{"id":3444,"date":"2023-01-13T03:10:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T11:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/13\/silverstone-md-suggests-four-day-british-grand-prix-weekend\/"},"modified":"2023-01-13T03:10:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T11:10:45","slug":"silverstone-md-suggests-four-day-british-grand-prix-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/13\/silverstone-md-suggests-four-day-british-grand-prix-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Silverstone MD suggests four-day British Grand Prix weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"primary\">\n<p class=\"standfirst\">The Formula 1 British Grand Prix could become a four-day race weekend to offer motorsport fans more on-track action. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the main stage at motorsport event\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/f1\/news\/silverstone-pushing-to-expand-british-gp-to-four-day-weekend\/10419967\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Autosport International<\/a> in Birmingham yesterday (Thursday), the managing director of Silverstone (pictured), where the British GP is staged, said that Formula 1 needed to change the format of the weekend.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Stuart Pringle said: \u201cWe\u2019re looking to extend the weekend. I\u2019m working hard on Formula 1. I believe they need to change the format of the weekend. They say: \u2018Oh well it\u2019s the FIA, they\u2019ve got to do the systems test and stuff\u2019 \u2013 well, do them a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s do some stuff on Thursday. There are a lot of people who want to come and see things, and three days isn\u2019t really enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s make it that big, best part of a week\u2019s festival. People do turn up at Silverstone on a Tuesday and put the tent up, and that\u2019s it, they\u2019re in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A record crowd of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theticketingbusiness.com\/2022\/06\/30\/record-crowds-expected-for-british-grand-prix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">400,000 fans<\/a> attended last year\u2019s British GP over the three days and Formula 1\u2019s popularity has inspired the potential change to four days to include more entertainment.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>While the race format would stick to its traditional Friday, Saturday and Sunday running, Thursday could include more races from support categories.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A similar set-up is already utilised for the Australian Grand Prix, which runs across four days with Supercars, Porsche Carrera Cup and S5000 on the Thursday.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The British Formula 1 Grand Prix is set to take place July 7-9.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \n\n<div class=\"tax-cat-tags\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"col-sm-6 tax-cat\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<p class=\"\">Filed under<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"btn\" >Awards<\/button>|<button class=\"btn\" >Ticketing<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"col-sm-6 tax-tags\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<p class=\"\">Tags<\/p>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"btn\" >Ticketing<\/button>|<button class=\"btn\" >Stadiums<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n --><\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theticketingbusiness.com\/2023\/01\/13\/british-grand-prix-organisers-suggest-four-day-weekend\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The Formula 1 British Grand Prix could become a four-day race weekend to offer motorsport fans more on-track action. Speaking on the main stage at motorsport event\u00a0Autosport International in Birmingham yesterday (Thursday), the managing director of Silverstone (pictured), where the British GP is staged, said that Formula 1 needed to change the format of &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[704,117,119,73,1714,191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-british-grand-prix","category-formula-1","category-motorsport","category-sales","category-silverstone","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}