There's a difference between bumps and vibration. The current surface at Silverstone is extremely bumpy. Does not suit F1 and hardly suits any other categories either. MotoGP complained a little about the bumps, but it was the lack of drainage that resulted in the MotoGP being cancelled. It still boils down to the new surface not being adequate for it's purpose.
Silverstone holds many different category's of racing, but it's biggest, most popular event is the F1 round each year. So any resurfacing being done surely would have F1 as the primary event to build the track to?? Every other category would come second. And in a F1 car, the current surface just has too much vibration. A couple of F1 drivers said during the F1 round there that it could even be unsafe as the excessive vibrations causes blurriness. Even Hamilton spoke out about the newly laid surface of one of his favourite tracks.
Hamilton: "The bad is that, one, I always think countries seem to waste money when they resurface the tracks. They wasted money which they could have gone to better use. And, two, the people they hired did the worst job ever.
"I mean, it's the bumpiest track I've ever experienced, it's bumpier than the Nordschleiffe, which is 100 years old. It's rattling your freakin' eyeballs from your brain -- you can't see where you're going.
"In the straights and some of the corners ... it's so insane how bumpy it is. It's so quick, it's like, duh-duh-duh-duh. ... Apart from that it's fantastic, but jeez, they need to hire someone better, because I don't know how you could make such a bad job in layering the track."
Bottas has said that he ended up with a headache after every session at Silverstone this year. Vettel said something about making an appointment to see his dentist.
Surely they have to resurface it again before the next F1 round in 2019?? Have heard that some sections of the track has lost the top layer of asphalt already, and what's left are 'bold' spots of smooth tarmac that has zero grip!
Maybe Mr Pringle could use some of
THIS to resurface the track?