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Jul 4, 2025, 11:07 AM ET
Formula 1 celebrates 75 years this twelvemonth since the athletics was formalised into a satellite championship.
The British Grand Prix astatine Silverstone was the archetypal expansive prix of the satellite title successful 1950, and the contention has been connected the calendar each twelvemonth since, but astatine assorted locations.
ESPN highlights immoderate of the moments from 75 years of the iconic expansive prix.
The archetypal determination for the expansive prix was Silverstone, a erstwhile airfield, successful May wherever Italian operator Emilio Giuseppe 'Nino' Farina won the contention and took a cleanable expanse of pole, and fastest thigh crossed the weekend.
Farina of Alfa Romeo went connected to triumph the title which had conscionable 7 races.
Some familar sights successful the paddock with Pirelli, who were successful F1 at the beginning, though teams had a prime of tyre supplier backmost then.
Argentine racing operator Juan Manuel Fangio, (by past a three-time satellite champion) won the 1956 contention with Ferrari -- it would beryllium his lone triumph astatine the British Grand Prix.
Fangio went connected to go the sport's astir palmy operator with 5 satellite championships -- including 1956 -- until helium was surpassed by Michael Schumacher with 7 satellite titles, and again by Lewis Hamilton with seven.
Between 1955 and 1963, Silverstone and Aintree (Liverpool) -- the second thought to beryllium Britain's lone purpose-built expansive prix circuit -- alternated arsenic hosts of the British Grand Prix, and successful 1957 it was Aintree's turn.
Stirling Moss and Tony Brooks of the Vanwall squad shared the driving successful the 1957 edition, which meant they shared the trophy too.
As the cars became quicker, information astatine Aintree became a interest with its fewer run-off areas and small country for error, and F1 yet stuck to the southbound with the instauration of Brands Hatch.
From the mid-1960s up to 1986, Brands Hatch and Silverstone alternated arsenic hosts for the British Grand Prix.
In 1966, three-time champion Jack Brabham -- the archetypal Austrialian to triumph an F1 rubric and laminitis of the squad -- started connected rod position, arsenic the contention was won by Jody Scheckter of Tyrrell/Ford.
Brabham aboriginal go nether the ownership of F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone crossed the 1970s.
Desiré Wilson entered 1 F1 satellite title contention -- the 1980 British Grand Prix astatine Brands Hatch. A fewer months anterior astatine the aforesaid circuit, she became the lone pistillate to triumph a post-war F1 (non-championship) race.
However, aft aggregate changes successful her set-up pre-session and a antithetic car to 1 she had tested successful -- an uncompetitive Williams FW07 -- she finished past and failed to suffice for the race.
She went connected to triumph successful different endurance series, and has a grandstand named aft her astatine Brands Hatch.
Brands Hatch besides played big nether the guise of the European Grand Prix a mates of times -- the determination of which would alteration each fewer years.
But 1986 would beryllium the last clip a Formula 1 Grand Prix was held astatine Brands Hatch, for adjacent reasons to Aintree's demise arsenic host. Silverstone was the lone circuit large capable to accommodate to bigger and faster cars successful the UK.
There person been galore iconic and memorable moments astatine the British Grand Prix implicit the years, but a instrumentality favourite is erstwhile Nigel Mansell gave Ayrton Senna a lift connected the broadside of his Williams FW14.
Mansell took a cleanable expanse of the play with rod position, fastest thigh and contention win, and Senna ran retired of substance connected the past lap, becoming stranded. On his cool-down lap, Mansell gave Senna a assistance backmost to the pits, overmuch to the daze of the stewards.
Both drivers appeared to get distant with it without a reprimand.
Fernando Alonso, connected his mode to a 2nd satellite title that aforesaid year, won the British Grand Prix successful 2006, and again successful 2011.
The Silverstone circuit has undergone galore changes since this changeable successful 2006, and perchance galore more.
Since determination is appetite for a British Grand Prix to remain, but nary wide rival host, it's expected that Silverstone volition enactment connected the calendar for the forseeable, according to F1 brag Stefano Domenicali.
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Enter the Lewis Hamilton era...
Hamilton is statistically the astir palmy operator successful F1 with 7 satellite titles, 105 contention wins and 104 rod positions. He besides holds the triumph grounds astatine the British Grand Prix (Silverstone) with nine...
Hamilton's triumph tally astatine Silverstone continued to past year's expansive prix -- his last twelvemonth with Mercedes -- erstwhile helium claimed a stunning triumph against the likelihood to extremity a winning drought that stretched backmost to 2021.
Hamilton, present with Ferrari, is yet to podium successful a contention arsenic the British Grand Prix marks the halfway constituent successful the season.
