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New hope for British GP after Prime Minister intervention

The British Grand Prix could still go ahead this year after the U.K. Prime Minister called on his government to consider making F1's travelling personnel exempt from the country's new quarantine rules.

From June 8, new rules in the U.K. will require travellers entering the country to spend two weeks in quarantine -- a policy that looked set to scupper F1's plan to travel from a second race at the Red Bull Ring in Austria on July 12 to set up for the British Grand Prix at Silverstone on July 26.

The new government regulations are aimed at preventing a second wave of coronavirus infections in the U.