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Originally Posted by Coach Ep
Bahrain date won´t change - it´s right in between two GP´s (Korea + India), so setting the Chinese round on November 18th wouldn´t influence any of that.
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Why do the F1 races even matter? So is it the ACO's contention that it is better to conflict with Petit than it is to conflict with an F1 date? If so, in whose mind does that make sense?
Even if you think that F1 media will magically go to Bahrain on their off time between Korea and India, what happens to the sports car specialist media that we know will be at either Petit or Bahrain? They're splitting the only coverage they are guaranteed to get. So what briehead came up with that decision?
I doubt the situation is such that Bahrain is totally unavailable one weekend after or whatever. If they are unwilling to move some autocross or rickshaw race or whatever, then is this really a circuit you want to have a long-term relationship with?
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Mind you, the date and venue for the Chinese WEC round was not yet announced at the formal presentation of the WEC calender last week. So nothing new.
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The ACO
lists Nov. 11th as the date of the Chinese round.