Silverstone
Towcester
Northants
NN12 8TN
Tel: 01327 857271
Fax: 01327 857663
Ticket Hotline: 01327 850206
Website: www.silverstonemotorsport.co.uk
Next Race: 29th April 2007
Lap Record: 1m 25.512s
Lap Record Holder: Ryuichi Kiyonari, Honda
Directions:
Silverstone is located off the A43 in Silverstone village, between Towcester and Brackley. Travellers using the M1 motorway should use Junction 15A, taking the A43, while those using the M40 motorway need to exit at Junction 10.
Track Info:
Silverstone will always hold a place in the heart and history of British Motorsport. It hosted the very first round of the official World Championship, in May 1950. Won by Giuseppe Farina in an Alfa Romeo 158, it was one of three wins that year that saw the Italian crowned as the first-ever World Champion of the modern era.
This Northamptonshire venue was developed on the site of a wartime airfield, and actually held non-championship Grand Prix in 1948 and 1949, when Luigi Villoresi and Emmanuel de Graffenried gave Maserati two victories in succession.
A list of Silverstone's Grand Prix winners down the years is a roll-call of the motor racing hall of fame - Ascari and Gonzalez, Fangio and Brabham, Clark and Stewart, Hunt and Watson, Prost and Senna, Mansell and Villeneuve, Schumacher and Coulthard are just some of the names - but there are notable exceptions. Graham Hill, twice World Champion, never won a British Grand Prix, and Stirling Moss, so successful in other races at Silverstone, never won his home Grand Prix here.
Operated today by Silverstone Circuits Limited, the Silverstone name is synonymous with the very best in competitive racing. The British Grand Prix, World Superbike, British Touring Cars, British Superbike, British F3 & GTs all grace this historic venue.