2003 British Grand Prix

2003 British Grand Prix
Race 11 of 16 in the 2003 Formula One World Championship ← Previous race Next race →
Silverstone Circuit in its 2003 configuration
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	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari
Time	1:21.209
Fastest lap
Driver	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari
Time	1:22.236 on lap 38
Podium
First	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari
Second	Juan Pablo Montoya	Williams-BMW
Third	Kimi Räikkönen	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.