<P> Victory in the 1999 British Grand Prix went to Coulthard at the wheel of a McLaren - Mercedes with an average speed of 124.256 mph from Irvine's Ferrari and the other Schumacher, Ralf . </P> <P> For Silverstone's first Grand Prix of the 21st Century, the FIA decreed that the race should be moved to April, and the event took place over Easter, with the GP itself run on Easter Sunday . In hindsight this was a poor decision by the FIA, who failed to take into account the unpredictable weather in Britain at this time of year . It rained almost continually for the best part of three weeks before the event and most of Good Friday; by Easter Saturday the car parks had virtually collapsed and were completely closed . Although most of the race day itself was fine, the damage was done and many thousands of spectators were unable to get to Silverstone to witness David Coulthard win his second straight victory in the event, from his McLaren teammate Mika Häkkinen, with Michael Schumacher third for Ferrari . </P> <P> On 14 May, the FIA GT Championship came to Northants, in slightly more clement conditions and victory went to Julian Bailey and Jamie Campbell - Walter driving a Lister Storm GT from no fewer than four Chrysler Viper GTS - Rs . </P> <P> The 2000 Silverstone 500 USA Challenge was the first American Le Mans Series race to be held outside of North America . It served as a precursor to the creation of the European Le Mans Series by gauging the willingness of European teams from the FIA Sportscar Championship and FIA GT Championship to participate in a series identical to the American Le Mans Series . This event also shared the weekend at Silverstone with an FIA GT round, with some GT teams running both events . The race was won by the Schnitzer Motorsport's BMW V12 LMP of Jörg Müller and JJ Lehto . </P>

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