Hill has no love for new Silverstone layout

Yesterday, Silverstone unveiled the new layout it will be using for the 2010 British GP.
It struck me as sort of a strange bit of timing, with the focus of the Formula 1 world on Jerez, on the first full dry day of testing for some of the teams [well, full unless you were Virgin Racing] [...]

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Silverstone deal: 17 years, new pit lane and paddock

As expected, the British GP is saved.
Details unveiled today by the British Racing Drivers’ Club include a 17-year commitment with Formula 1 and promises of revamped pit lane and paddock areas.
Plus, amazingly, the BRDC seems to have gotten F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone to lower his monetary demands.
The BBC is reporting that the original contract that [...]

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Reports: British GP to be saved

Multiple news reports say that the British GP will be saved, and we should get all the details in a few hours.
Silverstone officials have called a news conference for Monday. Damon Hill will be among those talking to the press.
Among the reports are this from the BBC, which obviously stands to gain from a British [...]

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British GP deal ‘very, very close’

You know what they say: Bernie always says something stupid or provocative before the dawn.
He may have done it again regarding the British GP.
After a weekend during which Bernie said there was a drop-dead deadline in early December, and then suggested that he was close to pulling the British GP off the 2010 calendar, Silverstone [...]

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Bernie ratchets up British GP rhetoric, sets ‘deadline’ for talks

Bernie Ecclestone as set Dec. 9 as the deadline for negotiations between him and the owners of Silverstone if there is to be a British GP in 2010.
As we reported last week, why should Bernie be working hard to ensure a race in the UK? It isn’t as though Britain has a team with the [...]

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