Sunday October 27th, 2002

By Alan Baldwin

The Belgian Grand Prix looks more and more likely to be scrapped from the 2003 calendar, after the teams have decided at a meeting on Thursday not to go to Belgium if tobacco advertising restrictions were in place.

Team sources told Reuters the decision was conveyed in a meeting with FIA officials on Friday, however any decision must be formally approved on Monday.

Britain's Sunday Times newspaper suggested today that some new proposals may have been raised in Friday's meeting between team bosses, FIA officials and commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone.

The newspaper said that the most likely recommendations were for the scoring system to be tightened up, allowing a race winner still to take 10 points but the second placed driver eight rather than six.

The newspaper also suggested the qualifying format could also be changed, with cars to race consecutively rather than all at once as happens at present.

Published at 12:45:02 GMT