Silverstone Grand Prix Preview
- Gray Wallace
- Jul 3
- 4 min read
Updated: Jul 17
The Great British Grand Prix marks the halfway point of the 2025 Formula 1 season. This weekend at Silverstone, fans will be met with a plethora of racing from F1, F2, F3, and a non-scored round of British F4. This will be the first time in history we’ve seen these series competing at the same event.
Coming into this weekend, Silverstone has seen 59 F1 races since its inaugural race in 1950, and was also the first-ever F1 race. This stands as the longest-running circuit in the F1 championship and, debatably, the most exciting.
The circuit length stands at 5.891 km (3.66 miles), with 52 laps on Grand Prix Sunday for F1. The lap record of 1.27.369 was set by its very own Lewis Hamilton in 2019.
Silverstone is not only a palace for extraordinary racing, but it also is home to the Aston Martin HQ, which sits quite literally right across the street from the Silverstone museum entrance.
As of now, the McLaren drivers are 1-2 in the drivers championship. Oscar Piastri holds 216 points after 11 races, with his teammate Lando Norris just 15 points behind. The gap grew significantly after Norris DNFed in the Canadian GP in mid-June, whilst Piastri finished just off the podium in fourth place.
Mercedes’ George Russell topped Max Verstappen and Kimi Antonelli that weekend, with Antonelli becoming the third youngest podium finisher after Lance Stroll and Verstappen. The team currently sits third in the constructors championship, just a single point behind rival Ferrari, promising an exciting race this weekend between the teams.
Eyes will be on all four and a half British F1 drivers throughout the weekend, with mass hopes that they will be able to – literally – bring home points. Although he doesn’t race under the Union Jack, Alex Albon was born in London and grew up in Suffolk, so Silverstone is the closest thing he will get to a home race as of now. Albon has been in discussion with the Prime Minister of Thailand to make an effort to see a race in Bangkok by 2028.
As for F2, Richard Verschoor rides high on a win from last weekend in Austria, leading the championship with 114 points — 24 ahead of Irishman Alex Dunne, who was disqualified after a third-place finish due to his front plank being too worn upon post-race inspection by the FIA.
Campos driver Arvid Lindblad will be taking over Yuki Tsunoda’s RB21 for Friday during free practice one. Lindblad received an exemption regarding his super licence in June, which is usually only given to racing drivers at a minimum age of 18. The 17-year-old has shown promising ability during his racing career, winning 6 out of 15 races in the 2025 Formula Regional Oceania Championship, as well as placing fourth in his first year of F3 in 2024.
Silverstone proves to be a strong track for Lindblad, as he won both the sprint and feature races last year whilst still competing in F3, being the first driver to do so at any track in the history of the championship.
Ex-Hitech driver Paul Aron will also be taking part in FP1 this weekend with the Sauber of Nico Hülkenberg. The Estonian isn’t racing competitively this year after finishing third in the 2024 F2 Championship; instead, he is partaking in sim tests with Alpine. Alpine and Sauber have come to an agreement in which Aron will participate in two FP1 sessions with Sauber this year: the first at Silverstone and the second at the Hungaroring. He will still complete the remaining three of his rookie practice sessions with Alpine at a later date.
British drivers John Bennett and Cian Shields will be aiming to get their first points of the season at their home race, neither of them having achieved a top 10 finish so far. Luke Browning, however, sits fifth in the championship with 83 points, his best result being third in Barcelona.
Brazilian Rafael Câmara continues to lead the F3 drivers championship with 117 points, a 24 point advantage over Tim Tramnitz, who has four points over fellow Red Bull junior Nikola Tsolov.
Callum Voisin is ninth in the drivers championship at the moment, with Briton James Hedley yet to snatch any points from the season so far.
As stated earlier, British F4 will be running a non-scored race weekend alongside the other series. This will be especially exciting for Thomas Bearman, who will be given the chance to race at the same event as his older brother Ollie.
Weather: Chances of rain over the weekend, primarily on Saturday and Sunday.
Schedule (all times are local in BST)
Friday 4 July
8:45 – 9:30: F3 Practice
10:00 – 10:45: F2 Practice
12:30 – 13:30: F1 Practice 1
14:00 – 14:30: F3 Qualifying
14:55 – 15:25: F2 Qualifying
16:00 – 17:00: F1 Practice 2
17:45 – 18:30: British F4 Practice
Saturday 5 July
8:10 – 8:35: British F4 Qualifying
9:15 – 10:00: F3 Sprint Race
11:30 – 12:30: F1 Practice 3
13:15 – 14:05: F2 Sprint Race
15:00 – 16:00: F1 Qualifying
17:00 – 17:30: British F4 Race 1
Sunday 6 July
8:20 – 8:50: British F4 Race 2
9:30 – 10:20: F3 Race
11:05 – 12:10: F2 Race
15:00: F1 Race
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