F1 gets two-race Silverstone go-ahead despite quarantine rules: Report

This should allow Silverstone, the long-standing home of the British Grand Prix to host two races, believed to have been scheduled for August 2 and 9.

Silverstone is the long-standing home of the British Grand Prix,

Silverstone will be allowed to stage back-to-back races in the Formula One world championship later this summer despite British government plans to introduce a coronavirus quarantine period, reports claimed on Sunday.

The BBC said that people involved in elite sport will be exempted by the government from a requirement on all international travellers to self-isolate for 14 days on arrival in the UK.

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That should allow Silverstone, the long-standing home of the British Grand Prix to host two races, believed to have been pencilled in for August 2 and 9.

“We welcome the government's efforts to ensure elite sport can continue to operate and their support for our return to racing,” an F1 spokesman told the BBC .

“We will maintain a close dialogue with them in the coming weeks as we prepare to start our season in the first week of July.”

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The F1 season has yet to get underway in 2020 with 10 races either cancelled or postponed.

The championship will start with back-to-races in Austria on July 5 and 12 with the next round expected to be in Hungary on July 19.