No Bahrain? Australia to start? What will Ferrari and Nico Rosberg do?

With the political unrest currently in the Middle East spreading into Bahrain over the past week the world of F1 seems set to end up making some sort of political statement. They have a scheduled test and then the first GP of the year both set to happen in the next month in a country that is beginning to show the same dissatisfaction as other Middle Eastern countries and bar Iran they have succumbed to the pressure and had to do something.

F1 will want to keep it’s hands clean in the political sphere to avoid harming and future deals with either the current or any future power holders in the country but without a swift end to the protests it can’t justify aligning itself with any faction that would be the case were the GP to be held. I suspect that the situation will have calmed down for the race though the test will be moved to Spain.

What would a cancellation mean for the season though? Well it would deny Ferrari the chance to run away with a victory like last year with a car that likes the Sakir circuit and Nico Rosberg would be denied the chance to trounce Michael Schumacher at one of his favourite tracks. But apart from that? Not much would change, we’d have one less race to watch, but it’s not the most exciting track of the year, Bernie’s pockets would probably be a little less full, but I’m sure he can cope (he’ll probably pass the loss on to the teams anyway).

So F1 don’t hold turn away and take the money, make the right decision based on what’s happening.

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