The next round of GrandPrix Online’s championship will be held in Northamptonshire, Great Britain. The circuit of Silverstone is exactly the halfway point for this season. In Challenge Drazen Cokor leads with 92 points, whilst in the Sprint series has Malcolm Rice still as leader with 144 points.

The Track

Silverstones new lay-out made the track a little longer as it used to be, namely 5.901 meters long. This means the laps to be completed drop to 52 for Challenge and 26 for sprint. The track is on an old airfield. It is famous for it’s flowing corners like Maggots, Becketts and Chapel. The fast Bridge-corner has disappeared in the new lay out, drivers have to make a fast right turn in Abbey instead of left, leading to the brand new Arena part of the track, and return to the old track at Brooklands.

Silverstone after all

Last years GrandPrix on this track seemed the last Formula 1 race there. Donington Park should be the host of the 2010 Grand Prix onward. Donington couldn’t get the financial part of the deal closed, which led to a return on this amazing track. The next seventeen years, Silverstone hosts the Grand Prix of Great Britain. A lot of spectators are happy with this outcome

GrandPrix Online weekend

Qualifying for Challenge will commence at 18:45 GMT this Saturday, whilst the race will go green at 19:30 GMT.
For Sprint, qualifying starts at 9:00 GMT, whilst the race starts at 9:45 GMT this Sunday.

If there will be a broadcast is until now uncertain.