2003 British Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 11 of 16 in the 2003 Formula One World Championship
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Race details | |||||
Date | 20 July 2003 | ||||
Official name | LVI Foster's British Grand Prix | ||||
Location | Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone, Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire, England | ||||
Course | Permanent Road Facility | ||||
Course length | 5.141 km (3.194 miles) | ||||
Distance | 60 laps, 308.355 km (191.603 miles) | ||||
Weather | Sunny at start, cloudy later, Air: 24 °C (75 °F), Track 29 °C (84 °F)[1] | ||||
Pole position | |||||
Driver | Ferrari | ||||
Time | 1:21.209 | ||||
Fastest lap | |||||
Driver | Rubens Barrichello | Ferrari | |||
Time | 1:22.236 on lap 38 | ||||
Podium | |||||
First | Ferrari | ||||
Second | Williams-BMW | ||||
Third | McLaren-Mercedes | ||||
Lap leaders |
The 2003 British Grand Prix (formally the LVI Foster's British Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 20 July 2003 at the Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone, Northamptonshire, England. It was the eleventh round of the 2003 Formula One season. The 60-lap race was won by Rubens Barrichello driving for Ferrari after starting from pole position. Juan Pablo Montoya finished second in a Williams car, and Kimi Räikkönen third driving for McLaren.
Jarno Trulli, driving for Renault, started alongside Barrichello on the front row and led the first eleven laps of the race, until a track invasion by a later-to-be-defrocked priest, who ran along Hangar straight, running opposite to the 170 mph (280 km/h) train of cars, wearing a saffron kilt and waving religious banners.[2] As a result, the vast majority of cars pitted under safety car conditions, which led to the Toyota drivers Cristiano da Matta and Olivier Panis, who had elected not to pit, leading the field until Räikkönen assumed the lead on lap 30 when Da Matta pitted.