Bernie Ecclestone has offered to extend the deadline offered to the organisers of the Bahrain Grand Prix, in the hope the race can be rescheduled later in the year.
The 80-year-old insisted things can change ‘within weeks’, despite ongoing protests and issues in the country.
“We need to wait a little bit to see exactly how progress is made,” he told Reuters, but he admitted it could be “bye-bye Bahrain.”
The FIA has set a decision deadline of May 1st, but with this date just days away, such a decision is unlikely to be made within the timescale.
Ecclestone believes a summer decision is more appropriate given how quickly things change.
“I suppose we’d be safe by early June or something like that,” he said.
“Things can change in a couple of weeks…so you don’t know. All of a sudden everything might be peaceful in a month’s time and they are happy to run the event and so we are happy to be there.”
The FIA must agree to any deadline extension, it is understood Ecclestone and Jean Todt are dicussing the matter.
