{"id":835295,"date":"2021-11-26T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/?p=835295"},"modified":"2021-11-26T12:07:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T12:07:45","slug":"british-gp-winning-mercedes-returns-to-open-silverstones-christmas-extravaganza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/articles\/lifestyle\/british-gp-winning-mercedes-returns-to-open-silverstones-christmas-extravaganza\/","title":{"rendered":"British GP-winning Mercedes returns to open Silverstone’s Christmas extravaganza"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The last time that the Mercedes W10 ran in front of a crowd at Silverstone, it was carrying Lewis Hamilton<\/a> to victory in the 2019 British Grand Prix<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last night the team’s development driver, Anthony Davidson, brought the championship-winning car back to the circuit to open its winter season, where the fastest lap times are set in the pitlane and Santa has set up home at Turn 1.<\/p>\n

Silverstone’s Lap of Lights has returned for a second year, transforming much of the track into a multicoloured light display for visitors to arrive and drive through – with speeds regulated by safety cars.<\/p>\n

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Ice rink runs through the garages, out into the pitlane and back again<\/p>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n

This year also brings an ice rink that sees skaters glide in a circuit through the garages and out into the pitlane, as well as a ski-style lodge with food, curling and a bar that offers the opportunity to try axe throwing before \u2014 or after \u2014 your drinks.<\/p>\n

Devised during Covid lockdown, the event helps to keep visitors and revenue flowing in during the off-season, and other circuits are looking at similar concepts, with Brands Hatch, Donington Park and Snetterton among the circuits that offer controlled laps in your family car.<\/p>\n

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Hamilton and Bottas battled for the lead with the Mercedes W10 at Turn 1 in 2019; Davidson got a wave from Santa<\/p>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n

At Silverstone, Davidson’s underlit Mercedes was the first to pass through the continent-themed displays around Silverstone, which feature a mini Eiffel Tower, cityscape snow globes, pyramids and lanterns between tunnels formed of laser light and smoke.<\/p>\n

Tickets are on sale now for the experience, which runs until January 3.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":771,"featured_media":835298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[118749],"tags":[37056],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/771"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835295"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835307,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835295\/revisions\/835307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}