Silverstone’s hopes of staging the British Grand Prix 👍have significantly improved after Formula 1 was given the go-ahead by the UK governmenඣt to hold two races this summer.

F1 hoped to get the heavily-delayed 2020 season off the ground with back-to-back races in Austria in♍ early July before returning to Britain for another double-header event at Silverstone, but t🐟he plans were dented by the introduction of the UK government’s new quarantine rules which will force international arrivals to observe a 14-day quarantine period from June 8.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:kickstarted an intervention to ensure the rac꧟es could go ahead and the UK government has sinc꧋e indicated that its travel restrictions will be relaxed for elite sports following weeks of talks.

Speaking during a briefing on Saturday, Oliver Dowden, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, specifically mentioned F1 as ♏the UK government declared the resumption of sport behind closed doors from Monday June 1.

"The wait is over," Dowden said.

"Live British sport will shortly be back on in safe and carefully controlled environments. This guidance 🦄provid🌸es the safe framework for sports to resume competitions.

"It's up to each☂ individual sport to decide exactly when to resume competition; they know their sports b♊est.

"But football, tennis, 🐓horse racing, F1, cricket, golf, rugby, snooker and others are set to return to our screens shortly, with horse racing first out of the gate in the north-east next week.”

Despite not gaining an overall blanket exemption, it is understood th🍸at the government will now provide flexibility for sports personnel arriving in the UK 🔯providing a detailed plan of travel arrangements and movements within the country is approved.

An F1💞 spokesperson said:  "We welcome the gover🦩nment's efforts to ensure elite sport can continue to operate and their support for our return to racing.

"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.”

It comes as F1 is expected to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:unveil its planไs for the European leg of the revised 2020 calendar in the coming days, foll𝓡owin🍷g the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Silverstone’s pair of races are set to be the fourth and fifth even✨ts on the calendar on August 2 and August 9.

The 2020 world championship season will start with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:back-to-back races in Austria on July 5 and July 12, followed by the Hungarian Grand Prix on July 16, the Silverstone double-header, and then further rounds in Spai𒐪n, Belgium and Italy.

Al🐼l European rounds will take place behind closed doors within a "biosphere" environment, wiﷺth everyone in the paddock set to be frequently tested for coronavirus. F1's 10 teams will be limited to a maximum of 80 people at each race.