Weatherday: Grand Prix

View at over 5,000 metres from the Abra del Acay, Argentina (2007).

Cloudy to start but by lunchtime will improve with sunny spells. Clear skies in the later afternoon. 

Temperatures up to 17deg in moderate breezes from the west easing to light. 

On this day in 1950, the first ever race of the Formula 1 World Drivers Championship was run at Silverstone in England. The winner was Giuseppe Farina of Italy, driving an Alfa Romeo.

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