Silverstone in doubt: "F1 doesn't want to start something they can't finish"

Just like in Austria, Great Britain is also thinking about organizing a Grand Prix without an audience this summer. Now that the organisation there has announced that it is open for that option, a double race on Silverstone seems to be in the making, but circuit director Stuart Pringle doesn't want to celibrate too soon.

According to Pringle, there are all kinds of things playing in the background that could throw a spanner in the works. To Motorsport.com he explains that all kinds of external factors have to be taken into account. In the first place with the question whether a Formula 1 season can be completed at all.

If it is possible to race in Silverstone, but nowhere else, it makes little sense to organize a Grand Prix. Also locally there are some obstacles. Although there won't be an audience, there will still be a large group of people travelling to the circuit, something the local authorities will have to give their permission for. Silverstone will need a large part of their staff to make the preparations.

Pringle assumes for all his plans that Formula 1 will publish a definitive calendar before the actual preparations for the event have to start at Silverstone. Formula 1 will need to have the calendar ready for their own preparations at a relatively early stage.