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1948 British Grand Prix information


1948 RAC International Grand Prix
Race details
Date 2 October 1948
Official name RAC International Grand Prix
Location RAF Silverstone, Northamptonshire
Course Converted aerodrome
Course length 5.907 km (3.670 miles)
Distance 65 laps, 383.91 km (238.55 miles)
Weather Dry, light cloud.
Pole position
Driver
  • Monaco Louis Chiron
Talbot-Lago
Time 2:56.0
Fastest lap
Driver Italy Luigi Villoresi Maserati
Time 2:52.0
Podium
First
  • Italy Luigi Villoresi
Maserati
Second
  • Italy Alberto Ascari
Maserati
Third
  • United Kingdom Bob Gerard
ERA

The Royal Automobile Club International Grand Prix was a motor race held on 2 October 1948, at Silverstone Airfield, Northamptonshire, UK. It is commonly cited as the first British Grand Prix of the modern era.[1]

Held two years before the inauguration of the FIA World Championship of Drivers, the 65-lap race was run under the new Formula One regulations[2] which effectively replaced the pre-war Grand Prix motor racing standards.[1] Winner was the Italian Luigi Villoresi, in a Maserati 4CLT/48. A 13-lap 500 cc race, preceding the Grand Prix, was won by Spike Rhiando in a Cooper. Stirling Moss failed to finish after mechanical problems.

The race meeting marked the opening of the Silverstone Circuit, although at the time the site was only on a one-year loan to the RAC from the Air Ministry, having been a bomber station during World War II.

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