Creation date: 1950
Circuit: Silverstone Circuit
First F1 GP: 13 May 1950
Grand Prix held: 41
Spectactor capacity: around 90000
Organiser:
MSA
Press officer
Peter Morris
Tel: (+44) 1327 320312
Fax: (+44) 1327 320333
Informations:
Silverstone Circuit
Near Towcester
Northampton NN12 8TN
United Kingdom
Tel : (+44) 1327 857271
Fax : (+44) 1327 857663
Official Website : http://www.silverstone-circuit.co.uk
Corners
- Copse
- Becketts
- Chapel
- Stowe
- Club
- Abbey
- Bridge
- Priory
- Brooklands
- Luffield
- Woodcote
Number of laps: 60 (308.355 Km)
Number of corners: 14 (left:6) (right:8)
Top speed: 335 Km/h
Start line offset: 105 m
Downforce setup: medium
2007 race weather: dry
Best lap:
M. Schumacher - 1'18''739 (2004, Ferrari) Record Pole:
K. Raikkonen - 1'18''233 (2004, McLaren)Pole 2007:
L. Hamilton - 1'19''997 (McLaren)Podium 2007
K. Raikkonen F. Alonso L. Hamilton
Circuit Info:The first British Grand Prix was held at Silverstone in 1948, and it was only meant to be a one off, as the track was originally an airfield. Giuseppe Farina won the first World Championship race in 1950 for Alfa Romeo.
Forward-wind in time and in 1973, Jody Scheckter spun at Woodcote, the right hander that leads into pit straight, triggering a multiple pile up. The track had its first alteration in 25 years due to this, and they added a chicane at Woodcote for the 1975 race. This was also the track that saw Clay Regazzoni give Williams their first win in 1979.
In 1987, a complex at Woodcote replaced the chicane, and that year Nigel Mansell defeated his team-mate, Nelson Piquet in one of the tracks best races. The track was revamped in 1991, followed by another major rebuild in 1994.
The British fans were overjoyed with Damon Hill's win in 1994, with Johnny Herbert winning for Benetton in one year later. Jacques Villeneuve took the win in both 1996 and 1997 while Michael Schumacher won in controversial circumstances in 1998 when he took victory for the Ferrari team in pit lane.
1999 saw the German suffer a first lap accident that saw him sidelined until the penultimate race of the season with a broken leg. Back in action and raring to go Schumacher returned a year later. He didn't win the event, McLaren driver David Coulthard took that honour ahead of team-mate Mika Hakkinen; however Schumacher still stood on the podium albeit on the third step.
Amid threats of the race being stricken from the F1 calendar due to constant traffic chaos, the 2001 event was won by Mika Hakkinen but Michael Schumacher was on the top step of the rostrum once again in 2002.
Ferrari's Rubens Barrichello clinched victory in the 2003 event, in a race which had been plunged into chaos by a kilt-wearing protestor who ran onto the track in the face of cars speeding past at 200 km/h.
Kimi Raikkonen stormed to Pole Position but the 2004 race fell once again to Michael Schumacher and the Ferrari team. Raikkonen, revelling with the handing of the much-improved MP4-19B introduced two-weeks before, pushed hard, crossing the line just over two seconds behind Schumacher with Barrichello just a second further adrift.
Raikkonen was the man on the move again in 2005 as he worked his way up from his 12th position on the grid to finish third behind his then title rival Fernando Alonso. Out front though Juan Pablo Montoya held on to take the win for McLaren Mercedes. Under pressure to improve the facilities, the British Racing Drivers Club is looking at long-term investment plans for the circuit but as yet, development of the former airfield has yet to get underway.
2006 marked Renault's first win at Silverstone as a constructor since 1983 as Fernando Alonso dominated the race from Pole Position to take the win from Schumacher and Raikkonen by a comfortable margin.
Lewis Hamilton was the centre of attention in what was his first British Grand Prix in 2007, especially after he stormed to the pole position in his McLaren Mercedes.
Hamilton led the early stages of the event, but was jumped by both team-mate Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen in the Ferrari during the first round of pit stops. Hamilton would go on to finish in third position while Raikkonen got ahead of Alonso in the second round of stops to take the win.
Felipe Massa drove a storming race from the back of the field in the second Ferrari after stalling on the grid, taking the chequered flag in fifth position, less than a second behind Robert Kubica in the BMW Sauber.
Forward-wind in time and in 1973, Jody Scheckter spun at Woodcote, the right hander that leads into pit straight, triggering a multiple pile up. The track had its first alteration in 25 years due to this, and they added a chicane at Woodcote for the 1975 race. This was also the track that saw Clay Regazzoni give Williams their first win in 1979.
In 1987, a complex at Woodcote replaced the chicane, and that year Nigel Mansell defeated his team-mate, Nelson Piquet in one of the tracks best races. The track was revamped in 1991, followed by another major rebuild in 1994.
The British fans were overjoyed with Damon Hill's win in 1994, with Johnny Herbert winning for Benetton in one year later. Jacques Villeneuve took the win in both 1996 and 1997 while Michael Schumacher won in controversial circumstances in 1998 when he took victory for the Ferrari team in pit lane.
1999 saw the German suffer a first lap accident that saw him sidelined until the penultimate race of the season with a broken leg. Back in action and raring to go Schumacher returned a year later. He didn't win the event, McLaren driver David Coulthard took that honour ahead of team-mate Mika Hakkinen; however Schumacher still stood on the podium albeit on the third step.
Amid threats of the race being stricken from the F1 calendar due to constant traffic chaos, the 2001 event was won by Mika Hakkinen but Michael Schumacher was on the top step of the rostrum once again in 2002.
Ferrari's Rubens Barrichello clinched victory in the 2003 event, in a race which had been plunged into chaos by a kilt-wearing protestor who ran onto the track in the face of cars speeding past at 200 km/h.
Kimi Raikkonen stormed to Pole Position but the 2004 race fell once again to Michael Schumacher and the Ferrari team. Raikkonen, revelling with the handing of the much-improved MP4-19B introduced two-weeks before, pushed hard, crossing the line just over two seconds behind Schumacher with Barrichello just a second further adrift.
Raikkonen was the man on the move again in 2005 as he worked his way up from his 12th position on the grid to finish third behind his then title rival Fernando Alonso. Out front though Juan Pablo Montoya held on to take the win for McLaren Mercedes. Under pressure to improve the facilities, the British Racing Drivers Club is looking at long-term investment plans for the circuit but as yet, development of the former airfield has yet to get underway.
2006 marked Renault's first win at Silverstone as a constructor since 1983 as Fernando Alonso dominated the race from Pole Position to take the win from Schumacher and Raikkonen by a comfortable margin.
Lewis Hamilton was the centre of attention in what was his first British Grand Prix in 2007, especially after he stormed to the pole position in his McLaren Mercedes.
Hamilton led the early stages of the event, but was jumped by both team-mate Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen in the Ferrari during the first round of pit stops. Hamilton would go on to finish in third position while Raikkonen got ahead of Alonso in the second round of stops to take the win.
Felipe Massa drove a storming race from the back of the field in the second Ferrari after stalling on the grid, taking the chequered flag in fifth position, less than a second behind Robert Kubica in the BMW Sauber.
PAST CHAMPION OF THE TRACK
2007
K.Raikkonen (Ferrari)2006
F.Alonso (Renault)2005
J-P. Montoya (McLaren)2004
M. Schumacher (Ferrari)2003
R. Barrichello (Ferrari)2002
M. Schumacher (Ferrari)2001
M. Hakkinen (McLaren)2000
D. Coulthard (McLaren)1999
D. Coulthard (McLaren)1998
M. Schumacher (Ferrari)1997
J. Villeneuve (Williams)1996
J. Villeneuve (Williams)1995
J. Herbert (Benetton)1994
D. Hill (Williams)1993
A. Prost (Williams)1992
N. Mansell (Williams)1991
N. Mansell (Williams)1990
A. Prost (Ferrari)1989
A. Prost (McLaren)1988
A. Senna (McLaren)
Qualifying
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