F1 Team Boss Admits Schedule Will Be Tight

Christian Horner, team boss of Red Bull Racing, has admitted it will be difficult to fit the recently postponed Bahrain Grand Prix into the Formula One calendar, after it was cancelled last week.

The race was called off by the country’s Crown Prince, after Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone left the decision to him, following the unrest in the country.

The Bahrain Grand Prix was scheduled to open the 2011 season on 13th March, but will now be opened in Australia two weeks later.

No decision has been made on a new date for Bahrain, or indeed, whether there will be a Bahrain Grand Prix or not.

Horner said: ‘It will certainly be a challenge to accommodate, but nothing is ever impossible. It’s a very busy calendar this year. Already now, at the end of November, we’ll have finished 19 races’.

There was however, no problem from Horner about the decision to postpone the start of the new season.

Horner added: ‘Obviously the country’s got bigger issues than a Formula 1 race at the moment. It was only right and appropriate to postpone’.