Silverstone has held the British Grand Prix continuously since 1987, longer than any other circuit, and returns to it each July.
The British Grand Prix, Formula One’s home race, returns to Silverstone Circuit in Northamptonshire from Thursday 1 to Sunday 4 July 2027. Race day is Sunday 4 July.
The race was first run at Brooklands in 1926. In 1948 it moved to a decommissioned bomber airfield in Northamptonshire, whose perimeter track became Silverstone. The circuit held the opening round of the first world championship in 1950.
The race alternated with Aintree and Brands Hatch until 1987 and has been held at Silverstone alone since, longer than any other venue has held it. Since 2017 the circuit has added permanent grandstands, a hotel and a technology campus to the old airfield.
Drivers rate the sequence of Copse, Maggotts, Becketts and Chapel among the hardest on the calendar, taken at speeds that reward aerodynamic load. Most of the grid is designed and built within an hour’s drive of the circuit.
The winner takes the Royal Automobile Club Trophy, and older awards go to the chief mechanic and for the fastest lap. The meeting now opens on the Thursday and runs the Sprint format for a second year. Robbie Williams headlines the Opening Concert.