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- The Grand Prix Arrives
- BRDC Takes Over Control of All Leases
- Significant Remodelling Brings Extra Driver Challenges
- More Changes Bring New Courses
- The Wing Complex Secures F1's Future
So it was that the first Grand Prix was run at the beginning of October 1948, though on a significantly different course to what would subsequently follow. Using both main runways and part of the perimeter roads, the course was laid out with oil barrels and straw bales, spectators held back from the track edge by nothing more robust than a rope lin...
In 1961 the BRDC acquired the lease to the agricultural land both within and around the circuit, increasing the opportunities for future development. After two accidents in the then 'open face' pit facilities, a new pit lane – separate from the main track and on an elevated platform – was built in 1964, greatly improving safety for competitors and ...
Further significant redevelopment happened over the winter of 1990, designed to take the circuit through the 1990s. The run off at Copse was increased by tightening the entry and re-routing the corner, while the original Becketts corner was by passed with a sweeping – and high speed – series of corners forming a new Maggotts/Becketts/Chapel Curve s...
More alterations were made in 1996, when a better solution was found for Stowe Corner; by adding a gradual kink towards the end of the Hangar Straight and moving the track towards the infield, greater room was created for run-off and a faster Stowe could once again be restored. Another new addition at this part of the track was the self-contained S...
Uncertainty over the future of the Formula One race (which had flirted with plans to race first at a redeveloped Brands Hatch and then committed to Donington Park) led to Silverstone bosses begin to look elsewhere for its headline event. Plans to bring back the MotoGP racers for the first time since 1986 were hatched, and with it a much revised cir...
Explore the Silverstone racing circuit with circuit diagram, lap times, race history & many more details from the motorsport database.
Further along the track, the Stowe grandstands will place you at one of the best overtaking spots, while watching the drivers chuck their cars into that corner on their own is nearly as good. Get up to speed with everything you need to know about the British Grand Prix and the Silverstone Circuit.
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See all Silverstone Circuit wiki info & details: ️Check out the corner names, lap records, circuit length, track layout & speeds & all top 3 finishers in F1 history.
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Website F1 Master Map 2023. BECKETTS. CLUB SILVERSTONE. COPSE C. COPSE B. COPSE A. GA PLUS COPSE A TERRACE STIRLING B.
