In partnership with Northampton College, committed to offering development opportunities, Silverstone has been conducting a unique culinary challenge for young students following hospitality and catering courses.

Hosting the initial, 14 candidate stage of its exciting competition in its circuit-side clubhouse on Friday 25th June, four finalists were selected to move through to the final stage wherein they prepared and served an important lunch to key corporate attendees at one of the circuit’s Grand Prix Challenge days on Monday 28th June.

Although the original plan was to select two overall winners of the final leg, standards were apparently such that deciding between four of the candidates for their food and table presentation, creativity, teamwork ability and level of service was an impossible task, hence the opportunity’s expansion.

Now set to participate in VIP hospitality at the 2010 Formula One Santander British Grand Prix, widely held to be one of the UK’s largest sports industry events, the four budding young chefs – Daniel Whitehouse, Ben Cook-Harrison, Hannah Archer and Toby Wafer – will be grouped into pairs in this order, with the first duo working ‘front of house’ and the other duo supporting the racing establishment’s professional culinary experts.

Richard Phillips of Silverstone Circuits Limited commented on the firm’s commitment to learning, “Education is a fundamental part of what we do for the community, not just from a motor sport point of view, but also from the technology side which is a spin-off from the Formula one British Grand Prix.”

Posted by Hayley on the 20th July 2010