Donington Park aims to be the first anti-pollution GP…

According to the English press, the 2010 Grand Prix at Donington Park is focused on ecology. It will be the first of its kind and is expected to prohibit access to its parking lot for motorists. Shuttles and buses will be set up from major British cities to also ensure traffic flow.

According to Simon Gillett, the organizer of the Grand Prix across the Channel, visitors will be required to book their tickets along with accommodations on-site or in the region. They will thus arrive via the East Midlands Airport (Leicester-Nottingham).

« This will be the first Grand Prix with on-site transportation. We do not want to congest the region, so we will use all public transportation in the area; including bus stations, train stations, and airports. »

Another explanation, less pleasant to read, concludes that the M1 motorway, the main access route to the circuit, would not have been able to absorb all the traffic generated by such an event. Even though these measures should ease traffic flow, many doubts still linger over the circuit’s capacity to accommodate thousands of spectators.

In 2007, for the first Japanese GP in Fuji, most people arrived by bus, which didn’t prevent 3,000 citizens from missing the Grand Prix, stuck in traffic jams…

Before Donington Park, there will still be the last British Grand Prix at Silverstone to consider.