Grand Prix of Germany 2014

 Grand Prix of Germany 2014

Racing data
10th of 19 races in the 2014 Formula 1 World Championship
Surname:	Formula 1 Grand Prix Santander of Germany 2014
Date:	20th July 2014
Place:	Hockenheim
Course:	Hockenheimring Baden-Württemberg
Length:	306.458 km in 67 laps of 4.574 km
Spectator:	~ 52,000
Pole position
Driver:	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes
Time:	1: 16.540 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
Time:	1: 19.908 min (lap 53)
Podium
First:	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes
Second:	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Mercedes
Third:	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes

The 2014 German Grand Prix (officially Formula 1 Grand Prix Santander of Germany 2014 ) took place on July 20 at the Hockenheimring Baden-Württemberg in Hockenheim and was the tenth race of the 2014 Formula 1 World Championship .

Reports

background

After the British Grand Prix , Nico Rosberg led the drivers' standings with four points ahead of Lewis Hamilton and 67 points ahead of Daniel Ricciardo . Mercedes led the constructors' championship with 158 points ahead of Red Bull-Renault and with 220 points ahead of Ferrari .

The German Grand Prix switched regularly from the Nürburgring to the Hockenheimring Baden-Württemberg.

At the German Grand Prix, Pirelli provided the drivers with the tire compounds P Zero Soft (yellow) and P Zero Supersoft (red) as well as Cinturato Intermediates (green) and Cinturato Full Wets (blue) for wet conditions .

For the first time there were two DRS zones on the Hockenheimring, zone one began 60 meters after the north curve , the measuring point was 110 meters before the curve. The activation point for the second DRS zone was on the Parabolika 260 meters after the exit of the curve combination Entrance Parabolika , at the end of which the measuring point was located.

Compared to the 2012 German Grand Prix, changes were made to the route in three places. In front of the north curve, a strip of grass grating with a width of one meter was laid out. In the right curve in front of the south curve, an additional curb stone with a height of five centimeters was installed behind the curb on the inside. A new drainage system was installed there to allow rainwater to drain away more quickly in the southern curve .

Rosberg used a modified helmet design on the occasion of the German national soccer team's title win at the 2014 World Cup .

Jules Bianchi , Pastor Maldonado (four each), Valtteri Bottas , Marcus Ericsson , Kevin Magnussen and Adrian Sutil (two each) went into the race weekend with penalty points.

With Fernando Alonso (three times), Hamilton (twice) and Sebastian Vettel (once), three former winners competed for this Grand Prix. At the Hockenheimring, Alonso won three times, Hamilton once.

The race stewards were Garry Connelly (AUS), Felix Holter (GER), Tom Kristensen (DEN) and Vincenzo Spano (VEN) as well as a national race steward.

In the run-up to the race, the FIA informed the teams that the FRIC system would be interpreted as a movable, aerodynamic aid with immediate effect and thus violate Article 3.15 of the Technical Regulations. During the technical inspection on the Thursday before the Grand Prix, no vehicle was equipped with a FRIC system.

With 52,000 spectators on race Sunday, the 2014 German Grand Prix set a negative record for the number of spectators at a Formula 1 race at the Hockenheimring Baden-Württemberg.

training

In the first free practice, Rosberg set the fastest time ahead of Hamilton and Alonso. Susie Wolff took over the Williams from Bottas and Giedo van der Garde took over the Sauber from Esteban Gutiérrez in this training session . In the second free practice, Hamilton took the lead from Rosberg. Ricciardo came in third. In the third free practice session, Rosberg again led ahead of Hamilton and Alonso.

Qualifying

The damaged Hamilton car is recovered

The qualifying consisted of three parts with a net running time of 45 minutes. In the first qualifying segment (Q1), the drivers had 18 minutes to qualify for the race. All drivers who achieved a time in the first section that was a maximum of 107 percent of the fastest lap time qualified for the Grand Prix. The best 16 drivers reached the next part. About seven minutes before the end, Hamilton broke the right front brake disc in front of the Sachskurve. As a result, his vehicle spun and hit the boundary. Qualifying was interrupted to recover the vehicle. In the accident, the car's gearbox was damaged and had to be changed, so that Hamilton was moved five places back. Since Mercedes decided to use brake discs from another manufacturer - IC instead of Brembo - on Hamilton's car, it was initially said that Hamilton had to start the race from the pit lane. Since the new brake discs had the same weight and size as the old ones, he was finally allowed to start from the grid under Article 34.2 of the Sports Regulations. Marcus Ericsson drove no time due to a hydraulic leak and thus failed to qualify, but was subsequently allowed to start the race because he was fast enough in free practice. He too starts from the pit lane because the repair work on his car was not finished 3.5 hours after the end of qualifying, as required by Article 34.4 of the sporting regulations. In the end, Rosberg set the fastest time. The Caterham and Marussia pilots as well as Maldonado and Sutil were eliminated.

The second section (Q2) lasted 15 minutes. The ten fastest pilots qualified for the third part of qualifying. Rosberg stayed in first place. Hamilton, who set no time because of the accident, as well as Romain Grosjean , Gutiérrez, Jean-Éric Vergne , Kimi Raikkonen and Jenson Button were eliminated.

The final section (Q3) lasted twelve minutes, during which the first ten starting positions were awarded. Rosberg was once again the fastest and achieved pole position in front of Bottas and Felipe Massa .

run

At the start, Rosberg kept the lead over Bottas. Magnussen started better than the two Williams drivers and pushed himself into the first corner on the inside lane next to Massa. Massa pulled inwards at the apex of the curve, however, so that Massa's right rear tire and Magnussen's left front tire touched. Massas Williams was overturned and overturned, Massa was eliminated, but remained uninjured. The safety car went out to recover the vehicle . Magnussen pitted but was able to continue. Ricciardo just avoided Massa's car, but had to drive a long way through the run-off zone and lost many positions. Rosberg led in the safety car phase ahead of Bottas, Vettel, Alonso and Nico Hülkenberg .

While Rosberg immediately pulled away after the restart on lap three, his team-mate Hamilton, who started on the harder tire compound, performed a few overtaking maneuvers in the back of the field. On the seventh lap, Ricciardo and Hamilton passed Sutil in front of the hairpin. There was a slight contact between Sutil and Hamilton. Shortly afterwards, Sergio Pérez and Daniil Kwjat touched , who wanted to overtake Pérez on the outside. Kwjat got off the track and made a pit stop. Behind Pérez were Raikkonen, Ricciardo and Hamilton. In the eleventh lap Ricciardo passed Raikkonen. Hamilton also tried a maneuver against Raikkonen in this round, but was unsuccessful. Two laps later, Raikkonen tried to drive past Ricciardo again before the hairpin bend. Hamilton took advantage of the situation and overtook both drivers in one go.

The first pit stop phase began on the twelfth lap. Since there were several different strategies, there were a few pit stop-related overtaking maneuvers on the track in the next laps. Raikkonen, who was not yet in the pits, was on lap 15 ahead of Vettel and Alonso, who both overtook him before the hairpin bend. Raikkonen was trapped and its front wing was slightly damaged.

Rosberg kept the lead during his pit stop. Bottas fell behind Hamilton, whose first stop was later. With the new tires, Bottas quickly caught Hamilton and passed him. Hamilton was asked by the pits that he shouldn't fight Bottas due to the different tire conditions. After Hamilton pitted eleven laps after Rosberg, he was again behind a few drivers. At first he tried to overtake Button. He damaged his front wing in the hairpin, but passed Button a little later and a few laps later also passed Hulkenberg and was in fifth place. Grosjean had meanwhile retired with a technical problem.

The second pit stop phase began on lap 34. Again Alonso was the first driver to change tires. Shortly after him, his team-mate Raikkonen also pitted. Raikkonen should originally have stayed outside longer, but its tires were too worn out. Rosberg, Bottas and Hamilton pitted on lap 43. Rosberg and Bottas stayed ahead, Hamilton fell behind Alonso. Shortly afterwards there was a fire at the Toro Rosso of Kwjat, which parked his car in the run-off zone of the hairpin bend, where the vehicle was then extinguished. Meanwhile, Hamilton caught up with Alonso by around two seconds per lap with its fresh, super-soft tires.

On the 50th lap, Sutil, who had already been lapped, lost control of his vehicle and stopped after a spin on the start-finish straight. Hamilton pitted immediately and switched to another set of the super-soft tire compound in order to have better chances in the last laps of the race in the event of another safety car deployment with fresh tires. However, the safety car did not come out onto the track, which surprised most of the drivers and team managers - especially in view of the fact that the race management in the framework program for the GP2 sprint race in the morning sent the safety car out onto the track for no apparent reason and thus strongly influenced the race result would have. If the safety car had hit the track in this situation, Hamilton would have had a good chance of victory with fresh, super-soft tires.

Hamilton caught up quickly with the new tires and drove the fastest race lap in this phase. After he had overtaken Alonso, he pitted. Hamilton, who had already made up 17 positions, also caught up with Bottas, but there was no overtaking maneuver as Bottas was very fast on the straights. In contrast, there were a few overtaking maneuvers in the final phase in the rest of the field. Ricciardo initially passed Button and was then under pressure from Alonso, who had fresher tires. Ricciardo withstood Alonso's overtaking attempts for several laps, but was eventually overtaken on the 63rd lap. After the race, Alonso was positive about Ricciardo's tackling qualities. Button went to change tires three laps before the end.

Rosberg finally won the German Grand Prix for the first time. As in the previous race, Bottas finished second. Hamilton was third in front of Vettel, Alonso and Ricciardo. Hülkenberg, Button, Magnussen and Pérez completed the top 10.

Rosberg extended his lead in the drivers' world championship. Hamilton stayed second, Ricciardo third. The first two positions of the designers remained unchanged. Williams passed Ferrari into third position.

Vergne was penalized for having benefited from an evasive maneuver through the run-off zone in the sixth corner in a duel with Grosjean.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Infiniti Red Bull Racing	01	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull RB10	Renault 1.6 V6T	P
	03	Daniel Ricciardo
Marussia F1 Team	04th	Max Chilton	Marussia MR03	Ferrari 1.6 V6T	P
	17th	Jules Bianchi
Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team	06th	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes F1 W05	Mercedes-Benz 1.6 V6T	P
	44	Lewis Hamilton
Scuderia Ferrari	07th	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari F14 T	Ferrari 1.6 V6T	P
	14th	Fernando Alonso
Lotus F1 Team	08th	Romain Grosjean	Lotus E22	Renault 1.6 V6T	P
	13	Pastor Maldonado
Caterham F1 team	09	Marcus Ericsson	Caterham CT05	Renault 1.6 V6T	P
	10	Kamui Kobayashi
Sahara Force India F1 Team	11	Sergio Perez	Force India VJM07	Mercedes-Benz 1.6 V6T	P
	27	Nico Hulkenberg
Williams Martini Racing	19th	Felipe Massa	Williams FW36	Mercedes-Benz 1.6 V6T	P
	41	Susie Wolff
	77	Valtteri Bottas
McLaren Mercedes	20th	Kevin Magnussen	McLaren MP4-29	Mercedes-Benz 1.6 V6T	P
	22nd	Jenson Button
Sauber F1 Team	21st	Esteban Gutiérrez	Clean C33	Ferrari 1.6 V6T	P
	36	Giedo van der Garde
	99	Adrian Sutil
Scuderia Toro Rosso	25th	Jean-Éric Vergne	Toro Rosso STR9	Renault 1.6 V6T	P
	26th	Daniil Kvyat

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} The Williams with the number 41 was used in the first free practice for Wolff. Bottas then took over the vehicle with his number 77 for the rest of the race weekend.
2. ↑ ^{a b} The Sauber with start number 36 was used in the first free practice for van der Garde. Gutiérrez then took over the vehicle for the rest of the race weekend with his number 21.

Classifications

Qualifying

Item	driver	constructor	Q1	Q2	Q3	begin
01	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1: 17.631	1: 17.109	1: 16.540	01
02	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Mercedes	1: 18.215	1: 17.353	1: 16.759	02
03	Felipe Massa	Williams-Mercedes	1: 18.381	1: 17.370	1: 17.078	03
04th	Kevin Magnussen	McLaren-Mercedes	1: 18.260	1: 17.788	1: 17.214	04th
05	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull-Renault	1: 18.117	1: 17.855	1: 17.273	05
06th	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1: 18.194	1: 17.646	1: 17.577	06th
07th	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1: 18.389	1: 17.866	1: 17.649	07th
08th	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso-Renault	1: 18.530	1: 18.103	1: 17.965	08th
09	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	1: 18.927	1: 18.017	1: 18.014	09
10	Sergio Perez	Force India-Mercedes	1: 18.916	1: 18.161	1: 18.035	10
11	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1: 18.425	1: 18.193	-	11
12	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1: 18.534	1: 18.273	-	12
13	Jean-Éric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Renault	1: 18.496	1: 18.285	-	13
14th	Esteban Gutiérrez	Clean Ferrari	1: 18.739	1: 18.787	-	16
15th	Romain Grosjean	Lotus Renault	1: 18.894	1: 18.983	-	14th
16	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1: 18.683	no time	-	20th
17th	Adrian Sutil	Clean Ferrari	1: 19.142	-	-	15th
18th	Jules Bianchi	Marussia Ferrari	1: 19.676	-	-	17th
19th	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus Renault	1: 20.195	-	-	18th
20th	Kamui Kobayashi	Caterham-Renault	1: 20.408	-	-	19th
21st	Max Chilton	Marussia Ferrari	1: 20.489	-	-	21st
107 percent time : 1: 23.065 min (based on Q1 best time of 1: 17.631 min)
DNQ	Marcus Ericsson	Caterham-Renault	no time	-	-	box

Remarks

1. ↑ Gutiérrez was moved three positions back because of causing a collision at the British Grand Prix.
2. ↑ Hamilton was moved five positions back because of a gear change after qualifying.
3. ↑ Ericsson was allowed to start from last place on the grid because he was fast enough in free practice. However, he started from the pit lane because the repair work on his Caterham was not completed 3.5 hours after qualifying, as required by the regulations.

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap
01	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	67	2	1: 33: 42.914	01	1: 21.298 (67.)
02	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Mercedes	67	2	+ 20.789	02	1: 21,494 (45th)
03	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	67	3	+ 22,530	20th	1: 19.908 (53.)
04th	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	67	3	+ 44.014	06th	1: 21,545 (39.)
05	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	67	3	+ 52.467	07th	1: 20.548 (57.)
06th	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull-Renault	67	3	+ 52.549	05	1: 20.846 (53rd)
07th	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	67	2	+1: 04.178	09	1: 22.098 (44th)
08th	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	67	3	+1: 24.711	11	1: 21,346 (64th)
09	Kevin Magnussen	McLaren-Mercedes	66	3	+ 1 lap	04th	1: 20.224 (56.)
10	Sergio Perez	Force India-Mercedes	66	3	+ 1 lap	10	1: 20.752 (54th)
11	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	66	3	+ 1 lap	12	1: 21.338 (55th)
12	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus Renault	66	2	+ 1 lap	18th	1: 22.305 (41st)
13	Jean-Éric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Renault	66	3	+ 1 lap	13	1: 21.876 (58th)
14th	Esteban Gutiérrez	Clean Ferrari	66	3	+ 1 lap	16	1: 22.008 (61.)
15th	Jules Bianchi	Marussia Ferrari	66	2	+ 1 lap	17th	1: 22,522 (57.)
16	Kamui Kobayashi	Caterham-Renault	65	3	+ 2 rounds	19th	1: 22.866 (50.)
17th	Max Chilton	Marussia Ferrari	65	3	+ 2 rounds	21st	1: 23.035 (50th)
18th	Marcus Ericsson	Caterham-Renault	65	3	+ 2 rounds	box	1: 23.230 (49.)
-	Adrian Sutil	Clean Ferrari	47	3	DNF	15th	1: 22,529 (41st)
-	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso-Renault	44	2	DNF	08th	1: 22,179 (34.)
-	Romain Grosjean	Lotus Renault	26th	1	DNF	14th	1: 24.137 (26.)
-	Felipe Massa	Williams-Mercedes	00	0	DNF	03	-

World Cup stands after the race

The first ten of the race got 25, 18, 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 and 1 point (s) respectively.

Driver ranking

Item driver constructor Points 01  Nico Rosberg Mercedes 190 02  Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 176 03  Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull-Renault 106 04th  Fernando Alonso Ferrari 97 05  Valtteri Bottas Williams-Mercedes 91 06th  Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 82 07th  Nico Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes 69 08th  Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 59 09  Kevin Magnussen McLaren-Mercedes 37 10  Felipe Massa Williams-Mercedes 30th 11  Sergio Perez Force India-Mercedes 29

Item driver constructor Points 12  Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 19th 13  Jean-Éric Vergne Toro Rosso-Renault 9 14th  Romain Grosjean Lotus Renault 8th 15th  Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso-Renault 6th 16  Jules Bianchi Marussia Ferrari 2 17th  Adrian Sutil Clean Ferrari 0 18th  Marcus Ericsson Caterham-Renault 0 19th  Pastor Maldonado Lotus Renault 0 20th  Esteban Gutiérrez Clean Ferrari 0 21st  Max Chilton Marussia Ferrari 0 22nd  Kamui Kobayashi Caterham-Renault 0

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  Mercedes 366 02  Red Bull-Renault 188 03  Williams-Mercedes 121 04th  Ferrari 116 05  Force India-Mercedes 98 06th  McLaren-Mercedes 96

Item constructor Points 07th  Toro Rosso-Renault 15th 08th  Lotus Renault 8th 09  Marussia Ferrari 2 10  Clean Ferrari 0 11  Caterham-Renault 0

Individual evidence

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16. ↑ Mario Fritzsche: "Officially: Hamilton drives off from the grid". Motorsport-Total.com, July 20, 2014, accessed July 20, 2014 . 
17. ↑ Dennis Hamann: "Caterham: Ericsson can start thanks to FIA grace". Motorsport-Total.com, July 19, 2014, accessed July 20, 2014 . 
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