Dom Gibbons
CEO ' s MESSAGE
As you know the Grand Prix is a tremendous collaboration between many organisations, and Motorsport UK plays a key role in managing the track operations including the cohorts of Marshals and Officials in cooperation with the FIA and Silverstone Circuits. The team spend 12 months preparing for the Grand Prix, and it is always an extremely pressurised activity, but as if that was not enough, the events team, under Colin Clark, managed to secure a slot for the Wera Tools British Formula 4 Championship on the Grand Prix timetable. This was a tremendous achievement, and meant it was the first time that all four levels on the FIA single-seater ladder appeared over one F1 weekend. It was impressive how this junior formula produced such fantastic racing. Both races were won by the 15-year-old Colombian Salim Hanna, who is only a rookie, but under the guidance of Juan-Pablo Montoya he certainly looks like a talent to watch.
Going back to building relationships with government, we had the pleasure to host a wide range of dignitaries and politicians including the Secretary of State for DCMS, Lisa Nandy, the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Peter Kyle, Sports Minister, Stephanie Peacock, and the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Economy of Scotland, Shona Robison.
These and many more highly influential guests came away tremendously impressed with everything that our fantastic industry is capable of delivering, and that Formula 1, based in the UK, has captured the hearts and minds over 750 million people globally. That is something we should all be proud of.
Finally, a huge congratulations to Lando Norris on his victory at Silverstone; I wish him well in his bid for a first Formula 1 world title.
We now move into National Motorsport Week, with over 100 events and activations, and the opportunity to celebrate the full spectrum of the sport across the UK. I hope everybody gets a chance to thoroughly enjoy it with some suitably warm weather.
Wishing everyone a happy and safe month of motorsport ahead.
Best regards, Hugh Chambers CEO, Motorsport UK
Dom Gibbons
Zak Brown received the Sir Malcolm Cambell Trophy on behalf of the McLaren F1 team
Lando Norris was awarded the Hawthorn Memorial Trophy for 2024, and has his eye on more success
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