Classic British Grand Prix images through the years

Formula 1 is celebrating its 75th anniversary this season and this weekend's British Grand Prix is another landmark for the sport.

Silverstone hosted the first F1 World Championship grand prix in May 1950 and will stage the British round for the 59th time on Sunday, 6 July.

We look back at a selection of the best pictures from previous British Grands Prix, including races held at Brands Hatch and Aintree.

Alfa Romeo's Giuseppe Farina leads team-mate Luigi Fagioli during the first Formula 1 World Championship grand prix at Silverstone. Italian Farina won the race and went on to become the first drivers' champion

Jose Froilan Gonzalez, of Argentina, slides through Abbey Curve on his way to victory in the 1951 British Grand Prix. It was Ferrari's first race win in the F1 World Championship

British motor racing hero Stirling Moss with his arm around Juan Manuel Fangio, his Mercedes team-mate and great friend. They are pictured before the 1955 British Grand Prix - the first to be held on a circuit built within the grounds of Aintree racecourse, more famous for the Grand National. Moss crossed the line just ahead of Fangio to win his first F1 race. Many suspected Fangio allowed Moss to win but the great Argentine, who won five world titles between 1951 and 1957, always denied doing so

Tony Brooks' BRM on fire after crashing on lap 40 in 1956 at Silverstone. Brooks was thrown clear of the car and fortunately avoided serious injury

Mirabel Topham, the owner of Aintree racecourse, presents Stirling Moss with the winner's laurel wreath after his victory, shared with fellow Briton Tony Brooks, in a Vanwall in 1957. It was the first F1 win for a British car

Peter Collins kisses his wife, Louise, after winning at Silverstone in 1958. Handing him a drink is Ferrari team-mate Mike Hawthorn, who would become Britain's first world champion that year. Collins was killed in a crash at the German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring just two weeks later

Alan Stacey and Jo Bonnier during the 1959 race at Aintree. In the background is the Melling Road, which the horses cross during the Grand National

Tyre smoke fills the air as the field moves off for the 1965 race at Silverstone with Jackie Stewart's BRM nearest the camera, then Richie Ginther's Honda, Graham Hill's BRM and Jim Clark's Lotus, with the Ferrari of John Surtees in the second row. Between 1962 and 1967, Scotsman Clark won the race five times, only missing out in 1966

An aerial view of Brands Hatch from 1970. The Kent circuit alternated hosting the British Grand Prix with Silverstone between 1964 and 1986

A first-lap pile-up coming out of Silverstone's Woodcote corner caused 11 cars to retire in 1973

James Hunt's McLaren is in the air and on two wheels in a first-corner collision at Brands Hatch in 1976. The race was red-flagged and Hunt was initially told he could not take the restart because he had not completed the first lap in his damaged car. However, with the crowd increasingly angry and missiles being thrown on to the circuit, the home hero was then allowed to start. Hunt won the race but was subsequently disqualified two months later

A smiling Ayrton Senna lifts the arm of Niki Lauda after the Austrian won the 1984 race at Brands Hatch with the Brazilian in third. Senna, driving for Toleman, was in his first season of F1 while Lauda won his third world title that year, beating McLaren team-mate Alain Prost by half a point

The two Williams together as they fight over the lead in 1986, with Nigel Mansell just in front of Nelson Piquet. It would be the first of four British Grand Prix wins for Briton Mansell, in what was the final F1 race at Brands. Since then, Silverstone has been the permanent home of the grand prix

Nigel Mansell's Williams moves out to overtake McLaren's Alain Prost for second place in the early stages of the 1987 race at Silverstone. Nelson Piquet leads but, after a pit stop to change tyres, Mansell would hunt him down and overtake the Brazilian with three laps to go for a thrilling victory

Ayrton Senna is given a lift back to the pits by race winner Nigel Mansell after he broke down on the final lap of the 1991 race at Silverstone

With Jackie Stewart watching on, Nigel Mansell, sitting on two wheels rather than four, speaks to a 10-year-old Prince William at Silverstone in 1992, the year he won nine of 16 races - including Silverstone - on the way to the drivers' title

Members of the crowd invade the track to acclaim Mansell's dominant 1992 victory

The cars move away at the start in 1994 with Williams' Damon Hill ahead of Benetton's Michael Schumacher as the engine on Martin Brundle's McLaren-Peugeot explodes in spectacular style

A tense look on the faces of Damon Hill and Michael Schumacher after they collided while contesting the lead in 1995. Both drivers were eliminated with Schumacher's Benetton team-mate Johnny Herbert going on to win the race

Religious activist and former priest Neil Horan runs on to the track along the Hangar Straight during the 2003 grand prix. The safety car was deployed and Horan was later jailed for aggravated trespass

Lewis Hamilton leads McLaren team-mate Heikki Kovalainen on the way to an utterly dominant victory in treacherous and changeable conditions in 2008. It was the first of nine wins at Silverstone for the Briton - a record for a driver at a single circuit in F1

Hamilton inspects his punctured front left tyre after he finished the 2020 grand prix on three wheels. The puncture happened on the final lap but he was able to get round for the win

The Alfa Romeo of Zhou Guanyu upside down at the first corner in 2022. Zhou's car vaulted the barriers, but he was freed from the car by paramedics and was uninjured

Actor Brad Pitt - playing Sonny Hayes - shoots a scene for the new F1 movie at Silverstone during the 2023 event. Then Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz joins him for extra authenticity

Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton holds aloft the winner's trophy to the fans below after winning in 2024, his first grand prix victory since the 2021 season