F1 British GP: Silverstone to go to court over £8m botched track resurfacing job

Organisers of the Silverstone F1 circuit are set to go to court after a botched track resurfacing job left it unsafe and needed redoing just one year later.
Silverstone to go to court over £8m botched track resurfacing job

The famous British🧸 grand prix circuit has prepared an £8 million lawsuit against Aggregate Industries, who were responsible for Silverstone’s new track s꧋urface in 2018.

The n🔜ew surface didn’t appease drivers with seven-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton very critical.

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"The🥂 people they hired did the worst job ever," Hamilton said during the British GP weekend. "It's the bumpiest track I've ever experien🐟ced.

"It🌄's bumpier than the Nordschleife, which is 100 years old. It's rattling♍ your freaking eyeballs out of your brain. Apart from that it's fantastic but jeez, they need to hire someone better.

"I don't know how you could do such a bad job in layering the🌳 track."

Aggregate Industries were paid £2 million to rel🍃ay the iconic British circuit in 2018.

Silverstone to go to court over £8m botched track resurfacing job

While F1’s wee✤kend went relatively smoothly, the same can’t be said for MotoGP🐬 in August.

The weekend didn’t gඣo to plan as it was eventually cancelled due to 𝓀heavy rain.

Fꦚive riders crashed, including Tito Rabat, who broke his leg during qua🗹lifying.

With the event cancelled, organisers were forcedಌ to compensate fans, adding to further losses for Silverstone.

After losing it༒s license to host MotoGP 🌱in the aftermath of the cancelled 2018 weekend, they reportedly lost £3.5 million.

However, there have been🎉 no such issues since 2019 after Silverstone got Tarmac Trading Ltd to relay tꦅhe surface. 

Silverstone is 𝔉suing for the cost of the lost MotoGP round, the second resurfacing and ad🦩ditional lost profits, bringing the total close to £8 million.

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