Since hearing the announcement on Friday I have had a range of emotions; mainly anger. Firstly at Bernie for moving the GP after the tax payer had lashed out on upgrading the traffic links for Silverstone then (but having lived in Silverstone prior to the bypass its a great thing for the village in some ways).
Then I felt actually its his business and he has to make the best of it.
So its the BRDC who annoy me now. Damon Hill, Jackie Stewart and Martin Brundle all come on and bang on about the home of racing and how much they help the local economy, which economically can't be denied. But when I lived at Silverstone what appreciation did we get as part of the community? Tickets to see a 2CV race in October.
However, these guys at the top of UK motorsport all earn a good amount of cash, the majority live outside the UK to avoid tax, so why didn't they (a) divvy up the cash to make up what as needed to do the development and (b) get on with the redevelopment years ago instead of just builing a business park to get some more money in and stacking some portacabins on top of each other under the heading of 'modern corporate sponsor opportunity'.
They've wasted an opportunity, these people are the custoidans (DAmon Hill's words) of Silverstone, and they blew it.
Still they can all get together in a tax haven and bleat about it from there.