page_title: 2013 British Grand Prix
section_title: Post-race
hierarchical_section_title: 2013 British Grand Prix / Post-race
caption_attribution_description: English: 2013 British Grand Prix podium: Damon Hill interviewing Nico Rosberg.
context_page_description: The 2013 British Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Silverstone Circuit in Silverstone, England, United Kingdom, on 30 June 2013 before 120,000 spectators. It was the eighth round of the 2013 Formula One World Championship and the 64th British Grand Prix to be held as part of the series. Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg won the 52-lap race from a second position start. Mark Webber of the Red Bull team finished second and Fernando Alonso took third in a Ferrari.
  Lewis Hamilton, Rosberg's teammate, won the pole position by setting the fastest lap in qualifying. He led for the first eight laps until his car's left-rear tyre failed on lap eight, promoting Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel to the lead. Two more left-rear tyre failures for Ferrari's Felipe Massa and Toro Rosso driver Jean-Éric Vergne led to race director Charlie Whiting deploying the safety car. The race was restarted at the end of lap 21 with Vettel leading. He led for the next 20 laps before a gearbox failure forced him to retire on the 41st lap and cause a second safety car deployment. Rosberg took the lead, and held off Webber for the rest of the race to win.
context_section_description: At the podium interviews, conducted by 1996 world champion Damon Hill, Rosberg called it "a very, very special day" because of the progress the Mercedes team had made over the season. Webber said his team would have to investigate his slow start to the race and would have preferred more laps to have a chance of winning it. Alonso said he felt it was a lucky race for his team due to the loss of position after making a pit stop during the second safety car period.. In the post-race press conference, Rosberg said he would not been able to catch and pass Vettel had the latter not retired due to a lack of overall speed. Webber said he was happy with his own performance and was looking forward to the next round. Alonso called the finish "a fantastic result for our very difficult weekend" because his car was inconsistent during a meeting—slow in qualifying but fast in a race.
  Rosberg was summoned to the stewards to explain a perceived non-compliance of rules for not slowing enough for waved yellow flags and not overtaking early in the race between turns three and five. They reviewed telemetry and broadcast footage and imposed a reprimand on Rosberg. Vettel was disappointed to lose a potential victory with his gearbox failing late in the race, saying: "These things unfortunately happen but fortunately we've got the next race coming up next week so we can try again." Räikkönen said his team Lotus had made a strategy error dropping him from second to fifth in the final laps: "It's three races now where we haven't had the result we maybe expect, but hopefully if we can have a bit more luck and also get rid of some of the mistakes we'll be able to get back to the front." The team's head of trackside operations Alan Permane confirmed they had made an strategy error. Di Resta believed his team Force India would be happy to finish ninth and Ricciardo saw his eighth-place finish as "a missed opportunity to score more points" due to the fast pace of his car.
  Button on used, cold tyres said he was "a sitting duck" because he was vulnerable to being overtaken after the safety car was deployed: "I was just waiting for people to pass me. It was tough." The race result kept Vettel atop the World Drivers' Championship with 132 points. Alonso's third-place finish allowed him to close up to 21 points. Räikkönen maintained third position, Hamilton fourth, and Webber fifth. Red Bull maintained their lead in the World Constructors' Championship with 219 points. The points Mercedes had accrued at Silverstone allowed them to overtake Ferrari for second position. Lotus maintained fourth place and Force India were in fifth with eleven races of the season remaining.
caption: The post-race podium ceremony with the drivers interviewed by 1996 world champion Damon Hill
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