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Bahrain to host Grand Prix this year
Posted: Friday June 03rd 2011, 13:58 GMT
The FIA's World Motor Sport Council has decided that Bahrain will host a Grand Prix this year. The race that was originally scheduled to be the season opener but was postponed after civil unrest. In the wake of protests there were concerns about how the government intervened against protesters.
The Grand Prix will be held on October 30th. A date originally scheduled for the inaugural Indian Grand Prix. That race will be held at a later date that's to be decided. Recently the teams have spoken out against running the race. "It's getting too much," said Ross Brawn earlier this week. "Our guys have been working since January, we don't have test teams anymore, so the same guys have been working since January and we are asking them to work into December and that means there is no time for a holiday before Christmas and that would mean getting straight back in to it in January."
Former world champion Damon also spoke out against the Bahrain Grand Prix this year: "This crisis is an opportunity for Formula 1 to show it cares about all people and their human rights, If Formula 1 agrees to race in Bahrain it will forever have the blight of association with repressive methods to achieve order."
