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Seven times world champion Lewis Hamilton said on Thursday Formula One could be moving too fast with the decision to allow a capacity crowd at his home British Grand Prix next month.
The sport announced earlier that hundreds of thousands of fans could attend the July 16-18 grand prix at Silverstone, with some 140,000 on race Sunday.
That would be the biggest crowd at a sporting event since the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a national lockdown in March last year.
Lewis Hamilton is uncertain over the return of capacity crowds at Silverstone next month
Hamilton said he is excited to see a packed Silverstone again but is fearful of Covid spreading
The last pre-pandemic race held at the circuit with spectators in 2019 saw a three-day attendance of 351,000 and 141,000 on Sunday. The circuit hosted two races last year, both without a crowd.
'I'm kind of split,' Mercedes driver Hamilton told reporters ahead of the Styrian Grand Prix at Austria's Red Bull ring.
'I can't tell you how excited I am to see people and the British crowd, because it is the best crowd of the whole year.
'Obviously I watch the news so I hear about the cases going up massively in the UK and so on that side I worry for people, naturally.'
Hamilton said he did
