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The fuel load information would have made for terrifying reading for people who weren't Sebastian Vettel after qualifying at Silverstone, as it dawned that the Red Bull man had claimed pole position despite having the heaviest car.

Vettel's fuel load, coupled with his pole position, is fearsome for the race tomorrow. The German should not be in for fuel until around lap 21, later than some of the drivers outside the top ten who were allowed to refuel after qualifying.

Mark Webber's load shows how much his error on his penultimate lap, and Kimi Raikkonen's blocking on his final lap, hurt him, with Webber qualifying in a lighter car than Vettel for the first time this year, but ending up behind him on the grid, and with three laps less fuel. He does, though, have an extra lap on second placed Rubens Barrichello.

Kazuki Nakajima will be the first scheduled stopper, after the Japanese man had his car fuelled using a mouse's teacup, while championship leader, and home bandwagon favourite, Jenson Button, looks to have little tactical advantage. He starts 6th with the same strategy as his second placed team mate.

Elsewhere, both Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen didn't qualify at the back of the top ten shootout because they were heavy with fuel, merely because their cars are awful.

Further back, it is Giancarlo Fisichella's turn to get the optimistic light fuel Findia strategy, and Heikki Kovalainen will start the race driving the Torrey Canyon.

	British GP Fuel
	Driver	Weight	Grid Pos
1	Kazuki Nakajima	652.5kg	5
2	Kimi Raikkonen	654.0kg	9
3	Fernando Alonso	654.0kg	10
4	Rubens Barrichello	657.5kg	2
5	Jenson Button	657.5kg	6
6	Jarno Trulli	658.0kg	4
7	Mark Webber	659.5kg	3
8	Timo Glock	660.0kg	8
9	Nico Rosberg	661.5kg	7
10	Nick Heidfeld	665.5kg	15
11	Lewis Hamilton	666.0kg	19
12	Sebastian Vettel	666.5kg	1
13	Giancarlo Fisichella	668.0kg	16
14	Sebastien Buemi	672.5kg	20
15	Felipe Massa	675.0kg	11
16	Nelson Piquet Jr	682.5kg	14
17	Sebastien Bourdais	687.5kg	17
18	Robert Kubica	689.5kg	12
19	Adrian Sutil	692.0kg	18
20	Heikki Kovalainen	695.5kg	13

 

 

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