India may now become the new venue for Formula One race. Just you may have to wait for next three years. If to be believed the words the sport’s commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone, India will host the F1 event in 2011.

He has made it clear that India is definitely in their list of venues and is seriously considering of it. Most probably India will get a space in the calendar of 2011. Ecclestone made this clear to Italy’s Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper. He was replying to a question on the future destinations of the sport.

Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president Suresh Kalmadi had made an announcement last year that India may host Formula1 in 2010. But two weeks ago in Ecclestone suggested a delay in the dates by one year. While speaking to reporters in reporters in Singapore, he told that the game may reach India in 2011.

Three venues including Moscow are also considered as new venues for F1.
There are official discussions going on about considering Abu Dhabi as new venue on the 18-race calendar for 2009. Earlier this year Singapore and Valencia were added for this season, with North America left without a grand prix for the first time in 50 years after Canada got axed.

According to Ecclestone, things work out in America in a different way. Certain world events, like Formula One in some countries or the Olympic Games, are financed by the state. While in America they are organised by private entities, who aims big profit even the first whistle is blown for the race. This is something indigestible. Singapore will be holding Formula One’s night race, which is the first of its kind and would remain the only one run under floodlights next season even if all the Asian races could in theory be held at that time. Ecclestone finds it hard to understand why there is a demand for holding the European races after dark.

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LONDON :Honda must not allow their current woes on the Formula One racetrack to distract them from their focus on next year, feels team principal Ross Brawn.
The Japanese team, with one of the biggest player in the sport, were overtaken in the constructors’ standings at Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix by Toro Rosso. It is now ranked ninth overall.

Only Force India and now-defunct Honda-backed Super Aguri, neither of whom have scored any points, rank lower in the table after 13 races.

“It is very frustrating,” feels former Ferrari technical director Brawn. He joined Honda last year and is seen as a frustrated man who could control his anger. “We’ve just got to try and keep our nerve and make sure that we don’t compromise next year at all,” he opened his mind to the press men at Spa. “If we can do things this year which help, then of course we will do. “But I think whether we finish eighth or ninth this year is not as important as making sure that we put on a much stronger performance next season.”

Honda’s Jenson Button finished 15th on Sunday, while Brazilian team mate Rubens Barrichello retired with a gearbox problem just before the half distance.

Neither have been officially confirmed for 2009, when major rule changes could shake up the pecking order among the teams. Honda have been openly courting Renault’s double world champion Fernando Alonso.

Brawn feels that the team should not put any extra effort and development into the current car. “None of the teams out there are stupid. Even the team at the back at the moment, Force India, is running three wind tunnels,” he said.

“It’s a tremendously competitive business. We haven’t taken our eye off the ball with the car but it’s just that our mindset is on next year. “When you do that, you sometimes pay the price. And there are some fundamentals about this car which in my view we can’t put right without rebuilding the car … we have to accept what we’ve got and its very frustrating,” he was seen telling the reporters here.

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