No place like home

A 2013 book on Silverstone has been given a second-edition update. As Damien Smith finds out, a lot can happen in 12 years

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We take it for granted, still curse the traffic on British Grand Prix weekends and brace ourselves for that chill wind that whips across the old airfield site nearly every time we visit. And yet you've got to love Silverstone. After all, it's home.

Our comforting familiarity with the place, despite all the developments in recent years, is reflected in this second edition of Chas Parker's paean to Britain's premier race circuit. It was first published 12 years ago, so an update is well timed in this 75th anniversary year of the F1 drivers' world championship which, of course, started here. As Parker writes in his introduction, back in 2013 Alain Prost had won more grands prix at Silverstone than anyone else, with five. In comparison, Lewis Hamilton had only a single home win to his name, from 2008. Now he has a record-smashing nine.