Red Bull's Max Verstappen set the fastest time of the first practice session on Friday, followed by the Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton and the Racing Point of Lance Stroll. The idea was instituted after the Mercedes team rejected an alternate plan, for a reverse starting grid to be run on the second weekend. This aimed to not only create strategic differences between the two races, but also to force the teams to fully make use of practice time on the second weekend, instead of relying on data from the previous week. However, the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix, which was also held at Silverstone the following weekend, used the C2, C3 and C4 selection instead. Pirelli brought the C1, C2, C3 compound tyres for use in the race, the hardest three compounds available.
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However, this changed following a positive COVID-19 test for Racing Point driver Sergio Pérez who was ruled out of the Grand Prix.
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The initial driver and team race entry list was identical to the season entry list with no additional stand-in drivers for practice or the race. Entrants įurther information: 2020 Formula One World Championship § Entries Williams were the only team without a point, heading into the race. McLaren sat 14 points behind Red Bull in third, and were only one point ahead of fourth-placed Racing Point, who had 40 points, while Ferrari sat 5th on 27 points. Defending Constructors' Champion Mercedes, with 121 points, led the championship from Red Bull, who had 55. Championship standings before the race Īfter the third round at the 2020 Hungarian Grand Prix, defending champion Lewis Hamilton, on 63 points, led the championship by five points over his teammate Valtteri Bottas, with Max Verstappen a further 25 points behind. Both the British Grand Prix and the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix were held behind closed doors. It was later revealed that Silverstone offered to hold as many as 12 races in total during the season. The last season to have two British races in a season prior to this was the 1993 season, when Donington Park hosted the European Grand Prix and Silverstone hosted the British Grand Prix. The addition to the calendar of the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix on 9 August, also at Silverstone, marked the first time in twenty-seven years the United Kingdom had hosted two Formula One races in the same season. Before the races took place Northamptonshire Police reiterated the importance of fans staying away from Silverstone for public health reasons during the two racing weekends, and warned that strict measures would be in place to stop unauthorised persons from entering the circuit.
In the end, the British Government did give approval for Formula One to be held at Silverstone.
Īlthough there had been doubts over whether Silverstone would be able to host Formula One races due to quarantine measures proposed by the British government Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, said in a statement that he believed Formula One should be given an exemption. When the calendar was redrafted following the pandemic the Hungarian Grand Prix and British Grand Prix had swapped dates with Hungary moving to 19 July and Silverstone taking the 2 August date, the originally planned date of the Hungarian race. The British Grand Prix was originally intended to be held on 19 July. Several Grands Prix were cancelled or postponed after the planned opening round in Australia was called off two days before the race was due to take place prompting the FIA to draft a new calendar. The opening rounds of the 2020 championship were heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. See also: 2020 Formula One World Championship § Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, and Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports
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