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A bleak data reality

Silverstone’s expanse is flat, wide, spacious – it’s what made it an ideal spot for an airfield. The track is famously flat too, and the circuit’s wide and spacious nature is the reason it’s one of the few venues in the UK that can actually accommodate everything required to host a Formula 1 grand prix.

Wide and spacious apply to the Wing complex also. In the summer of 2020, the pit building-cum-exhibition space (in ‘normal’ times) is strictly organised as per the track’s COVID-secure protocols. It’s a warren

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