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Mosley adamant on refusing guarantee for Silverstone
Silverstone, July 12: Motorsport boss Max Mosley has refused to guarantee Silverstone`s status as a Formula One venue beyond this year.
Silverstone, July 12: Motorsport boss Max Mosley has refused to guarantee Silverstone's status as a Formula One venue beyond this year.
The circuit has been the subject of harsh criticism over its facilities and traffic control, bringing into doubt the future of the British Grand Prix. And despite praising improvements to the roads around Silverstone, Mosley insists there is still much to be done and will not give his backing to the race in 2004 and beyond.
"It's too early to say," Mosley, president of governing body the FIA, told Radio Five Live Formula One. "All I can say is the problem is solvable. What I can't say is whether it will be solved." Mosley described as "completely untrue" claims that Silverstone has enjoyed unfair leniency because he and F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone are British. And he made it perfectly clear how low the British circuit stood in the world pecking order.
"Silverstone was fairly well down the list of circuits worldwide and probably at the bottom of the list in Europe," said Mosley. "That is absolutely wrong for the leading motorsport country in the world.
"As the people who rent the circuit are paying enough money to allow the investment to do the work, it should be done.
"The government, and to some extent Silverstone, have solved the problem of the roads.
"Now they've got to sort the circuit out and then we'll have a facility of which we can be proud."
Bureau Report
The circuit has been the subject of harsh criticism over its facilities and traffic control, bringing into doubt the future of the British Grand Prix. And despite praising improvements to the roads around Silverstone, Mosley insists there is still much to be done and will not give his backing to the race in 2004 and beyond.
"It's too early to say," Mosley, president of governing body the FIA, told Radio Five Live Formula One. "All I can say is the problem is solvable. What I can't say is whether it will be solved." Mosley described as "completely untrue" claims that Silverstone has enjoyed unfair leniency because he and F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone are British. And he made it perfectly clear how low the British circuit stood in the world pecking order.
"Silverstone was fairly well down the list of circuits worldwide and probably at the bottom of the list in Europe," said Mosley. "That is absolutely wrong for the leading motorsport country in the world.
"As the people who rent the circuit are paying enough money to allow the investment to do the work, it should be done.
"The government, and to some extent Silverstone, have solved the problem of the roads.
"Now they've got to sort the circuit out and then we'll have a facility of which we can be proud."
Bureau Report