F1 Track Stats: facts and statistics about Silverstone Circuit | 2021 British GP. Facts and statistics about Silverstone Circuit.

The Silverstone track is 5.8 kilometres long and its layout consists of 18 corners, making it one of the most technically demanding of the season. The drivers love the flowing nature of the corners which require a high level of downforce to ensure a very precise turn-in to the corners. One of the delights here is to see the cars dance through the esses of Maggots, Becketts and Chapel (Turns 10-14), which gets the adrenalin rushing.

Silverstone circuit is possibly the least demanding track when it comes to brakes, as drivers only spend 8% of the lap with their left foot jammed on the brake pedal. The flowing nature of the track and the wide radius turns don’t require much retardation. However, if the weather turns nasty, then keep the whole braking system up to temperature can be problematic, leading to glazing of the discs.

SILVERSTONE CIRCUIT STATS

The longest streak of different winners at this track came between 2003 and 2010, when there were no repeat winners for eight seasons.

The British Grand Prix at Silverstone has been won by over a lap on five occasions. Alberto Ascari was first to finish a lap ahead of everyone else in 1952 and since then Juan Manuel Fangio in 1956, Jackie Stewart in 1969, Emerson Fittipaldi in 1975 and Alain Prost in 1985 have all joined the Italian in completing the feat.

Scuderia Ferrari still hold the record for the most consecutive team wins at Silverstone. They won the event on all six occasions that the British Grand Prix was held at the track between 1951 and 1958.

Alberto Ascari, Jim Clark, Jackie Stewart, Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell, Jacques Villeneuve, David Coulthard and Lewis Hamilton are the eight drivers who have taken back-to-back wins at the circuit. Hamilton has the most consecutive wins at the circuit, with four victories in a row between 2014 and 2017.

British drivers have over three times more victories at Silverstone than any other nation. The British national anthem has played out 22 times at the circuit.

The smallest win margin at Silverstone is 0.765 seconds, which is the amount Nico Rosberg won the 2013 event by.

A Grand Prix at Silverstone has been won by less than ten seconds on 17 occasions. A race at the track has been won by less than five seconds on thirteen occasions, including four times since the configuration of the track was updated in 2010.

Ferrari are the team with the most podium finishes at the track. They have finished in the top three 44 times. McLaren are next on the list with 27 top three appearances.

There have been four races at this circuit where none of the top three qualifiers have finished on the podium. It has happened in 1979, 1981, 2008 and 2014.

The lowest grid position a podium finish has come from at Silverstone is 28th. This happened at the 1954 British Grand Prix, when Onofre Marimón finished third having started 28th in a thirty-car field.

From the 54 races at the Silverstone circuit, the polesitter has finished on the podium 32 times.