2014 British Grand Prix
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| Race details | ||
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| Race 8 of the 2014 Superleague season | ||
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| Date | 19th June, 2014 | |
| Official name | 2014 British Grand Prix | |
| Location | Silverstone Circuit, Northamptonshire | |
| Course | Permanent racing facility 3.667 mi / 5.901 km | |
| Distance | 52 laps, 190.684 mi / 306.852 km | |
| Weather |  Sunny
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| Pole position | ||
| Driver |  Alex Cooper
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Midnight-Potentia |
| Time | 1:26.452 | |
| Fastest Lap | ||
| Driver | Alex Cooper
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Midnight-Potentia |
| Time | 1:27.164 | |
| Podium | ||
| First | David Fidock
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CSG Racing-Potentia |
| Second | Lewis Redshaw
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CSG Racing-Potentia |
| Third | Alex Cooper
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Midnight-Potentia |
The 2014 British Grand Prix was the ninth race of the 2014 Superleague season and took place at the Silverstone Circuit on the 19th June. The race was full of action, with Alex Cooper, who replaced Giuseppe Rainieri at Midnight, taking pole and the fastest lap and seemingly looking set fair to win in the early stages; instead it was Australian Harley Hamnett who snatched his first victory and the first Superleague victory for the veteran Hawkeye Racing, who could trace their history back to the very beginnings of the league.
Although Hamnett won the race, by barely a quarter of a second from CSG Racing's David Fidock, his win was later stripped of him (along with all of his 2014 results) after strong evidence suggested he had been using illegal aids. As a result the win went to Fidock, whose team mate Lewis Redshaw finished second, ahead of the two Midnights of Cooper and Nick Rowland. Rainieri, who had found a new drive at Kernow, finished 9th.
Contents
Report
Background
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Qualifying
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Race
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Post-race
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Results
Standings after the race
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- Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
Mid-term report
With the season at just over half-distance, CSG led the Constructors' championship by 133 points from 2nd place Midnight Motorsport, the defending champions. Put in context, the 133 point gap was only 12 points less than the total number of points third-placed team Nijo Racing had scored the entire season up to that point. With Rainieri's departure, Midnight's title chances took a severe knock, but hopes rose again with the announcement that defending champion Lukas Euler would return to race a select number of races for the team; he would share the drive with Alex Cooper who immediately proved his pace at his first race, at Silverstone.
Hawkeye's victory saw them shoot up to 4th place in the championship, though only a dozen points ahead Red Archer, who had been helped tremendously by consistent points finishes, in particular by Deividas Misiulis who, despite missing Spain, had finished every other race in the points; Red Archer were the only team besides CSG to have at least one car score points in every round.
20 points behind Red Archer were the somewhat-fading Torrent, who, despite being 4th in the championship at Monaco, had only scored 6 points since then. Within ten points of them were both Nordsjoen and Vod:Bul, in what was promising to be a tight battle, with Kernow only a further 10 points behind Vod:Bul.
23 points behind Kernow were Green Stripes Racing; while the team had failed to score any points at all before Monaco, a mid-season renaissance had seen them score at every race since, securing a total of 29. This had seen them leap ahead of the other teams, sadly struggling at the back. 9 points behind Green Stripes were Phoenix F1 on 20; within another 9 points were three other teams: début team Target Racing on 18 followed by veteran teams ST Racing, on 12, and Woods Racing on 11.
Whereas CSG's points gap to second place in the constructors was immense, the gap between their two drivers at the top of the championship was anything but; at the half-way mark Lewis Redshaw led from David Fidock by just 10 points in what was beginning to look like a two-horse race for the drivers' championship. Rainieri was almost 50 points behind, and his acrimonious departure from Midnight, almost undoubtedly the second-best car on the grid, would likely have a tremendous impact on his chances of closing the gap to the two CSG drivers.
34 points behind Rainieri were Ruud Heesterbeek and Rainieri's former team-mate Nick Rowland, tied on 87 points. Heesterbeek retains the distinction of being the only driver this year so far to have won a race in a non-Potentia-powered car.
In 6th place, 25 points back, was Deividas Misiulis, whose consistency had been a key point in Red Archer's success. 4 points behind was the second Nijo driver, Tom van der Voort, who had finished within the top-11 in all but 2 of his races so far. 5 points behind van der Voort was Hawkeye's Gergo Baldi, who, despite the Australian's victory at Silverstone, just kept ahead of his team mate Hamnett by 1 point. In 10th place was Lee Morris with 42 points, although Morris had effectively withdrawn from the league just before Monaco; his 10th place was therefore open for the taking by the likes of Nordsjoen's Agustin Canapino and Torrent's Petter Kassa.
External links
| Preceded by: 2014 Austrian Grand Prix |
GPVWC Superleague 2014 season |
Succeeded by: 2014 German Grand Prix |
| Preceded by: 2013 British Grand Prix |
British Grand Prix |
Succeeded by: 2015 British rand Prix |
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