As the 2018/19 FIA WEC gets back into action here’s a look back at World Championship sportscar racing at a (very different) Silverstone some 35 years ago – with thanks as always to the splendid John Brooks.

The race was won by the #2 Rothmans Porsche 956 of Derek Bell and the late, great Stefan Bellof – What dramas await this weekend for their present-day counterparts?