Silverstone bosses offered to host as many as 12 Formula 1 races in 2020 in a bid to get the delayed season under way.
The British Grand Prix is set to take place at the Northamptonshire circuit on Sunday ahead of a 70th Anniversary race at the same track two weeks later.
But Silverstone managing director Stuart Pringle said: “We offered to make the track available for a period of months.
"If they could get a championship away from one location - at one stage it looked like nothing could happen and the answer was 'ship in the Italian teams and Swiss team, and the Pirelli guys, and park them at Silverstone for a couple of months and run 12 races around Silverstone'.
"The view was taken pretty quickly that that would be a bit dull, but they came back and said 'actually, two [would] be quite helpful'.
"And if you bag, within the first month, half the races you need for a world championship by going to two venues that you know you can control with a tight bubble, quarantine, whatever, then that's a massive leg up on your journey towards securing eight races for a world championship."
