Will the British GP survive?

[Monty]

I wasn't trying to make a big thing about this, I am just making the point that Donnington could handle F1 (I am not suggesting it would be easy but definitely possible). I go to Donnington for BTCC and Motorcycle meets and feeding traffic in from the Motorway works reasonably well.
Ironically, a GP at Donnington would be a bit like the old GP's at Silverstone before they improved the roads!
Reference to London and other City races was just to point out that 'where there is a will there is a way!'
My only comment about the failed attempts to sell Silverstone is to say that the failures were not due to lack of interest but more due to the ridiculous valuation the BRDC put on the venue!
Clearly, Silverstone is the best venue for F1 and I really hope that it retains the British GP.

[Scott]

Silverstone is flat, Monza is flat (except for the one little tunnel).  Both have their pluses and minuses, but from a spectator point of view, flat is boring and limits viewpoints. 

Barcelona was amazing for that.  From our viewpoint we could see a gap to the front straight, giving us the sound and spectacle as the cars blurred past towards turn one, as well as turns 7-8 and the short spurt uphill to the entry of turn 7.  If you wandered up for a hot dog or beer, you could see another section of track with the straight before turn 4, then turn 5 while you were waiting in line.  All that for general admission.  At Monza I could see one corner and the end or beginning of a straight in the three different places I sat and paid for seating (plus the food was 10x better at Barca).

...moral of the story, there is something to be said for a hilly track.  I would rather see improvements at Donnington or Brands Hatch and move the British GP to either of those from boring Silverstone.

As for Monza, I don't know what I would do.  Imola isn't much better than Monza as far as hilly-ness goes.  Maybe Italy should build a track up near the Swiss border in the Italian Alps, but I could be biased.   

[Alianora La Canta]

Vallelunga's pretty flat, but has the advantage that you could probably get 1000-2000 people onto the control tower. There you have practically a 360-degree view of the track! Elsewhere, unless you insist on sitting on the start/finish straight grandstand, expect a view of about 1/3 of the track at the time. It's also Grade 2, even if it is technically too short to become Grade 1 in its current state.

(Downside; nearly everyone has to stay in either Rome or Viterbo and drive into the venue, because there's neither much accommodation, nor much overnight parking, within about 10 miles of the track...)