Detroit Grand Prix (IndyCar) Speedway. AAA also held one five-mile (8 km), non-championship race at Grosse Pointe in 1905. The race dates back to when it was a Formula One World Championship event held on the Detroit street circuit encompassing the Renaissance Center. The original circuit was with seventeen corners and proved to be even slower than Monaco. The rough, demanding course included a railroad track crossing and mimicked Monaco, with a tunnel on the main straight. While officially the "Detroit Grand Prix", it was referred to as the "United States Grand Prix East" because there were multiple Grand Prix races in the U.S.
2017 British Grand Prix 2017 British Grand Prix The 2017 British Grand Prix (formally known as the 2017 Formula 1 Rolex British Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race that took place on 16 July 2017 at the Silverstone Circuit in Silverstone, United Kingdom. This race was the seventy-second running of the British Grand Prix, the sixty-eighth time that the race has been run as a World Championship event, and the fifty-second time that the World Championship event has been held at the Silverstone Circuit. Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel entered the round with a twenty-point lead over Mercedes's Lewis Hamilton in the Drivers'