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With the AMR Technology Campus opposite the main gate of Silverstone Circuit, no one gets a home race quite like us.

Our home is your home. Fans are flooding in, tents are being pitched, the sea of Aston Martin Racing Green is growing – we can feel your support. You're with us on our journey and you're helping to write the story. You're co-creating the culture. You're shaping the sport.

The British Grand Prix is a summertime staple in the sporting and social calendar. This year, it marks the mid-point of the 2025 season, and it often attracts the biggest audience of the campaign. And we're coming home in good form. While Lance had a challenging weekend at the Red Bull Ring and is eager to be back among the points at Silverstone, Fernando's season has really kicked into gear over recent race weekends. Having qualified 11th, he took the hard road in Austria, running the difficult one-stop strategy to come home P7 after a gritty, uncompromising, utterly thrilling end-of-race defence.

Aston Martin Aramco young driver Jak Crawford is back in action as Formula 2 goes back-to-back. He had a tough weekend in Austria but eventually came out of it having moved up to third place in the standings. He was on the podium here last year, and the same again would put him in great shape as the season moves towards its conclusion. We also have Aston Martin Aramco Driver Academy member Mari Boya firing up for Formula 3 at his favourite circuit:

"The layout, the speed, the atmosphere – everything. Silverstone has a special feeling."

We couldn't have put it better ourselves, Mari.

TRACK INSIGHTS

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Maggotts and Becketts. What an incredible series of corners, especially in something high downforce like a Formula One car. It still blows my mind what’s possible.

Jessica Hawkins – Driver Ambassador & Head of F1 Academy

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Circuit length (km)
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Race distance (km)
306.198

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Last time out

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While the climate in Britain isn't quite as grim as people love to make out, there is a tendency to concentrate a lot of outdoor activity into a narrow summer window, which in turn means there's plenty going on at the same time of the Grand Prix. While F1 is at Silverstone, Wimbledon and the Henley Regatta are underway, followed by the Lord's test match the following week. It's also the time of year for outdoor music, which could mean anything from the Marriage of Figaro at Glyndebourne to a bewildering array of festivals to suit all tastes.

Staying a little closer to Silverstone, we're just a few miles away from Stowe House and its world-famous Capability Brown gardens and landscapes, which have been attracting tourists for more than 300 years. Rather less well known until recently is Bletchley Park, now a fascinating museum but formerly the home of the Government Code and Cypher School and the world's first programmable, electronic, digital computer.

Further west is the city of Oxford. With the academic term ending, many of the colleges offer tours – but even without, the city has superb museums, grand buildings, ancient libraries and punts for hire. For those who want something quieter, there are 790 square miles of the idyllic Cotswolds beyond Oxford.

Mastering Silverstone Circuit

Everything is big at Silverstone. It's a long track, with a perimeter layout that covers an enormous acreage, and a sequence of dizzying full-throttle high-speed corners. But since the introduction of the Arena layout, with the section around Village and The Loop introducing lower-speed elements, you need a car that can cope with the low-speed because there's more time to be gained or lost in slower corners.

Mostly though, Silverstone's reputation is still about flinging a car very rapidly through high-speed corners. The run from Luffield (T7) through to Vale (T16) doesn't require the brakes, with everything taken in the higher gears with occasional feathering.

Since a recent resurfacing, the track has become almost universally smooth, with very little warp or camber… but still some problematic bumps. The smoothness encourages teams to run their cars very stiff, to cope with the fast corners and high-speed changes of direction – but the faster the car goes, the closer it gets to the surface where those bumps, particularly running into Copse, can be very destabilising.

Wind direction feeds into this too. Silverstone is on a plateau and very exposed, which made it a good location for an airfield. If it's blowing from the South, then everywhere from Copse, through the hugely fast Maggotts-Becketts-Chapel section and into Stowe has a lot more downforce, and becomes all about power delivery – but a wind from the North, and the cars will be on the very limit of grip through those sections.

The magic of racing in Silverstone

In terms of audience numbers, there are a couple of races vying to be number one, but the British Grand Prix took top spot in 2024 with 480,000 spectators across the four days. It feels busy, rather than crowded, however, because it's a big circuit, on a sizeable property.

Access can be tricky so it's always been a race for campsites, which turns the British Grand Prix into a week-long party, with the larger, official campsites having stages, driver appearances, celebrity guests and bands. The official stage within the circuit has Blossoms and Sam Fender appearing on Thursday, JADE and RAYE on Friday, Mabel and Fatboy Slim Saturday, Becky Hill and Idris Elba on Sunday.

Silverstone is a very spectator-friendly circuit. Quite which is the best view depends on what you're most interested in. The view from Becketts shows off F1 cars at their absolute best, going through the fast corners there at boggling speed. The Woodcote A grandstand shows overtaking at the end of the Wellington Straight and the tussles that follow through Brooklands and Luffield, while Club Corner gives you a view of the pit-lane and the podium.

What is unusual is that every corner at Silverstone can be seen from one of the general admission zones. It might be a little distant, and the view not quite as elevated as from the grandstand, but for anyone prepared to cover the distance, you can see a lot of track with the cheapest ticket.

Strategy insights from Silverstone

Last year's race was the most British Grand Prix it could possibly be with a mixture of blazing sunshine, overcast conditions, heavy rain and blazing sunshine again. It made for a thrilling race, but it isn't particularly something that presents any pointers for strategy.

Going back to 2023, however, we see a predominantly one-stop race, with most cars starting on the Medium tyre. It then became a choice of Hard or Soft for the second stint – but not necessarily based on how far the drivers got. We never got to see it play out fully because a mid-race Safety Car cut short the tactical battle.

Pirelli has moved down a step in its tyre range for 2025. Silverstone is a race where history suggests the hardest tyres available will be used, and consistent with that, the C1, C2 and C3 have been on offer in previous years. But the current era of ground effect cars have huge amounts of aerodynamic grip, slide around less and therefore aren't putting the same amount of lateral energy into the rubber. Seeing cars do a one-stop with C2 and C3 does suggest the tyres are a little too hard to create strategy options – so this year we have C2, C3 and C4..

This offers more options in the race and may create Pirelli's favoured strategy dilemma of one-stoppers being chased down by two-stoppers on fresher rubber in the final few laps. But we may have to wait for another year, as the forecast for the weekend suggests the Inters and Wets may be in the mix too.

Ultimate British Grand Prix facts

1 | This is the 76th FIA Formula One World Championship British Grand Prix, it is one of only two ever-present events on the World Championship calendar, the other being the Italian Grand Prix.

2 | Silverstone has hosted 58 of the previous 75 British Grands Prix, including the first F1 World Championship event, on 13 May 1950 (a Saturday). It also hosted the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix, in 2020, when the demands of the ad-hoc calendar in response to the global pandemic required Silverstone to host back-to-back races.

3 | Three circuits have hosted the British Grand Prix during the World Championship era. The other two are Liverpool's Aintree Circuit, which was used in 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961, and 1962, and Brands Hatch in Kent, which was used in even-numbered years from 1964-1986.

4 | Fernando had a victory here, winning the race in 2006 on his way to winning the Drivers' Championship for a second time.

5 | Fernando also started his 300th Grand Prix at this circuit… all the way back in 2018.

6 | Much of the Silverstone Circuit dates back to the hastily converted airfield perimeter track used for the 1948 (pre-Championship) British Grand Prix. It has, however, gone through many iterations, with the current 5.891km 'Arena' version of the circuit used since 2011 – 2010 used a similar track but 10 metres longer and with the old pitlane between Woodcote and Copse corners).

7 | Of the 15 British Grands Prix using this Arena layout, the driver starting on pole has won six times, with only Fernando (P3) and Lewis Hamilton (P6) winning from off the front row.

Last time out

Roy Salvadori and Carroll Shelby had a very spritely Qualifying session for the 1959 British Grand Prix at Aintree, getting both DBR4s onto the front two rows – Aston Martin's first front row in F1. Salvadori started P2 and Shelby P6 – the grid was three cars wide – but sadly neither recorded a point. Salvadori came home P6 – only the top five scored – while Selby suffered an ignition problem and retired six laps from home. In 1960, Salvadori recorded a DNF and Maurice Trintignant qualified P21 to come home P11 in what would be Aston Martin's final Grand Prix until its return to the grid in 2021.

Salvadori's 1959 result remains Aston Martin's best at the British Grand Prix, but we have scored points at each race since returning to F1 in 2021. Lance bagged our first points, with eighth place in 2021, Sebastian Vettel was ninth in 2022 and Fernando seventh in 2023. Last year was the first time both cars came home in the points, with Lance seventh and Fernando eighth, having started eighth and tenth respectively, negotiating their way through a couple of tricky periods when the rain started to fall.

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