Grapevine: Dunlop Bridge to be dismantled

The bridge will be placed into storage, and while it will not be rebuilt over the new circuit, track boss Simon Gillett said that it will continue to have a presence somewhere at Donington Park in the future, with one possibility being a location near the main entrance.

"We're storing it, and then we're going to decide where it is going to go," Gillett said. "Maybe [we'll] change the 'Dunlop' to 'Donington' but in the same typeface. Part of the problem with the Dunlop Bridge is that MotoGP is Bridgestone, it's Pirelli for World Superbikes, Bridgestone for F1, so commercially you can't have it.

"There is the safety point of view because of the width of it, and also the location because the new pits and paddock are going there.

"So there are lots of reasons - it's current location is wrong, it is not wide enough, and then there are the commercial reasons ... we'd be constantly painting over the Dunlop. So it just couldn't stay. But we'll find a home for it. It won't work over the track, but it will be somewhere nearby."