The British Grand Prix HELP

[pitcrew]

May i have a minute of your time,
My partner is doing her dissertation and needs opinions and answers for her question, when answering could you please note your involvment in motorsport i.e team: period worked for, possition in team or just spectatior etc (the effect on you if the gp was lost) if you dont mind, thank you

the question is:

Is the British Grand Prix viable in todays modern motorsports arena?

[Kicking-back]

It has a contract for the next five years - therefore the answer is one word.

Yes.


You can argue the whys the wherefores and the whatevers but at the end of the day that's how it is

[Super Tourer]

Heritage - One of F1's often forgotten selling points in it's haste to grab the future, is where it has come from.

'We' need to maintain races on the calendar that were won in the past by Fangio, Moss, Hunt, Clarke, Graham Hill,Mansell, Senna, etc and all the other great names from the past. I have no problem with new countries appearing on the calendar, but we need a mix between tracks that can look back 50 years for winners, and those who have 5 years or less in the record books.

Viability is a different issue and that's about getting the F1 finances in order so that promoting a race, whether it be Britain, France or Melbourne is not a loss making exercise. Silverstone is by no means unique in this respect, where it is in a minority is that the government will not write off the cost or set it against tourism or whatever to produce a net financial gain.

Silverstone has produced some great races, it may not have a drivers lounge or IT room attached to each pit garage, but none of those things make the cars any faster or the races any better.

Finally, the UK and motorsport are so heavily still pretty much the home of F1, that to not have a race in the F1 teams back yard is nonsensical.

[Andrew Gunnell]

I am going a Motorsport engineering course at the moment, so I would say YES. But if there was no GP at Silverstone hotels and guest houses around the south midlands would loses millions of pounds. Also in the UK 60% of the teams are based, and that is not including the suppliers .

[Adam43]

In many ways. No, it isn't. Purely from a supply and demand point of view. There are many places that want a GP (more than there are slots on the calendar) and there are many that are willing to pay more for one.

In many other ways. Yes. Britain is a key country to F1, so many people involved are British - which is why it continues to get on the calendar. It has something extra it can sell to get on there.