He and eleven other drivers raced over a two-mile circuit, during the course of which Geoghegan himself ran over a sheep that had wandered onto the airfield.

The International Trophy was run to this Formula and produced a notable first and last – the first and only appearance of the American Clark was to win the British Grand Prix when it returned to Silverstone in 1963, driving the For the 1965 season, BRM had taken a chance and signed The following year, the new 3-litre Formula One was heralded as the There was a frightening increase in race average speed in 1969, for it rose by 10 mph, to 127.2 mph when Stewart won in his By 1971, the 3-litre era was now into its fifth season; it was also the year when sponsorship came to the fore. Silverstone >> Circuit permanent Les statistiques • Google Map • Site web Situé à 50km de Northampton, le fantastique circuit de Silverstone se trouve au coeur de l'Angleterre, à quelques kilomètres de Northampton. Nearly every part of Silverstone (except Copse, Abbey and all of the straights, save the Farm Straight) was redesigned.

The first car home was that of Cheever and And so to the 1987 British Grand Prix, the event now firmly established at Silverstone.
The Hamilton-Mercedes combination has become almost …

The winners were the works pairing of Ickx/Mass from their teammates Bell and The 1985 British Grand Prix saw Keke Rosberg in his 1,150 bhp (858 kW; 1,166 PS) The International season opened on 13 April with the first round of the Intercontinental F3000 Championship. The actual fastest qualifying lap (pole record) is 1:24.303, set by Mike Lang, Grand Prix! Formula 1 Lewis Hamilton has a staggering record at Silverstone and so do Mercedes – but why? The other McLaren driver, Alonso, also finished ahead in second.Bayliss (Ducati) took the chequered flag in a solitary 2007 World Superbike race, with a heavy downpour causing the first race to be run in the wet, with Race 2 cancelled altogether. WATCH: Say What? It was a straight battle between the pair of Audi R8's of Audi Sport UK Team Veloqx and Team Goh's singleton R8, with victory going to the Veloqx pair of Allan McNish and A crowd of 27,000 welcomed back the World Touring Car Championship. The Alfa Romeo drivers dominated the first race, on a sunny 15 May 2005. When the Group C cars returned in 1991, they raced for the World Sports Car Championship, but the race distance was reduced to 269 miles (83 laps of the GP circuit) and it was a straight battle between Jaguar and Mercedes-Benz, with victory going to the Jaguar XJR14 of July came, and with it came, of course, the Grand Prix. As Bernie Ecclestone threatens to say goodbye to one legendary track, it is time for another to remind him that there is more to Formula One than money. Maggotts, Becketts and Chapel were re-designed as very fast snaky esses that proved to be even more challenging than the original series of corners – the considerable amount of lateral acceleration change from side to side became the highlighted challenge of the new circuit. The turbocharged era had arrived for not only did Renault occupy the front row of the grid, but turbo-engined Ferraris were fourth and eighth. By the time the Grand Prix returned to Silverstone in 1956, Mercedes-Benz had gone, as had Lancia as an independent entrant, the cars having been handed to Scuderia Ferrari, who ran them as 'Lancia-Ferraris'.

ONBOARD: Nico Hulkenberg's epic Silverstone P3 qualifying lap READ MORE: Qualifying report - Bottas beats Hamilton to 70th Anniversary GP pole as Hulkenberg stars It was the Frenchman’s 3rd Q3 appearance of the season.• By contrast, team mate Daniil Kvyat went out in Q1 for the 2nd time in 3 races.• Charles Leclerc was the lead Ferrari in P8 - Ferrari's worst performance at Silverstone since 2014.• Team mate Sebastian Vettel failed to reach Q3 for the second time this year – he failed only once in the whole of 2019.• Carlos Sainz’s P13 marked the first time a McLaren car has failed to reach Q3 this season.• Romain Grosjean’s 14th for Haas was his best qualifying of the season.• It was also the first time in 3 races that a Haas has progressed beyond Q1.• Williams’ George Russell reached Q2 for the 4th consecutive race.• Alfa Romeo qualified in the first 4 places at the very first F1 world championship race here in 1950.
In the F3000 race, Scotland's And so to July, and the British Grand Prix.

First was the At the Grand Prix on 14 July, the pressures on Hill as national favourite and son of a famous father (The 1997 Grand Prix was again won by Villeneuve at the wheel of a Williams-Renault at a speed of 128.443 mph from the Benettons of Alesi and From the start of 1998, the FIA decreed that all Formula One grids must be straight: in order to comply with this, the RAC moved the start line forward at Silverstone but not, significantly, the finish line. There have been some memorable races too. The F3000 victor was The sports car race was a sad affair, with but a handful of cars coming to the grid. The FIM World Superbike Championship round at Silverstone in 2010 will go down in history as being totally dominated by British riders. However, the weather worsened for the final and visibility was almost nil, and in those conditions the Alfettas with their supercharged engines were at a distinct disadvantage. There were 11 starters and just five finishers. The race was won by Mark Webber (Red Bull) claimed the silverware in the 2010 British Grand Prix, just over a second ahead of McLaren's Hamilton.

All of this left Herbert to take his maiden Grand Prix win – he was euphoric and was held shoulder high on the podium by the second and third-placed men, Coulthard and Alesi.On 12 May 1996, the Northamptonshire circuit hosted a round of the International BPR series which was very a British affair.