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Lights green
We are racing at Silverstone!
Toro Rosso are readying a nose to put on Hartley's car, but it doesn't look like he'll make it out right for the start.
Lights on...
Hamilton slots into pole position, with the rest of the field following slowly.
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Gasly asks Toro Rosso to remind him every couple of laps to take a drink.
Both Williams are at the end of pitlane with tyre blankets on, but Hartley hasn't joined them yet.
Green flag
The grid is cleared of people, and Hamilton leads the field away for the formation lap.
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Hulkenberg (11th), Sainz (16th), plus pitlane starters Stroll and Hartley, are the only drivers starting the race on mediums rather than softs.
The grid:
1 Hamilton2 Vettel3 Raikkonen4 Bottas5 Verstappen6 Ricciardo7 Magnussen8 Grosjean9 Leclerc10 Ocon11 Hulkenberg12 Perez13 Alonso14 Gasly15 Ericsson16 Sainz17 Vandoorne
Pitlane:SirotkinStrollHartley
1 Hamilton2 Vettel3 Raikkonen4 Bottas5 Verstappen6 Ricciardo7 Magnussen8 Grosjean9 Leclerc10 Ocon11 Hulkenberg12 Perez13 Alonso14 Gasly15 Ericsson16 Sainz17 Vandoorne
Pitlane:SirotkinStrollHartley
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The last time three cars started from the pitlane was Hungary 2014 (Maldonado, Magnussen, Hamilton).
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We've got three cars starting from the pits today: Hartley's Toro Rosso, which was destroyed in FP3, and the two Williams drivers, who have taken rear wing changes after problems in qualifying 
One thing that could throw a spanner into the works here could be the heat. It's roasting at Silverstone today, and that can play havoc with the tyres, as we saw in Austria last weekend. Perhaps the conditions will provide the variable we're hoping for to make things interesting.
And what of Red Bull? So much of this lap is spent at full throttle, with corners such as Abbey and Copse now easily flat-out, that it has become very much a power circuit. And, unfortunately, Red Bull doesn't have enough of that. Max Verstappen reckons it feels like the team are 70-80bhp down on Mercedes and Ferrari.
The idea of the three of them - perhaps with Valtteri Bottas as well - running in a tight pack is unlikely. This breed of Formula 1 car makes following closely very difficult - we've had drivers saying you can't follow within less than 1.8 seconds of the car ahead, and with so many high-speed corners here, the cars' aero is working incredibly hard.
We have three cars covered by less than a tenth of a second from qualifying yesterday, with Lewis Hamilton narrowly edging the Ferraris of Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen for pole position. How will that translate into the race?
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Today, 'God Save the Queen' is playing for the British Grand Prix rather than England's World Cup exploits. It's still coming home, but for today we'll focus on 20 drivers rather than 22 footballers. Welcome to Silverstone.
By: Geoff Creighton
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