The company that runs Silverstone, the Northamptonshire motor racing circuit and home of the British Grand Prix, owned by the British Racing Drivers' Club.
Silverstone Circuits Limited runs Silverstone, the racing circuit on the Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire border that hosts the Formula 1 British Grand Prix. The company's own recruitment page calls it a world-famous racing circuit, a premier business venue and a family leisure destination. It says there are around 40 on-track events a year, and that a record 401,000 people came in 2022. Wikipedia also lists MotoGP, the European Le Mans Series, the British Touring Car Championship, British GT and the Silverstone Classic. The Grand Prix layout is 5.891 km long with 18 turns.
The story starts with a wartime airfield. The site was an RAF bomber station from 1943 to 1946, and an informal race there in 1947 became known as the Mutton Grand Prix. The circuit opened in 1948 with the first post-war British Grand Prix, and in 1950 it staged the first race in the new Formula 1 World Championship. The British Racing Drivers' Club (BRDC) took over the lease in the early 1950s and owns the circuit today. The company says all profits are reinvested in its people, the circuit and its partnerships. It calls Silverstone the heart and soul of British motorsport. We read no formal values statement, because the values page it links to was not available to us.
Silverstone is in the countryside near the villages of Silverstone and Whittlebury, reached from the A43, with Milton Keynes as the nearest city. A 2013 report described a 760-acre estate with plans for hotels and a technology park, so the site is bigger than the track alone. In May 2011 the circuit opened the Silverstone Wing, a pit, paddock and conference building with 41 garages, race control, a media centre, three large halls and a 100-seat auditorium. It is used for conferences, launches and exhibitions as well as racing.
On people and culture, the company describes its workforce as forward-thinking and its team as driven and winning, and says it wants to help employees advance their careers. It also says it is growing, with a strong focus on sustainability and diversification. These are the company's own words. At the opening of the Wing in 2011, the then managing director, Richard Phillips, praised the superb and exceptional Silverstone team, and a Heritage Lottery Fund official said in 2013 that the circuit's status as a not-for-profit drivers' club made it unique. That is an older view, but it gives a sense of an organisation that sees itself as a club as well as a business.
A site that runs dozens of events a year, plus conferences and visitor attractions, needs many kinds of people. Typical areas are event and race-weekend operations, safety and marshalling, ticketing and customer service, hospitality and catering, marketing and partnerships, grounds and facilities, engineering and conference sales. The company page does not list departments or headcount, so check the circuit's own site to see which roles exist now. If you like cars, big crowds and the feeling of a race weekend coming together, this is a place where many different skills end up serving the same event.
Website: www.silverstone.co.uk
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