Of the other runners
Heikki Kovalainen will be right up there in the sister
McLaren and he could be the ‘dark horse' for the victory because it is kind of a home grand prix for him.
He has done a lot of racing in the UK and has got a lot of friends here and so forth. He also knows Silverstone well from his earlier days and also from his
F1 racing and testing.
But it is not going to be easy to bring in a top result. He is under pressure a bit. We have seen good results from him but not the ultimate - and that is a grand prix win. We know that the car is capable because it has won with Lewis and it will be interesting to see if Heikki can break his duck this season.
Further down the grid
Red Bull Racing and
Toyota are very close in the battle for fourth spot in the manufacturers' with just one point between them. Red Bull go to GB with a run of seven points finishes in succession, while
Jarno Trulli of course took that superb third place in France.
Trulli really impressed me last time out - and proved me wrong. I didn't think that he would have the race pace and he did. He kept it up throughout and put in a very, very solid performance. That could be significant and maybe they will get another good result at
Silverstone.
I'd expect them to be hunting in the top six to eight cars in qualifying and again in the top six in the race. A podium may be difficult to achieve again but saying that Trulli was there on merit in many ways at Magny Cours and third was very well deserved.
Renault seems to have shown flashes of potential so far this season and to a lesser degree so do
Williams, although the latter have got themselves into a bit of a pickle of late.
