2013 German Grand Prix

October 2020 F1 Germany German 2013 British Grand Prix 2013 Hungarian Grand Prix Nürburgring - Grand-Prix Stecke.svg 250px Layout of the Nürburgring "GP-Strecke" circuit 7 July 2013 Formula 1 Großer Preis Santander von Deutschland 2013http://www.formula1.com/races/in_detail/germany_902/circuit_diagram.html Formula 1 Großer Preis Santander von Deutschland Formula1.com Formula One Administration 27 June 2013 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20130604101517/http://www.formula1.com/races/in_detail/germany_902/circuit_diagram.html 4 June 2013 9 19 NürburgringNürburg, Germany Permanent racing facility 3.199 5.148 60 191.919 308.863 Sunny Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1:29.398 Great Britain Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1:33.468 51 Spain Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault Germany Kimi Räikkönen Lotus-Renault Finland Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault France GER 44,000 (Race Day)Daniel Steil Focus Online Nürburgring verhandelt weiter mit Ecclestone - Ende offen Nürburgring continues negotiations with Ecclestone - End open http://www.focus.de/sport/formel1/formel-1-nuerburgring-verhandelt-weiter-mit-ecclestone-ende-offen_id_4423089.html FOCUS Magazin Verlag GmbH de 22 January 2015 22 January 2015 24 September 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150924215617/http://www.focus.de/sport/formel1/formel-1-nuerburgring-verhandelt-weiter-mit-ecclestone-ende-offen_id_4423089.html dead The 2013 German Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Großer Preis Santander von Deutschland 2013) was a Formula One motor race that was held on 7 July 2013 at the Nürburgring in Nürburg, Germany,FIA Formula One calendar http://www.fia.com/championship/formula-1-world-championship/2013/calendar FIA.com Fedération Internationale de l'Automobile 27 June 2013 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20130208022708/http://www.fia.com/championship/formula-1-world-championship/2013/calendar 8 February 2013 as the ninth round of the 2013 season. It marked the 74th running of the German Grand Prix overall, and the 60th running of the German Grand Prix since 1950, when the racing series now known as the Formula One World Championship was created. This is the earliest a German Grand Prix has been held in a calendar year, followed by the 1926 and the 2009 editions of the race, though the 1996 European Grand Prix was held at the Nürburgring in late April. The 60-lap race was won by local driver Sebastian Vettel, driving a Red Bull after starting from second position on the grid. This was the first and only home victory for the German driver. Kimi Räikkönen finished second for Lotus. Räikkönen's teammate Romain Grosjean finished third. A charging Fernando Alonso finished fourth and also set the fastest lap driving a Ferrari. Lewis Hamilton, who started from pole position driving a Mercedes, ended up finishing 5th, only a second ahead of his former teammate Jenson Button.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsport/formulaone/10165241/German-Grand-Prix-2013-Sebastian-Vettel-of-Red-Bull-finishes-incident-packed-race-on-top-of-podium.html Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull finishes incident-packed race on top of podium 7 July 2013 The Daily Telegraph 8 July 2013 As a result of the race, Sebastian Vettel increased his championship lead to 34 points from Ferrari's Fernando Alonso. Kimi Räikkönen's second place moved him just 7 points behind Alonso in the standings. Lewis Hamilton remained fourth, while Mark Webber also remained in 5th spot. This was also Sergio Pérez's first points finish since Spain, and also for his teammate Jenson Button, since Monaco.https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/23218938 Sebastian Vettel wins German GP, with Lewis Hamilton fifth 7 July 2013 BBC Sport 8 July 2013 This was the last Formula One Grand Prix to be held at the Nürburgring until the 2020 Eifel. Background Tyre changes In the aftermath of the British Grand Prix, in which four drivers experienced explosive punctures at some of the fastest points of the Silverstone Circuit, tyre supplier Pirelli announced plans to alter the structure of the tyres for the German Grand Prix, ahead of a more-permanent solution to be introduced at the next race in Hungary.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsport/formulaone/10151649/British-Grand-Prix-2013-Drivers-threaten-to-boycott-German-Grand-Prix-after-dangerous-tyre-explosions.html Drivers threaten to boycott German Grand Prix after dangerous tyre explosions 1 July 2013 The Daily Telegraph 5 July 2013 The new tyres replaced the steel belts used in the rear wheels with Kevlar in order to lower the operating temperature by up to 10 C-change F-change and reduce the likelihood of explosive punctures.Pirelli plans new tyres and change to Formula 1 rules to prevent more failures http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/108507 Jonathan Noble Autosport.com Haymarket Publications 2 July 2013 4 July 2013 In addition to this, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) banned the practice of swapping the left- and right-side tyres around on the cars, which teams had discovered increased the life expectancy of each tyre.Mercedes welcomes Pirelli's greater clarity over F1 tyre set-up http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/108509 Matt Beer Autosport.com Haymarket Publications 3 July 2013 4 July 2013 Pirelli further lobbied to the FIA to make their recommendations for tyre pressure and camber settings to be made mandatory, after it was discovered that teams were deliberately using pressure and camber settings outside Pirelli's recommendations in order to maximise performance. This followed a similar incident at the 2011 Belgian Grand Prix, where teams used camber settings outside Pirelli's recommendations, which created blistering on the inside edge of the tyres as they experienced higher-than-normal operating temperatures.Formula 1 teams get reduced camber limit for the Italian Grand Prix at Monza http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/94283 Jonathan Noble Autosport.com Haymarket Publications 6 September 2011 4 July 2013 Report Qualifying Q1 Felipe Massa was the fastest driver in Q1, ahead of Kimi Räikkönen's Lotus. The drivers eliminated in Q1, were Valtteri Bottas, Pastor Maldonado, Charles Pic, Jules Bianchi, Giedo van der Garde and Max Chilton. Q2 This session saw a rapid improvement in times in the closing stages which caught some teams out, such as Nico Rosberg being eliminated due to a mistake on the part of the Mercedes team and Mark Webber only barely making it into Q3 by five one-hundredths of a second Felipe Massa was fastest again ahead of Kimi Räikkönen again as well. Jean-Éric Vergne was eliminated, as well as Adrian Sutil, Esteban Gutiérrez, Sergio Pérez and Paul di Resta. Q3 Lewis Hamilton took pole position with Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber in second and third, respectively. Kimi Räikkönen and Romain Grosjean qualified 4th and 5th. Alonso qualified 8th behind his teammate Felipe Massa and both opted to start the race on the medium tyre. Daniel Ricciardo managed to qualify on the 3rd row for the second race in succession. Jenson Button and Nico Hülkenberg elected not to set a time, saving their tyres for the race. Race Both Webber and Vettel had strong starts applying immediate pressure to Hamilton. Hamilton responded by trying to push Vettel off the racing line on the inside of the track which then opened the door for Webber to try to make a move on the outside, but by the end of turn one Vettel had managed to shake off Hamilton and take the race lead, with Webber moving into second and Hamilton dropping down to third. Felipe Massa also had a good start, gaining a few places. Alonso fell back slightly as did Hamilton and Daniel Ricciardo. Vettel kept the lead for the next few laps. Meanwhile, Massa, running in sixth place, went off the track at turn one on lap 3 after locking his rear brakes. The engine stalled and he retired from the race, caused by a gearbox failure. Nico Rosberg meanwhile, who had a disastrous qualifying, barely improved on his position in the first 5 laps. From laps 5 to 9, drivers were pitting due to using worn softs from qualifying to switch to the medium compound tyres, with Grosjean and Räikkönen going longer than most drivers and also setting a very quick pace. Grosjean led the race before stopping on lap 13 and continued to show strong pace afterwards. Webber, on the other hand, pitted a lap later and had a serious incident with his rear-right wheel. The mechanics did not attach the wheel properly and as Webber left his pitbox, the wheel fell off and rolled down the pit lane. It hit and knocked over a cameraman, who was transported to a hospital in Koblenz where he was reported to have suffered broken bones and a concussion. Webber's Red Bull was pushed back to his pitbox where a new wheel was fitted and he rejoined the race, a lap behind Vettel. The two Lotuses had never lost touch with Vettel during the first half of the race and were keeping pace with him, with both Grosjean and Räikkönen setting fastest laps of the race. On lap 23, Jules Bianchi's Marussia suffered an engine failure which resulted in a fire. He pulled to the left-hand side of the track but, unusually, his car rolled back across the track to the other side where it was stopped by an advertising board. This caused an instant safety car, which allowed Webber to get back on to the lead lap. Most of the drivers pitted for fresh tyres. Jean-Éric Vergne's Toro Rosso suffered a hydraulics failure less than two laps after Bianchi's engine failure, during the safety car period. He was able to return to the pits. His team-mate Daniel Ricciardo was struggling. He had qualified sixth but was slowly falling back into the field. Paul di Resta and Adrian Sutil of Force India also struggled during the first half of the race. After the safety car period, Webber began to make his way through the field before becoming stuck behind the Sauber of Esteban Gutiérrez. He was unable to pass the Mexican for more than ten laps and pitted to try to get an advantage with fresh tyres and clean air. Meanwhile, the McLaren drivers were once again having a tussle, with Jenson Button getting past Sergio Pérez at turn one. Pastor Maldonado, driving in the 600th grand prix race for the Williams F1 Team, was in the points in eighth, along with his team-mate and rookie Valtteri Bottas in tenth. Räikkönen was leading on lap 41 after Vettel and Grosjean had pitted for the third time. Lotus waited until lap 49 to pit Räikkönen, switching him to the soft tyre, which left Vettel and Grosjean in first and second, with Alonso a threat from behind in fourth place. Grosjean was then told on the radio to not hold Räikkönen up, for championship title points reasons. It took a few laps for Räikkönen to pass Grosjean and afterwards he attempted to chase down Vettel. Alonso set the fastest lap of the race, almost a second faster than the first three drivers, and was rapidly catching Grosjean. Meanwhile, Hamilton made a move on his former team-mate Button at turn two, moving into fifth. Webber then made a move on Pérez to go into seventh. Räikkönen was unable to catch Vettel, who took the victory. It was his first victory at his home race and the first victory he gained in his birthday month, July. It was also his 30th career victory, becoming the 6th driver to achieve such a feat and in just his 110th start. Räikkönen finished just one second behind, with Grosjean only just holding off Alonso for third place, the latter having used too much of his soft tyres while closing down the gap to Grosjean. The podium placings were the same as at the 2012 and the 2013 Bahrain Grand Prix. Hamilton, Button, Webber and Pérez remained fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth respectively. Rosberg, struggling to keep his Mercedes on the pace, finished ninth at his home race while Nico Hülkenberg took the final point for Sauber. di Resta finished eleventh, the first time he had finished outside the points during the season, with Ricciardo in twelfth, Adrian Sutil in thirteenth and Gutiérrez in fourteenth. Williams had a poor ending to their milestone race, with Maldonado and Bottas finishing fifteenth and sixteenth respectively after wheel gun problems in their pitstops. Charles Pic, his team-mate Giedo van der Garde and Max Chilton were the final finishers. Post race After the race Red Bull and Force India were given fines for incidents in the pits. Red Bull were fined €30,000 after the right-rear tyre from Mark Webber's car became detached as the Australian left his pit box. The errant tyre subsequently bounced down the pit lane before striking FOM cameraman Paul Allen. Allen, who remained conscious after the incident, was treated at the circuit's medical centre before being helicoptered to Koblenz Hospital for observation. Force India, meanwhile, were given a €5,000 fine after releasing Paul di Resta into the path of Toro Rosso's Jean-Éric Vergne.http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2013/7/14783.html Red Bull and Force India handed pit-stop fines 7 July 2013 Formula One Official Website 7 July 2013 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20130710215431/http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2013/7/14783.html 10 July 2013 Classification Qualifying Pos. Qualifying position No. Number Driver Constructor Q1 Q2 Q3 Grid Final grid position 1 10 GBR Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1:31.131 1:30.152 1:29.398 1 2 1 GER Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1:31.269 1:29.992 1:29.501 2 3 2 AUS Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:31.428 1:30.217 1:29.608 3 4 7 FIN Kimi Räikkönen Lotus-Renault 1:30.676 1:29.852 1:29.892 4 5 8 FRA Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 1:31.242 1:30.005 1:29.959 5 6 19 AUS Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:31.081 1:30.223 1:30.528 6 7 4 BRA Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:30.547 1:29.825 1:31.126 7 8 3 ESP Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1:30.709 1:29.962 1:31.209 8 9 5 GBR Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1:31.181 1:30.269 no time 9 10 11 GER Nico Hülkenberg Sauber-Ferrari 1:31.132 1:30.231 no time 10 11 9 GER Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1:31.322 1:30.326 11 12 14 GBR Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 1:31.322 1:30.697 12 13 6 MEX Sergio Pérez McLaren-Mercedes 1:31.498 1:30.933 13 14 12 MEX Esteban Gutiérrez Sauber-Ferrari 1:31.681 1:31.010 14 15 15 GER Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:31.320 1:31.010 15 16 18 FRA Jean-Éric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:31.629 1:31.104 16 17 17 FIN Valtteri Bottas Williams-Renault 1:31.693 17 18 16 VEN Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 1:31.707 18 19 20 FRA Charles Pic Caterham-Renault 1:32.937 221 1 20 22 FRA Jules Bianchi Marussia-Cosworth 1:33.063 19 21 21 NED Giedo van der Garde Caterham-Renault 1:33.734 20 22 23 GBR Max Chilton Marussia-Cosworth 1:34.098 21 107% time:1:36.885 Source:http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2013/902/7232/ Formula 1 Grosser Preis Santander von Deutschland 2013 - Provisional Results Formula1.com Formula One Administration 6 July 2013 6 July 2013 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20130709222604/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2013/902/7232/ 9 July 2013 1 1 — Charles Pic was given a five-place grid penalty for an unscheduled gearbox change.Caterham's Charles Pic gets gearbox penalty http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/108634 Autosport.com Haymarket Publications 7 July 2013 7 July 2013 Race Pos. Position No. Car number Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 1 Germany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 60 1:41:14.711 2 25 2 7 Finland Kimi Räikkönen Lotus-Renault 60 +1.008 4 18 3 8 France Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 60 +5.830 5 15 4 3 Spain Fernando Alonso Ferrari 60 +7.721 8 12 5 10 UK Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 60 +26.927 1 10 6 5 UK Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 60 +27.996 9 8 7 2 AUS Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 60 +37.562 3 6 8 6 MEX Sergio Pérez McLaren-Mercedes 60 +38.306 13 4 9 9 DEU Nico Rosberg Mercedes 60 +46.821 11 2 10 11 DEU Nico Hülkenberg Sauber-Ferrari 60 +49.892 10 1 11 14 UK Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 60 +53.771 12 12 19 AUS Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari 60 +56.975 6 13 15 DEU Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 60 +57.738 15 14 12 MEX Esteban Gutiérrez Sauber-Ferrari 60 +1:00.160 14 15 16 VEN Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 60 +1:01.929 18 16 17 FIN Valtteri Bottas Williams-Renault 59 +1 lap 17 17 20 FRA Charles Pic Caterham-Renault 59 +1 lap 22 18 21 NED Giedo van der Garde Caterham-Renault 59 +1 lap 20 19 23 UK Max Chilton Marussia-Cosworth 59 +1 lap 21 Ret Retired 18 FRA Jean-Éric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari 22 Hydraulics 16 Ret Retired 22 FRA Jules Bianchi Marussia-Cosworth 21 Engine 19 Ret Retired 4 BRA Felipe Massa Ferrari 3 Gearbox/Spun Off 7 Source:FORMULA 1 Grosser Preis SANTANDER von Deutschland 2013 http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2013/902/ Formula One Official Website 2003-2013 Formula One World Championship Limited 7 July 2013 8 July 2013 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20130719004933/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2013/902 19 July 2013 Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings Pos. Position Driver Points 10px 1 DEU Sebastian Vettel 157 10px 2 ESP Fernando Alonso 123 10px 3 FIN Kimi Räikkönen 116 10px 4 GBR Lewis Hamilton 99 10px 5 AUS Mark Webber 93Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/2013/allemagne/championnat.aspx Germany 2013 - Championship • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 18 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Position Constructor Points 10px 1 AUT Red Bull-Renault 250 10px 2 GER Mercedes 183 10px 3 ITA Ferrari 180 10px 4 GBR Lotus-Renault 157 10px 5 IND Force India-Mercedes 59Source: Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. See also 2013 Nürburgring GP2 Series round 2013 Nürburgring GP3 Series round References External links German Grand Prix 2013 2013 British Grand Prix 2013 Hungarian Grand Prix 2012 German Grand Prix 2014 German Grand Prix Next race at the Nürburgring: 2020 Eifel Grand Prix German Grand Prix Category:German Grand Prix Category:Sport in Rhineland-Palatinate Category:July 2013 sports events in Germany