Melbourne may open F1 season as Bahrain hangs in balance
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Melbourne may become the opening race on this year’s F1 calendar as continuing social unrest in Bahrain threatens plans for the 2011 season’s Middle East curtain-raiser. Australian driver, Mark Webber, has added his voice to the growing call to cancel the Bahrain race, which is scheduled to take place on 13 March.
“It’s probably not the best time to go there for a sporting event. They have bigger things, bigger priorities,” Webber was reported saying. “In the end the right decisions will be made. Maybe it is still the first race, maybe Melbourne is the first race, we don’t know,” he added. Meanwhile the sport’s impresario, Bernie Ecclestone, told the BBC that he had “no idea” whether or not the Bahrain race would go ahead.
Melbourne had been the F1 season’s traditional opening race since 1996 until Bahrain took over last year.
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