Bahrain

The International Motorsport Federation (FIA) has come under renewed pressure to reconsider its decision to allow Formula One’s Bahrain Grand Prix to go ahead after a group of British politicians expressed their unease at the situation in the country.

Christian Horner, the influential team principal at Formula One team Red Bull, has voiced concerns about the “rather worrying” situation in Bahrain just six months before the championship is scheduled to visit the Gulf kingdom.

The International Motorsport Federation (FIA) has ratified the cancellation of this season’s Formula One Grand Prix after giving its backing to a revised calendar on Wednesday.

Jean Todt, the head of the International Motorsport Federation (FIA), has insisted it was Formula One rights-holder Bernie Ecclestone’s responsibility to carry out “due diligence” on the now-doomed Bahrain Grand Prix.

Formula One rights-holder Bernie Ecclestone admitted on Wednesday that the Bahrain Grand Prix is set to be dropped from the 2011 calendar after all.

The fate of the Bahrain Grand Prix is once again shrouded in uncertainty after Formula One rights-holder Bernie Ecclestone raised fresh concerns about the safety situation in the troubled Middle Eastern country.

Max Mosley, the former president of the global governing body of motorsport, has criticised the decision to reinstate the Bahrain Grand Prix to this year’s Formula One calendar.

The Indian Formula One Grand Prix could be shifted to a season-ending December slot if Bahrain is reinstated on the 2011 calendar, according to the Championship’s rights holder, Bernie Ecclestone.

Motorsport’s governing body, the FIA, has given organisers of the postponed Bahrain Formula 1 Grand Prix a further month to decide whether they will be able to stage the race later this year.

Formula One rights holder Bernie Ecclestone has insisted he is ready to give organisers of the postponed Bahrain Grand Prix more time to decide whether the race can take place later in the season.

Bahrain’s hopes of staging Formula One action this year appear to have disintegrated after the Gulf state declared a three-month state of emergency on Tuesday.

Organisers of the postponed Bahrain Formula One grand prix have been given until May 1 to decide whether or not they will be able to stage the race later in the 2011 calendar.

Bahrain will not have to forfeit its US$40 million staging fee after calling off the opening Formula One grand prix of the season, according to Bernie Ecclestone.

The opening Grand Prix of the Formula One season in Bahrain has been called off after a wave of anti-government protests in the country forced Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa to forfeit the hosting rights to the event.

Formula One's season-opening Grand Prix in Bahrain could be called off due to worrying instability in the country, according to the sport’s commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone.

Bahrain Grand Prix officials have pledged to deliver a safe race next month despite fears from Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone about growing unrest in the country.

World football’s governing body FIFA is investigating allegations against the Togo team that played an exhibition match against Bahrain on September 7. The team, which lost 3-0, was "completely fake" according to Seiyi Memene, chairman of Togo's interim football federation.

Powerboat P1 has confirmed Bahrain as the venue for the first ever Powerboat P1 Grand Prix to be staged in the Middle East.