McLaren Formulation One driver Lando Norris urged environmental activists on Monday to not put lives in peril with ‘silly and egocentric’ protests throughout this weekend’s British Grand Prix at Silverstone.

Six “Simply Cease Oil” campaigners ran on to the monitor after a gap lap crash finally 12 months’s race and the identical group has disrupted cricket, horse racing, rugby and snooker in latest months.

Protesters scattered orange powder on the outfield at Lord’s through the second Ashes cricket take a look at in June.

“There’s a concern. It’s a silly factor to do to place your life in peril with automobiles driving round,” Norris instructed reporters at McLaren’s Woking manufacturing facility on the reveal of a brand new one-off Google Chrome automotive livery for Silverstone.

“It’s a very egocentric factor to do on the identical time due to the implications it has on the individual that drives the automotive if one thing occurred.

“Everybody has a proper (to protest) and I suppose there are good methods of doing it and worse methods,” added the 23-year-old Briton.

“I hope individuals are sensible sufficient to not do it. There are a lot safer methods to get simply as a lot consideration and do what they need to do.”

Greater than 140,000 spectators are anticipated on race Sunday at Silverstone.

These demonstrators concerned in final 12 months’s protest at Silverstone have been convicted in February of inflicting a public nuisance.

5 of them ran on to the high-speed Wellington Straight after Alfa Romeo’s Chinese language driver, Zhou Guanyu, crashed and halted the July 3 race.

Automobiles have been nonetheless driving again to the pit lane as marshals and police dragged the protesters away.

“Going to a racetrack with automobiles coming at 200 mph will not be the way in which to go about it,” mentioned Norris’s Australian group mate Oscar Piastri.

“They’ve had the implications of their actions from final 12 months, in fact I hope it does not occur once more. I am positive Silverstone can have measures in place to cease it.

“It is clearly a bit simpler and fewer harmful to leap onto a cricket subject than a racetrack.”