Ecclestone Casts Doubt Over Korean GP
F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has expressed doubts over whether the inaugural Korean Grand Prix, scheduled to take place in October, will go ahead.
Ecclestone hopes the race will happen but says doubts will remain until the Yeongam track passes an FIA inspection.
He stated: ‘It’s not good. It should have been inspected six weeks ago. What we’ve done is quite dangerous. It’s a question of do we cancel the race or not? They say everything will be OK – we have to hope they’re right.’
The Korean International Circuit, which has still to be completed, was initially scheduled for an inspection on 21st September, but that was a public holiday in Korea.
FIA press officer Alexandra Schieren said the new inspection, by FIA race director Charlie Whiting, would take place on 11th October.
F1 cars are scheduled to take to the track for practice on Friday 22nd October, qualifying a day later and the race on Sunday 24th October.
The Korean circuit is the only new venue on the F1 calendar this season and has been designed by Hermann Tilke, the man behind the layouts of the new tracks in Malaysia, China, Bahrain and Abu Dhabi.
