What to expect at British GP: Red Bull hoping for rain, Button hoping to complete 'to do' list

Team to watch: Red Bull

• The best reference point so far this year for how teams will fare at Silverstone was May's Spanish Grand Prix at the Circuit de Catalunya. Red Bull won that race, but even though that was largely thanks to the Mercedes pair taking each other off the RB12s were nonetheless very competitive.
• The team have enjoyed a significant step forward from their TAG Heuer-branded Renault engines which will help them on Silverstone's straights.

• It's around Silverstone's super-quick corners that the immense downforce of the car's chassis will be decisive. And if it rains - hardly an unusual occurrence during a British summer - they will be in even better shape.
• Before the rise of Mercedes, Red Bull were the team to beat around Silverstone. They won three times from 2009 to 2012 and arguably only lost the 2011 race due to a controversial one-off rule change.

Also on the radar: Mercedes

• It goes without saying Mercedes are going to be competitive. But Sunday's last-lap collision between the team's two drivers will ratchet up the tension heading into Lewis Hamilton's home race.

• The Briton and his German team-mate will be under ferocious scrutiny from team boss Toto Wolff having hit each other on track twice in the last four races, potentially costing the team as many as 49 points.
• Mercedes are the form team at Silverstone having won the last three British Grands Prix, all from pole position.

Button rises to the occasion