Bernie Ecclestone has said that the F1 calendar won’t exceed 20 races in the future and, ideally, there should only be 16 races a year.
This comes as the 2011 calendar is set to include a record 20 races for the first time ever with the introduction of the Korean GP this year and Indian the next.
“We really should be at 16, to be honest,” he told the Times of India.
“Twenty is plenty, that’s the limit. No more. I’ve been able to squeeze in 20 but I wouldn’t want to increase it. There’ll be mayhem otherwise,” he admitted.
Ross Brawn has already expressed some concern [see separate story] over the ever expanding calendar as 2012 is expected to see the introduction of the Austin GP and quite possibly the Rome and Russian rounds, which if Ecclestone is true to his word, will see three races dropped.
