There will be 20 races in 2011, after Bernie Ecclestone said the new Indian GP, to be introduced next season, will not replace any of the current races.
Asked in Bahrain if there was going to be 20 races in 2011, Ecclestone replied: “Why, do you want more? It’s a round number and easy to remember.”
He is also keen on getting F1 back into the USA, after Mario Andretti called the lack of a US race, an ‘unthinkable travesty’. Andretti also said Indianapolis was the natural place for the race, something Bernie agreed with.
Asked if Indianapolis was the natural place for F1 in America, Bernie said: “Yeah, it is. It’s only the fact that it’s all the wrong crowd and the wrong people and they didn’t really… nothing worked there really, we’d have to have a big change round. But we’d like to get back there.”
