Paris (AFP)
The plan to organize Formula 1 races in July on the Silverstone circuit (Great Britain) is threatened by British quarantine measures and will only materialize if exemptions are granted, a spokesman for Tuesday said. F1.
"Forty-fourteen days would make it impossible to organize a British Grand Prix this year," the spokesman said in a statement sent to AFP.
"We would travel to Great Britain on planes in which there would only be F1 staff and everyone would be tested which makes quarantine completely unnecessary. If top-level sports have to repeat TV events , exemptions will be necessary, "he added.
F1 hopes to start its season on July 5 with a Grand Prix in Austria behind closed doors and a second one the following Sunday on the same Spielberg circuit, also behind closed doors and with a limited number of people on the paddock.
Two tests were then planned on the Silverstone circuit and the director of this circuit, Stuart Pringle, had indicated on May 15 that he could host two Grands Prix behind closed doors this summer, provided that he obtained the green light from the British government. . But it currently imposes a quarantine on any traveler arriving from abroad.
If most of the F1 teams are based in Great Britain, this is not the case for some of them such as Ferrari, Alpha-Tauri (ex-Toro Rosso) and Alfa Romeo as well as the tire supplier Pirelli.
No Grand Prix of the F1 season, which should have started in Australia on March 15, has yet to be held due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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