Bernie Ecclestone says a race on the Saturday of a grand prix weekend is one option on the table for 2017.
Following a letter from the teams demanding the return of the 2015 qualifying format in place of the elimination-style system used in the first two races, Ecclestone and the FIA conceded to the request with a change set to be implemented from the Chinese Grand Prix.
In a statement announcing the planned change, the FIA added: "Jean Todt and Bernie Ecclestone welcomed the idea put forward by the teams to have a global assessment of the format of the weekend for 2017."
Ecclestone has now told Sky F1 one of the options is to have a race on Saturday instead of a qualifying session.
"We’ve been looking," Ecclestone said. "Basically more the qualifying than anything.
"Maybe having a race on the Saturday which would count instead of qualifying, for example. We’re looking at all these things, which would be for next year obviously. We’ve made a big enough muck up to do that for this year so must not do that again."
Ecclestone has been campaigning for a change to the F1 race weekend format for some time, with the aim of providing better value for money for race promoters across the current three days of track action.
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