{"id":284,"date":"2009-02-12T21:26:44","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T21:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/?p=284"},"modified":"2009-02-12T21:30:18","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T21:30:18","slug":"new-donington-f1-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/02\/12\/new-donington-f1-circuit\/","title":{"rendered":"New Donington F1 Circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year good ol\u2019 Bernie<\/a> announced that the British Grand Prix<\/a> would be moving from its home at Silverstone<\/a> to Donington<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Donington is a great circuit, and hosted one of the most exciting first laps I\u2019ve ever seen back in 1993 (check it out below).\u00a0 To handle a modern GP however it was always going to need a heap of development.<\/p>\n

Over on the BBC News<\/a> site today they\u2019ve got a video<\/a> from a simulation of the new track layout.\u00a0 It\u2019s looking pretty good so far, and from what I hear work is already starting on the changes.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s that first lap I mentioned\u2026<\/p>\n

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Ayrton Senna’s first lap of Doningtion at the 1993 European GP<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Donington is a great circuit, and with Senna hosted one of the most exciting first laps I\u2019ve ever seen back in 1993. To handle a modern GP however it was always going to need a heap of development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[525,227,68,228,226],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-home","tag-cars","tag-donington","tag-f1","tag-senna","tag-silverstone","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}