Formula One’s 20-race 2012 calendar has been approved unchanged by the sport’s governing body despite previous doubts about races in Bahrain and the US, according to the International Automobile Federation (FIA).
An FIA statement confirmed the development on Wednesday.
“The 2012 FIA Formula One World Championship calendar was confirmed as previously published,” read the statement, which was issued after a World Motor Sport Council meeting in New Delhi. The calendar had looked uncertain after Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone handed a contract ultimatum to organisers of the US Grand Prix in Austin, Texas. There has also been uncertainty about Bahrain’s race, cancelled this year due to civil unrest that continues to trouble the kingdom.
Ecclestone had said at the season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix last month that he doubted the US GP, scheduled for November 18 next year, would happen.
“They’re not complying with the terms and conditions of the contract,” he said.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 8th, 2011.
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