Silverstone organisers still hope to save
British Grand PrixCricket and
Champions League may also be affectedFor 70 years it has been a fixture in the sporting summer, with motor racing legends such as Stirling Moss, Ayrton Senna and
Lewis Hamilton all taking the chequered flag. But now the British
Grand Prix is under threat after sporting bodies failed to win an initial exemption from strict new quarantine rules for incoming travellers to the
UK.
Government sources have told the Guardian that they still hope that a solution might be found to allow two races to be staged at Silverstone on 26 July and 2 August – with suggestions that
Formula One personnel could yet be included in a revised list of exemptions in three weeks’ time.