The chairman of the Saudi Automobile & Motorcycle Federation, has admitted that the country is open to hosting two rounds of the Formula One World Championship.
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Today's team representatives press conference with Toto Wolff, Franz Tost, James Vowles and Alessandro Alunni Bravi.
The constantly evolving track conditions and improvements to the setup that teams will make in FP3 suggest that a one-stop strategy using medium and soft is most likely for the race.
Work remains to be done to improve the performance of the C43 for this challenging track, but the team - both in Jeddah and back in Hinwil - is crunching the data to be in the best possible shape tomorrow.
With a very low deg circuit then the lap times will always be very close, so it is definitely not going to be like Bahrain.
Whatever happens in qualifying, we had decent long run pace today, overtaking is easier than in Bahrain and we will be looking to increase our points tally on Sunday.
We had no significant problems during the sessions, though there's obviously a bit of work to do, extracting performance from the MCL60.
We have a lot of data to analyse as usual for a Friday and we will continue to look at everything tonight and into tomorrow. Our main goal will be to reach Q3 again.
The pace when we get the lap together didn't look too bad, but the car hasn't been easy enough to drive so that's something we'll look to improve tomorrow ahead of qualifying.
Overall, we were satisfied with the day, the midfield is very compact, but we think we have a car that is able to compete in that group here.
Verstappen, Alonso and Perez covered by 0.299s in second practice, as traffic issues make Jeddah look like an accident waiting to happen.