From GMM
Bosses of the British grand prix have said they do not support moves to cut Fridays out of formula one race weekends.
With the annual calendar looking likely to expand beyond 20 races in the next few years, Williams' Adam Parr said this weekend he is proposing the official event schedules be reduced to just two days.
"Friday is big at Silverstone. (Losing) it would reduce the people coming to stay," Richard Phillips, the Northamptonshire circuit's managing director, is quoted by the Mirror in the Istanbul Park paddock.
Added Neil England, Silverstone's chairman: "To take a day off seems to be madness. We had 80,000 last year on the Friday, why would anyone destroy that?"
And the F1 circus will leave Turkey without a decision about the sport's tyre supplier for 2011.
The sport arrived in Istanbul earlier this week amid speculation Pirelli had been selected and would be unveiled as Bridgestone's replacement before the event was out.
But then Michelin's Nick Shorrock arrived in the city, and the French marque's competition boss met for 90 minutes with team bosses on Sunday when he is believed to have presented one last improvement to its final offer.
The meeting broke with team figures saying only that a decision has not been made and is not due for a few more days.
Bosses of the British grand prix have said they do not support moves to cut Fridays out of formula one race weekends.
With the annual calendar looking likely to expand beyond 20 races in the next few years, Williams' Adam Parr said this weekend he is proposing the official event schedules be reduced to just two days.
"Friday is big at Silverstone. (Losing) it would reduce the people coming to stay," Richard Phillips, the Northamptonshire circuit's managing director, is quoted by the Mirror in the Istanbul Park paddock.
Added Neil England, Silverstone's chairman: "To take a day off seems to be madness. We had 80,000 last year on the Friday, why would anyone destroy that?"
And the F1 circus will leave Turkey without a decision about the sport's tyre supplier for 2011.
The sport arrived in Istanbul earlier this week amid speculation Pirelli had been selected and would be unveiled as Bridgestone's replacement before the event was out.
But then Michelin's Nick Shorrock arrived in the city, and the French marque's competition boss met for 90 minutes with team bosses on Sunday when he is believed to have presented one last improvement to its final offer.
The meeting broke with team figures saying only that a decision has not been made and is not due for a few more days.