{"id":29693,"date":"2021-12-14T11:25:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T14:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/?p=29693"},"modified":"2026-02-20T21:08:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:08:26","slug":"como-silverstone-virou-silvastone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/special-silverstone-como-silverstone-virou-silvastone\/","title":{"rendered":"How Silverstone became ‘Silvastone'"},"content":{"rendered":"

How Silverstone became ‘Silvastone’<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a celebrated stage of European and worldwide motorsports, Silverstone was the track in which Senna raced the most in Formula 3. He won six out of the eight races there, a fact that helped spread the nickname the local press had given to the traditional circuit: since Senna\u2019s days in Formula Ford, they had been calling it \u201cSilvastone\u201d, a reference to the driver\u2019s last name (he was known as \u201cda Silva\u201d at the time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides winning in Formula Ford, F3 and F1, Senna set the track\u2019s record several times. With three wins in Formula Ford and one in Formula One, in 1988, Senna had a total of 10 triumphs at the circuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking all of the Brazilian\u2019s official races into account, it was at the UK\u2019s sacred temple of motor sports that Ayrton Senna da Silva won the most in his career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take a look at three newspapers (in portuguese) that used the term \u201cSilvastone\u201d at the time of Ayrton Senna\u2019s achievements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An interesting fact: so the British could understand why Ayrton would be going by \u201cSenna\u201d, instead of \u201cda Silva\u201d, it was explained to them that \u201cSilva\u201d was like \u201cSmith\u201d in England, a very common surname that could be found in many families.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How Silverstone became ‘Silvastone’. Follow the legend’s journey to greatness. Click here to see more!<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-silverstone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}