The British Grand Prix is a race in the calendar of the FIA Formula One World Championship. It is currently held at the Silverstone Circuit near the village of Silverstone in Northamptonshire.
Grand Prix motor racing was first...
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The British Grand Prix is a race in the calendar of the FIA Formula One World Championship. It is currently held at the Silverstone Circuit near the village of Silverstone in Northamptonshire.
Grand Prix motor racing was first established in Britain by Henry Segrave at the Brooklands course in 1926 after his winning of the French Grand Prix in 1923 and the following year at the Spanish Grand Prix which raised interest in the sport. The first ever British Grand Prix was won by the French team of Louis Wagner and Robert Sénéchal driving a Delage 155B. During the 1930s, the race was known as the Donington Grand Prix, in reference to the host track Donington Park.
Silverstone has hosted the race regularly since the start of the F1 championship in 1950 (in which it was the first race of the first ever official World Championship) and every year since 1987; it alternated with Brands Hatch between 1964 and 1986, and with Aintree (better known as a horse-racing course) between 1955 and 1962.
Before track was heavily modified in 1991, Silverstone was one of the fastest tracks on the Formula 1 calendar. The drivers loved the challenge of the sweeping and extremely demanding Copse, Stowe and Club corners. 1982 World Champion Keke Rosberg held the all-time Formula 1 qualifying lap record for 16 years after posting fastest time for the 1985 British Grand prix with an average speed of 258.983km/h(160.92mph).
In recent times Silverstone has produced some fine race wins by British drivers. Notably John Watson (1981), Nigel Mansell (1987, 1991, 1992), Damon Hill (1994) and David Coulthard (1999, 2000). -- source www.wikipedia.org
The survival of the British Grand Prix would appear to be looming as Silverstone bosses have announced that the Northamptonshire venue is close to signing a deal. Circuit owners have a fortnight on Wednesday in which to confirm a contract with Formula 1 commercial rights holder Bernie Ecclestone as signed and sealed.
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A deal for next year's British Grand Prix to remain at Silverstone is imminent, according to Silverstone Holdings managing director Richard Phillips.
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Bernie Ecclestone has warned that he is ready to remove the British Grand Prix from the 2010 F1 calendar if Silverstone are unable to secure the contracts that they need.
Ecclestone has said that if Silverstone’s owners are unable to find the funding they require to secure the deal by the time the World Motor [...]
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Business Secretary Peter Mandelson on Sunday urged motor racing chief Bernie Ecclestone to safeguard the future of the British Grand Prix, but said no state funds would be used to broker a deal. Silverstone is back in pole position to host the 2010 race after rival circuit Donington missed a final deadline to show that funds for redevelopment were in place. Ecclestone said on Friday it was now up to Silverstone to prove it could find the 12 million pounds to host next year's race. But... Read Full Story
Damon Hill believes it is still possible that a deal can be agreed with Formula One rights holder Bernie Ecclestone to preserve the future of the British Grand Prix. Plans for Donington Park to take over from Silverstone, host of the last 23 British Grand Prix, appeared to collapse after track operators issued a statement Friday that a bond issue attempt to raise 135 million pounds (147 million euros) for circuit modernisation had proved unsuccessful. Technically, Donington still has until... Read Full Story
Former Formula One champion Damon Hill is trying to bring the British Grand Prix back to Silverstone next year amid fears the race could be dropped from the calendar. F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone seems convinced that Donington Park will fail to meet Tuesday's deadline to find the cash to redevelop its circuit. That leaves him with three options — he finds the cash himself, the race goes back to Silverstone or is dropped from the 2010 schedule. Hill, the 1996 F1 champ, is president of the... Read Full Story
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