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    Silverstone Circuit is a motor racing circuit in England, near the Northamptonshire villages of Silverstone and Whittlebury. It is the home of the British...
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    4 Hours of Silverstone (formerly the 1000 km of Silverstone and 6 Hours of Silverstone) is an endurance sports car race held at Silverstone Circuit near...
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    Zeltweg Air Base (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Styria, the idea for the track came from the United Kingdom's success at Silverstone Circuit, also built on the site of an airfield. However, the track engineers...
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    Bathurst 1000 (redirect from Bathurst 500)
    Armstrong 500 with a 500 mile race distance at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit; it was relocated to Bathurst in 1963 also with the 500 mile distance...
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    lengths of endurance races can be running for 500 kilometres (310 mi), or roughly 3 hours, or 1,000 kilometres (620 mi), or roughly 6 hours. Longer races...
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    Jaguar to fifth). The car, road-registered HKV 500, was converted to right-hand drive for Silverstone. Two other XK120s took part. One, driven by Peter...
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    Championship of Drivers. The opening race of the season was held at Silverstone Circuit, in front of 150,000 spectators. Farina won, with teammates Luigi...
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  • it lasted, and Hawthorn held off Fangio, leading the first 25 laps at Silverstone in the British GP. He retired the car before half distance owing to deteriorating...
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    Super Touring (category Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile)
    Alfa Romeo were stripped of the points they earned at Snetterton and Silverstone (although this decision was later reversed by appeal) and in return,...
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    lateral g-forces (albeit in only one direction) as a Formula One driver at Silverstone. Weather also plays a different role in each discipline. Road racing...
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    street circuit. Fangio also finished second at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone after his horrendously fuel-inefficient Alfa had to make two lengthy...
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    (Amendment) Order 2020 587 The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Silverstone and Turweston) Regulations 2020 588 The Health Protection (Coronavirus...
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    Alberto Ascari (category Indianapolis 500 drivers)
    Club and is generally considered the first British Grand Prix, at the Silverstone Circuit. With Maserati he won the first 1949 Buenos Aires Grand Prix...
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    Toyota TS030 Hybrid (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Hours of Silverstone, saw Toyota bring two 2012-specification cars in place of the updated 2013 chassis. Nakajima was absent from Silverstone because of...
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    Spa 24 Hours (category Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps)
    the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot, Belgium. It is currently sponsored by CrowdStrike. The Spa 24 Hours was conceived by Jules de Their and Henri...
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    "The History of British Motorsport and Motor Racing at Silverstone". Silverstone. Silverstone.co.uk. Retrieved 31 October 2009. "F1 Champions: Dan Wheldon...
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    brother Simon, who raced Minis, was preparing his car for a race at Silverstone that weekend. The Ridges took Hunt to see the race, which began his obsession...
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    Dan Gurney (category Indianapolis 500 drivers)
    England and entered it in several "saloon car" (sedan) races. In a race at Silverstone in 1962, he led the local Jaguar drivers handily until a wheel broke...
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    hopes of winning the BTCC in 2006 alive, but a poor qualifying run at Silverstone finally ended his hopes. He beat Colin Turkington to 2nd in the championship...
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    run-off and room to expand, something Silverstone as a former World War II airfield had in acres. Silverstone and the BRDC had signed a seven-year contract...
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    and is one of the races—along with the Monaco Grand Prix and Indianapolis 500—that form the Triple Crown of Motorsport, and is also one of the races alongside...
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    championship. It returned to the 1,000-kilometre distance, and was re-opened to sports cars. 1999 – the distance was reduced to 500 km, and it again became eligible...
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  • world championship race, the 1950 British Grand Prix, took place at Silverstone Circuit in the United Kingdom on 13 May 1950. Giuseppe Farina, competing...
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    the 1000 km was held as a part of the Le Mans Endurance Series (LMES). The 500 km Nürburgring was also similar event for smaller sportscars during the 1960s...
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    front-wheel drive lap records at the Magny-Cours, Spa-Francorchamps, Silverstone, Estoril, Hungaroring and Mount Panorama circuits. The Nürburgring record...
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    on almost all of the high speed (Hockenheim, Österreichring, Monza, Silverstone) and high-altitude tracks (Interlagos, Kyalami), but by 1982, the turbo...
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    Rubens Barrichello (category Indianapolis 500 drivers)
    points on the final lap—a high-speed collision with Mark Blundell at Silverstone, and mechanical failures at Barcelona and in Hungary. Barrichello finished...
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    2010 – Race Results". Racing Sports Cars. Retrieved 12 May 2013. "Silverstone 1000 kilometres 2010 – Race Results". Racing Sports Cars. Retrieved 12 May 2013...
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    using certified equipment. At the Formula Student competition at the Silverstone Circuit in July 2013, the electric powered car of the ETH Zurich won...
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  • Motorsport Memorial. Retrieved 2013-07-22. "Driver killed testing car for 500-mile race". Milwaukee Sentinel. Archived from the original on 2015-12-22...
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