There was traffic chaos around Silverstone early on Saturday morning as many fans ignored police advice to leave cars and travel by train, taxi oronfoot.
Currently around half a million people make the journey, either onfootoron the train, to the summit each year, and the new building might attract even more.
The quarry features in this novel in both senses of the word, as Mr Galgut's characters try on every page to escape their destiny on foot, in trucks or by train.