Most of the countries that have held grands prix since the dawn of the Formula 1 World Championship have some kind of claim to fame. Great Britain, for instance, held the very first, at Silverstone on 13th May, 1950. Monaco was then and remains today both the slowest, and most glamorous. Belgium’s Spa circuit is the oldest still in use today having first been used in 1921, while Italy’s Monza (which has hosted every Italian Grand Prix since the F1 championship began bar one (1980)) was then and remains today the fastest race on the F1 calendar, if you exclude the Indy 500 which was included for a few years in the ‘50s for reasons that need not trouble us here.
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