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    The Classic at Silverstone to honour Sir Frank

    Jul 20, 2022 3 minutes

    THE BRITISH GRAND PRIX MAY BE over and done with for another season, but there’s still plenty of Formula 1 action still to come at Silverstone as this year’s Classic gets ready to showcase an unprecedented amount of both modern and historic grand prix machinery.

    The Silverstone Classic returns over the August Bank Holiday weekend (26-28) and will feature a packed programme of 20 historic racing grids, with this year’s event having a heavy emphasis on Formula 1 thanks a new tribute to the life of Sir Frank Williams.

    With the Williams Grand Prix Engineering team being Silverstone and Williams are intrinsically linked, with Sir Frank’s team scoring its first of 114 grand prix victories there back in 1979 when Clay Regazzoni won with the FW07. Sir Frank also marked his 50th anniversary of being an F1 team boss at the track in 2019. He died last November at the age of 79.

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