Start 13:00 19 Free Practice 2 14:00 - 15:30 17 Qualifying 13:00 18 CLOUDY CLOUDY SUNNY

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