THE EDITOR
“I couldn’t help but wince at the persistent booing for Max Verstappen”
WE HAD A YOUNG TRAINEE reporter in for work experience this month. Henry Hudson is in his first year studying journalism in Leeds and as his first assignment I sent him to Silverstone for British Grand Prix qualifying. The brief was pretty broad: go as a spectator, no special press passes, have fun and see what – if any – stories you can find.
It’s always good to see what catches The report described how the recordbreaking crowd of more than 400,000 fans over the weekend included a significant proportion of younger and female fans reflecting a broader trend across the sport. Hudson collared a couple of them as case studies talking to a young mum and her daughter (Lewis Hamilton and George Russell fans respectively) about what attracted them to F1.
