Following talks at last weekend's Australian Grand Prix, F1 had set itself a 10-day deadline to make a final call on the fate of April's Bahrain and Saudi Grands Prix, a timeline largely dictated by freight logistics to the Gulf as the US and Israeli war on Iran continues to engulf the region.
The two Arabian races are twinned to optimise F1's complicated logistics, so it would be difficult to pull off one but not the other - although it is understood there was some hope to somehow salvage the Jeddah round.
