Britain has been wanting for a proper motorsport museum ever since the Donington Grand Prix Collection faded and fell into disrepair over the course of a few decades, to the point that it eventually shut for good in late 2018.
Two years later, Silverstone, ‘the home of British motor racing’, fulfilled its age-old promise of a museum and it was opened by Lewis Hamilton and Prince Harry – only for the world to shut down temporarily and Silverstone to claim more than £1million in grants to ensure the museum survived the pandemic.
Anyone who has visited since will agree that it was money well spent.
It’s now a little over a decade since planning was approved but, such is the speed of progress with these things, the Silverstone Interactive Museum feels very new.
Situated inside the main entrance by the old Bridge Corner, it is an unremarkable building in the way these innovation and technology parks generally are, yet its back garden is unlike any other.