Aintree Circuit layout & records

Aintree Circuit Details

Location:Aintree F1 Circuit Aintree, England
Event:British Grand Prix
Used:1955-1962
Type:Closed Circuit
 Lap Dist.:4.828 km

Aintree Circuit Lap Record

Lap Record:1:55.000 min
Date:21 July 1962
F1 Driver:Jim Clark
F1 Car:Lotus 25 Climax
Speed:151.137 km/h

Onboard Lap F1 Video

Lotus 33 driven by Jim Clark French GP, Clermont Ferrand, 27 June 1965 (2)Aintree Circuit

Aintree F1 Circuit Layout

Aintree circuit layout UK

 

History

 

Aintree Circuit History


Liverpool briefly reverberated to the sounds of racing cars as well as horses' hooves at the home of the Grand National, Aintree.

Struggling to make the National Hunt course pay its way with just a few meetings a year, Aintree owner Mirabel Topham hit upon the idea of building a Grand Prix course after a visit to Goodwood.

At a cost of £100,000, the largely flat circuit measured exactly three miles and was built in just three months, opening in May 1954.

Initially operating anti-clockwise, by the start of the 1955 season the circuit direction was reversed. Aintree was awarded the British Grand Prix that year, Stirling Moss making history by being the first British driver to win his home race.

Aintree also witnessed history when it hosted the 1957 Grand Prix, with Moss and Tony Brooks winning for Vanwall - the first such success by British drivers in a British car.

Further Grands Prix were held in 1959, '61 and '62, with the circuit ever popular with spectators because it shared grandstands with the horse racing track, giving unrivalled views of the whole course.

However, Mrs Topham announced that Aintree was to be sold off for redevelopment and the Grand Prix circus never came back. The racecourse was never in built upon, but the ownership became a long-drawn out sage until the Jockey Club took control.

A shorter club circuit was created by linking Railway Straight and Cottage Corner with a hairpin, and this was used for races until July 1982. In a club meeting five cars went off course, apparently damaging fences on the horse track, and the Jockey Club called an immediate halt to racing.

Both circuits still survive today, however. The club course now hosts the occasional sprint meeting while the Grand prix course still finds action once a year - by the TV car at the Grand National!

Driver Ranking

 

Driver Ranking Aintree Circuit

DriverGP  1st  2nd  3rd  Pod  Pole  FL  Avg GridAvg PosPoints
1United Kingdom Stirling Moss62103235.79.320.5
2Australia Jack Brabham510011011.46.213
3Germany Wolfgang von Trips11001004.01.09
4United Kingdom Jim Clark21001114.59.59
5United Kingdom Tony Brooks41001016.511.54
6Italy Luigi Musso20101009.53.58
7Argentina Juan Manuel Fangio20101003.07.56
8United Kingdom John Surtees20101006.013.56
9United States Phil Hill20101106.59.56
10New Zealand Bruce McLaren30022018.74.78.5
11Germany Karl Kling10011004.03.04
12United States Richie Ginther20011005.08.04
13United Kingdom Mike Hawthorn20011008.54.54
14France Maurice Trintignant40000006.510.55
15Italy Piero Taruffi10000005.04.03
16United Kingdom Graham Hill30000008.311.73
17United States Harry Schell40000008.011.83
18United Kingdom Roy Salvadori500000012.210.23
19Sweden Jo Bonnier40000009.315.02
20South Africa Tony Maggs200000018.59.51
21United Kingdom Horace Gould100000022.017.00
22United Kingdom Gerry Ashmore100000026.028.00
23United Kingdom John Campbell-Jones10000000.024.00
24United States Carroll Shelby10000006.014.00
25United Kingdom Les Leston100000012.015.00
26Italy Lorenzo Bandini100000021.012.00
27United Kingdom Leslie Marr100000019.020.00
28Belgium Olivier Gendebien10000000.031.00
29Germany Hans Herrmann100000019.020.00
30United Kingdom Lance Macklin100000016.08.00
31United Kingdom Kenneth McAlpine100000017.013.00
32United Kingdom Tim Parnell100000029.026.00
33United States Jay Chamberlain100000020.015.00
34United Kingdom Chris Bristow100000016.010.00
35United Kingdom Mike Taylor100000024.023.00
36United Kingdom Peter Walker100000014.019.00
37Switzerland Jo Siffert10000000.026.00
38United Kingdom Bob Gerard100000018.06.00
39Brazil Fritz d'Orey100000020.015.00
40France André Simon10000008.022.00
41United Kingdom Tony Marsh100000027.024.00
42United Kingdom Trevor Taylor100000010.08.00
43Italy Giancarlo Baghetti100000019.023.00
44United Kingdom David Piper100000022.021.00
45United Kingdom Ken Wharton100000015.09.00
46Brazil Hernando da Silva Ramos100000018.015.00
47New Zealand Tony Shelly100000018.021.00
48United Kingdom Peter Ashdown100000023.012.00
49United Kingdom Tony Rolt100000014.019.00
50Belgium Lucien Bianchi100000030.020.00
51Italy Massimo Natili100000028.030.00
52United Kingdom Stuart Lewis-Evans10000006.07.00
53United Kingdom Ron Flockhart100000011.016.00
54Argentina Carlos Menditeguy100000011.017.00
55France Mike Sparken100000023.07.00
56France Robert Manzon100000011.024.00
57United States Tony Settember100000019.011.00
58United Kingdom Alan Stacey100000012.08.00
59United Kingdom Brian Naylor100000014.022.00
60Argentina Roberto Mieres10000006.011.00
61Germany Wolfgang Seidel200000021.518.50
62United Kingdom Ivor Bueb200000018.510.50
63United Kingdom Keith Greene200000013.020.00
64United Kingdom Henry Taylor200000019.020.00
65Italy Eugenio Castellotti200000011.013.50
66United Kingdom Innes Ireland20000005.013.00
67Netherlands Carel Godin de Beaufort200000017.515.00
68United Kingdom Jackie Lewis200000015.018.50
69United States Dan Gurney20000009.08.00
70France Jean Behra20000002.516.50
71United Kingdom Peter Collins300000013.79.70
72United Kingdom Jack Fairman300000017.016.70
73United States Masten Gregory300000011.78.30
74United Kingdom Ian Burgess300000018.015.00

Team Ranking

 

Team Ranking Aintree Circuit

TeamGP  1st  2nd  3rd  Pod  Pole  FL  Avg GridAvg PosPoints
1United Kingdom Vanwall32002117.110.39
2Italy Ferrari41225108.26.932
3Germany Mercedes11113113.02.522
4United Kingdom Cooper-Climax510231114.711.725.5
5United Kingdom Team Lotus310011115.016.711
6United Kingdom BRM40101028.911.712.5
7United Kingdom Lola10101006.510.06
8Germany Porsche200000010.511.72
9Italy Maserati300000012.514.22
10United Kingdom Connaught100000016.017.80
11Italy Scuderia Sant Ambroeus100000019.023.00
12United Kingdom JBW100000014.022.00
13France Gordini100000017.315.30
14United Kingdom Aston Martin10000004.010.00
15United Kingdom Ferguson100000020.019.00
16United Kingdom Gilby200000013.020.00
17United Kingdom Emeryson20000006.322.00

 

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