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The 2015 Britcar 24 Hour Race Silverstone was the 10th running of the Silverstone 24 Hours endurance sports car race held on April 25–26, 2015 at the Silverstone Circuit. [ 1 ] Victory overall and in Class 3 went to the No. 35 Beechdean AMR Aston Martin V8 Vantage driven by Andrew Howard, Jonathan Adam , Harry Whale, Jamie Chadwick , and Ross ...
The following is a list of motor racing venues, ordered by capacity; i.e. the maximum number of spectators they can accommodate.Due to the length of motor racing courses, and the fact that the cars pass each point frequently, it is often not possible to see the entire track from any one seat.
Satellite view of the circuit in 2018. The Silverstone circuit is on the site of a Royal Air Force bomber station, RAF Silverstone, which was operational between 1943 and 1946. [3] The station was the base for the No. 17 Operational Training Unit. The airfield's three runways, in classic WWII triangle format, lie within the outline of the ...
Aerial view of the Silverstone Circuit. The event, which was held over the weekend of 16–18 July, was the only Formula One race at Silverstone in 2021, [7] after the venue had held two races behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom during 2020; the 2020 British Grand Prix was won by Lewis Hamilton, while the other one-off race, the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix ...
The 2019 4 Hours of Silverstone, officially known as the 2019 WEC 4 Hours of Silverstone, was an endurance sportscar racing event held on 1 September 2019, as the opening round of the 2019-20 FIA World Endurance Championship. This was the inaugural running of the race, in a 4 hours format, having previously been run as the 6 Hours of ...
The 2015 6 Hours of Silverstone was a six-hour endurance sports car racing event held for Le Mans Prototype and Le Mans Grand Touring Endurance cars at the Silverstone Circuit near Silverstone, Northamptonshire, England on 12 April 2015 before a crowd of 45,000 spectators.
The last season to have two British races in a season prior to this was the 1993 season, when Donington Park hosted the European Grand Prix and Silverstone hosted the British Grand Prix. [8] It was later revealed that Silverstone offered to hold as many as 12 races in total during the season. [9]
Aerial view of RAF Silverstone in 1945 Photo from Grandstand in 1952. Silverstone Circuit is built on the site of a World War II Royal Air Force bomber station, RAF Silverstone, which opened in 1943. The airfield's three runways, in classic WWII triangle format, lay within the outline of the present track. Since its first use in the 1940s, the ...