After some positive news from Damon Hill yesterday with regards to a British Grand Prix in Silverstone next year, today he is being much more conservative about the prospects. As you may know, the future of the British Grand Prix was put into doubt yesterday after Donington failed to come through with the relevant funding.
Hill has been speaking with BBC Radio 5 Live about the issue,
“F1 can go anywhere in the world and get a huge amount of money. That’s what he’s wrestling with.”
He continued,
“There’s a whole load of reasons why it should happen here, but ultimately you are competing against countries which are able to inject public money into their infrastructure and into the contract of the Grand Prix. And that seems to be the stumbling block here.”
This somewhat disagrees with Hill’s comments yesterday where he was fairly positive a deal with Silverstone would be made. Certainly the lack of information coming out from Donington, BDRC, Bernie Ecclestone – or anyone else for that matter on the future of the British Grand Prix is worrying.
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