Could the BRDC sell Silverstone?
britsonpole.com 5/18/2009 — Claims that the Silverstone race circuit could be put up for sale in order to ease financial pressures on its owners have been made by a newspaper this weekend. The Guardian says it has details of a confidential letter from British Racing Drivers’ Club chairman Robert Brooks to ...

Silverstone has go-ahead to seek investors
britsonpole.com 8/27/2009 — Silverstone’s management has been given the go-ahead to negotiate with potential investors in a move that could see the circuit regain the rights to stage the British Grand Prix. The Northamptonshire venue is owned by the British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) and its members have ...

F1: British Grand Prix Back To Silverstone For 2010 ???
paddocktalk.com 6/19/2009 — F1: British Grand Prix Back To Silverstone For 2010 ? Silverstone is still hoping Donington's plans for the 2010 British grand prix fail and Bernie Ecclestone agrees to keep the race at the historic track. Ecclestone, the F1 chief executive, has penned a 17-year-old deal with ...

'To lose Silverstone would be to destroy F1 heritage'
f1insight.blogspot.com 24 days ago — Leading team principals have come out in support of Silverstone as the financial stalemate between the Northants circuit's owners the British Racing Drivers' Club (BRDC) and F1 commercial rights-holder Bernie Ecclestone still shows no sign of resolution – with Ross Brawn arguing that to lose ...

Ecclestone: 2 days for Silverstone to sign
f1insight.blogspot.com 27 days ago — F1 commercial rights-holder Bernie Ecclestone has issued Silverstone with an ultimatum – sign a deal within the next 48 hours, or the British Grand Prix will be definitively pulled from the 2010 world championship schedule. Following the failure last week of Donington Ventures Leisure Ltd ...

F1: Our manifesto for the British Grand Prix
britsonpole.com 6/17/2009 — It’s the British Grand Prix. Brits on Pole’s biggest weekend of the year. A chance for Lewis and Jense to race in front of their home crowds – and, very likely, for the latter to take another decisive step towards securing a fairytale drivers’ title. So why ...

F1: Drivers and teams back Silverstone and British GP
britsonpole.com 6/17/2009 — Last year’s British Grand Prix was overshadowed by a cheap publicity stunt of Bernie Ecclestone’s. This year it is set to be overshadowed by a almighty spat between promotor, regulator and competitors that could consign top-flight open-wheel racing to the wilderness for the ...

Chairman of BRDC to sell Silverstone circuit, says report
f1insight.blogspot.com 5/17/2009 — In a confidential letter, the chairman of the British Racing Drivers' Club has reportedly proposed to sell the Silverstone circuit, the long-time host of the British Grand Prix which is set to present its final F1 round this year. The leaked proposal, made in writing by Robert Brooks, would ...

Opinion: Now Ecclestone threatens no British GP in 2010
britsonpole.com 5/13/2009 — It looks like the fears of everyone who believes this year’s British Grand Prix at Silverstone could be the last for a while are a step closer to being realised. Formula One promoter Bernie Ecclestone has raised the possibility in an interview with The Times that problems with ...

Opinion: Bernie’s British Grand Prix climbdown is a trap
britsonpole.com 6/21/2009 — F1 rights holder Bernie Ecclestone went on live television from the British Grand Prix paddock on Saturday and said the words that a nation’s motorsport fans desperately wanted to hear: there will be a race in 2010, and it could be at Silverstone. So what was the catch? As ...

Silverstone already in 2010 GP talks — F1 news - autosport.com 10/23/2009
Silverstone has already begun serious discussions with Bernie Ecclestone about a new British Grand Prix deal, AUTOSPORT has learned, but a contract is still far from guaranteed.

F1 doesn't need British GP - Ecclestone — F1-Live.com 10/24/2009
Bernie Ecclestone insists he is prepared to scrub Britain's name from the 2010 calendar if Silverstone does not want to pay the going rate for its Formula One race...  

Ecclestone warns Silverstone over deal — F1 news - autosport.com 10/24/2009
Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has warned that he is not prepared to offer Silverstone a cut-price deal for the British Grand Prix just to guarantee the race a future

Ecclestone slams Brawn amid Button talks — F1-Live.com 10/25/2009
Bernie Ecclestone has hit out at Brawn GP for not sewing up a deal yet with F1's new World Champion Jenson Button...  

Ecclestone hoping for new Silverstone deal — F1-Live.com 10/26/2009
Tuesday is the day on which Donington's Grand Prix contract could be formally terminated, according to Bernie Ecclestone...