Silverstone bosses deal blow to Lewis Hamilton with threat

Silverstone managing director Circuit Stuart Pringle has claimed they will not pay over the odds to keep the British Grand Prix on the Formula One calendar. It means 33-year-old Lewis Hamilton may only get one more shot at winning his home Grand Prix again. “We got ourselves into a pickle because we had a business that was solely financed by the Grand Prix,” Pringle said while speaking at the BRDC Awards. “We had to diversify, and we’re doing that. We’re going to build a hotel, we’ve got Silverstone Experience opening, and we have some additional short-stay luxury accommodation. Aston Martin are now tenants on-site. “Things are very much heading in the right direction, and it gives us the confidence to say: ‘Lord knows we want to keep the Grand Prix, but not at any price’. We’re going to have a broader, more diverse business that can survive without it. But we’d much rather have one with it.”

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