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Sebastian Vettel took pole for the British Grand Prix today, ahead of his Team mate Mark Webber and Alonso in the Ferrari, but not without some controversy.  Both Red Bulls had been fitted with a new design of front wing for this weekend, but Vettel’s front wing became detached and was damaged and the Team gave Webber’s wing to Vettel, which left Webber with the old design. Clearly after qualifying Webber was not a happy bunny and quite rightly so. The team had stated after the Turkish Grand Prix fiasco that they did not favor either driver. Clearly they favored Vettel today. They say that the new front wing would not effect the lap time, so why give it to Vettel? Even if the new front wing was not an improvement, taking it away from Webber and giving it to Vettel was a very demoralizing move against Webber. I hope he wins tomorrow and shows the Team that they are backing the wrong guy. Rosberg outqualified Schumacher by nearly a second today which is massive in Formula One terms. Schuey should step down and give a younger driver like Gary Paffet a chance.

The race should be a no contest tomorrow. The Red Bulls have a big advantage here, much to everyone’s surprise and only Alonso looks like being anywhere near them. A big disappointment for the British fans with the updates to the Mclarens being a damp squib and Jensen in particular seems to have suffered adhesion problems today. I predicted the closest race of the year so far but it looks like this will not be the case. We need a sharp downpour just before the start to liven things up.