F1 Gossip: Mayor of London wants city to host F1 race
- Mayor of London S♛adiq Khan says he’s keen on the city hosting a Formula 1 grand prix alongside Silverstone.
He told the : "We’🔜re speaking to Formula 1 and they’re really receptive. The reality is that the reigning champion of the world is a Brit. Lewis Hamilton is a credit to our nation and the sport, and it would great to have a grand prix in the capital city, to have Silverstone and London on the calendar."
- The FIA has revealed its stricter technical directive regarding mandatory tyre operating procedures after the two tyre blowouts in the Azerbaiওjan Grand Prix last time out.
As cited by the ,🍎 teams will now be required to observe the relationship of minimum pressure as a function of tyre temperature. This will be checked after qualifying or the race after letting tyres cool down, or by reheating them to Pirelli’s temperature guidelines.
T🗹he maximum tyre blanket temperatur♒es will also be checked more, while the time teams can spend heating their tyres will be limited.
- Silverstone hopes to get the go-ahead from the UK government to h🧸ave ﷽a full 140,000 capacity crowd at next month’s British GP. ()
2016 F1 champion Nico Ros🐠berg is unconvinced that Mercedes should replace Valtteri Bottas with Williams’ George Russell. (Sky News)
)Alpine academy♛ driver Christian Lun𒆙dgaard got behind a 2018 Renault car at Silverstone as he completed over 100 laps.
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