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Your support makes all the difference.The controversial Bahrain Grand Prix was officially scrapped from the 2011 calendar by Formula One's governing body the FIA on Tuesday.
The race, originally scheduled for March 13 but postponed after civil unrest in the Gulf kingdom left 30 dead, had been rescheduled into the calendar for October 3.
But the teams railed against that decision, saying they were not prepared to take part, forcing a climbdown from F1 authorities with the cancelling of the rearranged race.
Approving the calendar for the remainder of the year on Tuesday the FIA's World Motor Sport Council unanimously voted in favour of staging as originally planned the inaugural Indian Grand Prix on October 3, with Bahrain scrapped for this year.
Bahrain remains on the FIA's provisional 2012 calendar as the 11 March season-opener.
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