Industry Shorts: Silverstone, Irish Fa, Ipro
Silverstone Circuits has confirmed it would be willing to host back-to-back Formula 1 Grand Prixs as the sport looks to rearrange its 2020 schedule after the interruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
“We have discussed all sorts of permutations including hosting two races over one weekend and two races over consecutive weekends,” Stuart Pringle, MD, Silverstone Circuits told The Guardian. “I have complete confidence in our ability to put on these events. We have a lot of experience, a lot of knowledge, we can turn that on, definitely.”
The Irish FA and its Official Hydration Partner, iPRO, have donated a consignment of water earmarked for Northern Ireland’s international football teams to medical staff in the NHS Nightingale Centre in Belfast.
iPRO had delivered more than 10,000 bottles of water to the National Football Stadium at Windsor Park last month for use by Northern Ireland’s men’s and women’s international teams, but with international football postponed until further notice the association and iPRO decided the water should instead go to workers operating on the frontline in the fight against coronavirus.
The water has been donated to the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust and will be used at the Nightingale Centre as well as across a range of other locations in the Belfast area, including care homes.
The Kolisi Foundation, formed by Siya Kolisi and his wife Rachel to act as a platform for their philanthropic initiatives, have distributed food parcels to 500 households with vulnerable children.
The move is part of Kolisi’s attempts to aid the fight against the coronavirus pandemic in his native South Africa, where the foundation has already supplied more than 5,000 litres of hand sanitizer, 4,000 reusable face shields, 1,500 visors and 1,000 masks to healthcare workers in the country.
