The self-styled “Home of British Motorsport”, Silverstone, is one of the originals—it hosted the very first World Championship Grand Prix in 1950 and it remains a part of the series today, despite a near death experience in 2010 when the race was supposed to move to Donington Park. It is a truly fast circuit, or at least it was before the traditional “bent banana” layout became progressively more emasculated from 1991 onwards, and particularly post-Senna.
Surprisingly, however, Silverstone wasn’t that quick in 1950: in fact it was one of the slowest circuits of the era. The fastest lap in that 1950 GP was a mere 94.02 mph while Reims, Spa and Monza all saw laps at over 110 mph—Monza being quickest at 117.44.
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