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…
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