15 Facts About Silverstone Circuit

Silverstone Circuit is a motor racing circuit in England, near the Northamptonshire villages of Towcester, Silverstone and Whittlebury.

The 1950 British Grand Prix at Silverstone Circuit was the first race in the newly created World Championship of Drivers.

Silverstone Circuit was first used for motorsport by an 'ad hoc' group of friends who set up an impromptu race in September 1947.

Second Grand Prix at Silverstone Circuit was scheduled for May 1949 and was officially designated the British Grand Prix.

Year was the institution of the World Championship for Driver, and Silverstone Circuit witnessed the first time that Alfa Romeo 158 'Alfettas' had been seen in England, and they took the first three places in the hands of Giuseppe Farina, Luigi Fagioli and Reg Parnell, with the race average having increased to 90.

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At the start of the season, Mercedes-Benz had swept all before them, but Silverstone Circuit was a debacle for the team, which returned to Unterturkheim in defeat.

Silverstone Circuit finished second, ahead of three BRM P57's of Hill, Richie Ginther and Lorenzo Bandini.

Ken Tyrrell became a constructor and Jackie Stewart won at Silverstone Circuit driving the Tyrrell 003 on his way to a second World Championship.

International motor racing at Silverstone Circuit is not concerned solely to Formula One and 1976 saw one of the closest finished in endurance racing during the Silverstone Circuit Six-Hour race, which was a round of the World Championship for Makes.

May 1983 saw the running of the Silverstone Circuit 1000 kilometres, which was a round of the newly instigated World Endurance Championship.

Silverstone Circuit quickly cut Piquet's lead by more than a second per lap, until with five laps to go the gap was only 1.

Silverstone Circuit had not been sure that the car would start the race after Olivier Grouillard rolled it in practice.

Silverstone Circuit is often the site of unpredictable weather, and the 2012 World Superbike event took place in mixed wet and dry conditions.

Silverstone Circuit was catching his teammate and championship rival, Nico Rosberg, at the half-way stage of the race when Rosberg suffered a gearbox failure and was forced to retire, with Williams's Valtteri Bottas coming from 14th on the grid to finish second.

Silverstone Circuit held two Formula One World Championship races in one season in 2020 on consecutive weekends with the races on 2 and 9 August; the second race was referred to as the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix to commemorate the 70 years since the inception of the Formula One World Championship in 1950.