JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia is open to the potential for internet hosting two Components One races per season sooner or later, in line with chairman of the Saudi Vehicle & Motorbike Federation Prince Khalid bin Sultan Al-Abdullah Al Faisal.

The third working of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix will happen this weekend in Jeddah, however work is already underway on the nation’s second F1 circuit in Qiddiya.

The Qiddiya circuit, which is a part of a wider development mission 40 kilometres from Riyadh, just isn’t anticipated to be prepared for racing till 2027 and was initially earmarked as a substitute for Jeddah. However with two F1 circuits in Saudi Arabia sooner or later, Prince Khalid mentioned there was the potential for 2 races per 12 months.

“The concept of getting two races in Saudi is doable,” Prince Khalid mentioned. “F1 is rising, there’s quite a lot of demand right here and since Saudi is massive, the areas are so distant, it is just like the [United] States.

“You’ve three races within the States as a result of the market is massive there and there’s a demand. The demand is there, however the resolution just isn’t made.

“There’s quite a lot of issues that we have to think about and I do not know if even we need to host two races right here, is it sensible and possible for FOM and the groups?

“We constructed this monitor [Jeddah] to final, so in idea, sure we will have two races. The game is rising, the demand is rising, so I might not be shocked if Saudi, within the close to future, will host two races, I would not be shocked.

“The demand is there and we’ve got two stunning services.”

Requested if Saudi Arabia was engaged in talks with F1 a few second race, he added: “No, it is too early. It is too early however from what I am seeing, the expansion of F1 and in addition the expansion in Saudi Arabia, as I mentioned, we’re a really massive nation, we’ve got the most important inhabitants and the strongest financial system.

“There’s quite a lot of issues that we have to think about however I am certain that the folks in Saudi Arabia could be joyful to have a race in Qiddiya and Jeddah, we will supply two races. Even when that occurs, it will be two distinctive races, they’ll be two completely different distinctive races, for what I am seeing and what’s deliberate for Qiddiya.

“So you are going to have two distinctive venues, completely different areas, I am certain if you are going to do it, it will be two completely different… I imply one at the start and one on the finish. Too early for this, however I would not be shocked.”

Saudi Arabia has additionally been linked to the opening race of the 2024 season in an effort to keep away from a date conflict with the month of Ramadan, which is able to run from March 10 to April 8. Prince Khalid mentioned the timing of F1’s opening race subsequent 12 months means both Bahrain or Saudi Arabia will take the slot.

“The issue is we’ll have Ramadan — Ramadan yearly it shifts like 10 days, 11 days earlier,” he mentioned. “And one in every of us, it is both going to be Saudi or Bahrain that may have a race earlier than Ramadan, and after Ramadan, the climate in April and Could is scorching.

“So March is the final time the place the climate is appropriate. We noticed races used to occur in April in Bahrain, and it was too scorching. So it is both going to be us or Bahrain, however as I mentioned, we have to focus on with FOM and the groups, after which we make our resolution.

“In any other case, it should shift to someplace, I imply, October or after October, the place the climate begins to get higher in our area.”