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Pringle: "Silverstone is the rock in the surf for this championship''
- GPblog.com
Together with the Red Bull Ring, Silverstone is currently the best candidate to hold the first races. It is not crazy according to the director of the circuit, who sees especially street racing in trouble.
Problem of street races
Eight races have already been postponed from the official calendar of 2020, but there is still hope. The next races on the calendar are those of Austria and England and there the sounds are positive. Austria would have already tested the staff on the coronavirus and Silverstone would also like to organize one or more races.
''When you see which races are currently falling over, those are the races that are held in the centre of a city. That's great if all goes well, of course, but on a permanent circuit like Silverstone's you can always race and that gives certainty,'' Stuart Pringle says opposite The Race.
Proud of Silverstone
''I say that because I know this place. It's our circuit. We have control over the entire site and we don't have to shut down noise restrictions for a certain period of time. You saw that with the street race in London. As soon as we signed, their interest disappeared. As far as I'm concerned, that says it all.''
Pringle is proud of 'his Silverstone'. "Silverstone is the rock in the surf for this championship. Formula 1 recognizes that too. Monaco, Spa, Monza and Silverstone are just the cornerstones of this sport and can't really disappear'', Pringle concludes his self-promotion.