Accelerating through the start finish line, dab on the brakes for the gentle left into the sweeping long right hairpin Estoril, accelerating right up the straight until the tight right hairpin Adelaide, g-forces jolting your neck forward. Accelerating out of the hairpin onto another straight, with the quick left right complex Nurburgring and tight hairpin [...]

Bernie Ecclestone has given Silverstone a final ultimatum to sign the contract for the 2010 British Grand Prix. The outline of the ultimatum is that if by the time the FIA World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) next meets in Paris on 11 December to ratify the 2010 calendar, Silverstone don’t have the contract signed, Ecclestone [...]

Red Bull‘s Mark Webber has said that holding the British Grand Prix at Silverstone next year is a total no-brainer. Bernie Ecclestone has given Silverstone a 2 day deadline for the circuit to sign a deal to bring the British Grand Prix there in 2010 following the failure of Donington Park to raise the funds [...]

Bernie Ecclestone has said Silverstone has two days to sign a contract to hold the British Grand Prix in 2010, meaning negotiations are now over. It was due to be held at Donington but the circuit could not raise the funds needed. Silverstone had previously wanted the ‘special rates’ given to traditional circuits, like Spa, [...]

Bernie Ecclestone has confirmed that Donington will not hold the British Grand Prix 2010. He said: “There’s no Donington. They’ve missed the deadline which we kept extending for them. It’s unfortunate for them. It was the credit crunch that caused them to be in trouble – because their intentions were good, that’s for sure.” On [...]

Donington Ventures Leisure Ltd had until 1200 GMT on Monday to show it had the finances required to redevelop the circuit. Donington launched a bond issue in an attempt to raise £135m, but that proved unsuccessful. Will there still be a British Grand Prix at Silverstone? The question that is now on everyone’s lips is [...]