British Grand Prix archive
Silverstone Arena track laid (Pictures)
Tarmac for the new Arena sequence at Silverstone, which will be used for the 2010 British Grand Prix, had been laid.
Pictures released by the circuit today also show the revised run-off areas at Brooklands and Woodcote corners towards the end of the lap.
Managing Director of Silverstone Circuits Richard Phillips said work was progressing according to [...]
Silverstone knocks down grandstands to build new Arena circuit (Pictures)
Silverstone has begun work to build the new “Arena” circuit which it intends to use for this year’s British Grand Prix.
The grandstands opposite the pits have been knocked down and several bridges have also been removed as the circuit’s remodelling begins.
These stands will be re-constructed in time for this year’s race and the circuit’s maximum [...]
F1 race ticket discounts run out soon
Buying F1 tickets isn’t cheap but you can get the best deals if you book quickly. Tracks are offering discounts of up to 20% if you buy your tickets within the next few weeks.
Bahrain, Sepang, Catalunya, Silverstone and Spa are all offering discounts for their 2010 F1 races. Here’s where the best bargains can be [...]
Silverstone to use “more exciting” Moto GP track for 2010 F1 race (Pictures)
Silverstone intends to use a new track layout for the 2010 British Grand Prix.
The new circuit will include most of Silverstone’s signature high-speed bends such as Copse, Maggotts, Becketts and Stowe, but not the high-speed Bridge corner.
But a circuit spokesperson told F1 Fanatic he expected the new circuit to be “equally, if not more exciting” [...]
2010 British Grand Prix deal done (updated)
Alan Henry claims on the Guardian’s website that the British Grand Prix will be on the 2010 F1 calendar and stay there until 2014.
The story claims a five-year deal with Silverstone to host the British Grand Prix has been struck and will be announced tomorrow. That would coincide with the race-holding British Racing Drivers’ Club’s [...]
Another Donington deadline missed: will Ecclestone give Silverstone its race back?
Donington Park’s plan to hold the British Grand Prix in 2010 had its doubters from the start, and it looks like they were right all along.
Yesterday Donington missed its deadline to confirm it had the funding in place to complete the building work at the track in time for the race – a deadline that [...]
Ecclestone wants Donington Park and Silverstone to share British Grand Prix
Bernie Ecclestone has changed his mind on the future of the British Grand Prix yet again.
To recap, he started the year saying there was no way the 2010 race would be held anywhere other then Donington Park. He later suggested in an interview with The Times that this wasn’t the case, and then took those [...]
Upgrade works for Red Bull and McLaren ditch KERS (British Grand Prix round-up)
An aerodynamic upgrade for Red Bull helped wing the performance advantage their way – while cool temperatures at Silverstone left championship leader Jenson Button flummoxed.
Meanwhile yet another team abandoned KERS leaving Ferrari the only team still using the energy recovery devices – although Felipe Massa reckoned it paid dividends for him at the start of [...]
Silverstone F1 crowd exceeds 310,000
Before this year’s British Grand Prix I pointed out that it would be madness for F1 to leave behind a circuit that regularly gets huge crowds.
And so it proved as Silverstone packed in a capacity audience of 120,000 on Sunday. Buoyed by the success of Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button its three-day total attendance of [...]
British Grand Prix stats and facts
McLaren have failed to score point for four races – the first time that’s happened since 1981.
But it’s all good for Sebastian Vettel, who joins the ranks of F1 drivers to score a ‘hat-trick’ in a Grand Prix. Here are the stats and facts from the British Grand Prix.
