Officials announced on the British circuit Sylvesrton Monday that the track will continue to host the British Grand Prix Formula One under a new agreement with officials of the International Automobile Federation.
The source added that the agreement was ratified by Bernie Ecclestone, owner of the commercial rights to Formula One, to sustain the establishment of British Grand Prix at Silverstone in the next 17 years.
The International Federation announced the beginning of July last that the British Grand Prix will move from Silverstone to Donington from 2010 after signing a contract for a period of 10 years.
His contract expired at Silverstone, one of the oldest sports in the first category (founded in 1950 and hosted the 41 races since then), in 2009, talks were underway in order to be extended amid sharp criticism from Ecclestone, who was promoted to race in the streets of London rather than Silverstone, but he only transfer of the race to Donington, which lies 190 kilometers north of London, near Nottingham.
The Silverstone race was threatened with exclusion from the calendar because of poor attendance is essential, but the race last year brought back the bosses of the race a bit of reassurance after the number of the public who flocked during the three days of the race, who won his world champion Kimi Raikkonen in front of a bilateral McLaren-Mercedes Fernando Alonso (Renault this season) and local hero Lewis Hamilton, to 207 thousand spectators attended the free trials so that on Friday, 42 thousand spectators, a record, as is the case for test qualifying on Saturday, arrived to attend the 80 thousand spectators.
This number increased during the race to reach 85 thousand spectators, the track led to the director, Richard Phillips, to express the overwhelming joy of this success, in the face of Ecclestone appeal to those responsible for the track to take advantage of the spectacular success of the race to do all the steps that will facilitate the process of extending contract circuit beyond the year 2009.
Source: agencies
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