Liverpool hosted the British Grand Prix five times over the years on the city's lost Formula 1 track.
In 1954 the UK's first and only purpose-built three-mile Grand Prix motor racing circuit was constructed around the landmark Aintree Racecourse. The circuit only took four months to construct after more than a year of issues with licences, roads, footpaths and parish councils.
The course cost around £100k to complete and was intended to be run anti-clockwise, just like the Grand National horse races. The first race in 1995 did run anti-clockwise, but experience showed the circuit would be safer run conventionally and it's been run that way ever since.
