Silverstone is well known as one of the fastest circuits on the calendar, but the pace has got even quicker today - with the fastest time in FP1 from Nico Rosberg already beating the fastest lap of the whole weekend in 2014. Rosberg went even faster in FP2, eventually setting a benchmark of 1m34.155s on the medium tyre - which is currently around 0.8-0.9 seconds faster than the hard tyre that is also nominated this weekend. This is a slightly smaller gap than originally anticipated, in track temperatures that peaked at 43 degrees centigrade. These conditions enable the P Zero Orange hard (which is a high working range compound) to work at its best. The overall lap record for the current...
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