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Saudi Arabia want sprint race and early 2022 slot

The Saudi Arabian Grand Prix promoters want to host the third sprint qualifying trial this year and fill an early slot on the 2022 calendar. The first race in the nation will take place this season, filling the penultimate slot on the calendar as things stand. Going forward though, Prince Khalid Bin Sultan Al Faisal says that he'd rather it go ahead earlier in the year and said a late slot was only agreed to this season as it was the only way the race could happen in 2021 as the venue wasn't ready in time. 'For us as a promoter, we prefer not to be the last races,' he said as per autosport.com. 'Teams can do good really in the first races and then the other races have become not so...
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