Why small races, Motogp-Style Sprint and reverse grids are all for “Agenda” F1

According to F1’s CEO Stephano Domainiki, Formula 1 weekend formats are likely to undergo radical changes, which is categorized to complete the young audience and low attention span.

Pack calendar with more Sprint events, Adjust the format of these racesAnd before the Grands Prix is ​​shortened, it has been discussed with stakeholders including drivers. Dominical claims that the majority is now in favor of such measures.

As fans, the message is inevitably ‘habbles whether you like it or not’.

Changes are not only coming to integrate TV audiences, but also to enable race promoters to offer a package that will encourage ticket sales over the weekend.

Currently, the non-sprint weekend has a two-hour F1 practice sessions on Friday, and the feeling is that there is no built-in tale to simply trick the cars from all around the track. Inadequately attractive,

Dominally told selected media, including Autosport, “Sprint is a subject on the table related to the format using the format starting with the weekend.”

“We need to understand whether to increase them, how to increase them, and whether to use different formats. We have many discussions with teams to decide the direction.

“I have to say that apart from some old dye-hard fans, everyone wants sprint weekend. Promoters push for this format and now the drivers are also interested.

“I am a little exciting, but the free practice appeals to super-experts; people who want to see more action. They prefer sprint weekends. It is more to discuss and comment from Friday-a qualifying session-but I think it is to be a part of F1 culture.

“The direction is clear: I can guarantee that all weekends will be demanded with the same format in a few years. I am not saying that we will meet in Motogp, which has a sprint in every round – this is a very big step. I see it as a maturity process that respects the more traditionalist attitude.

“For drivers, initially 18 were against sprints and were on two sides-today is the opposite. We discussed it in the dinner held in Austria and everyone spoke in favor. Even Max, with whom I spoke one by one, is starting to say that, so I see development to everyone. Finally, the driver is born for the race.”

If true, it will be an important reversal. The verster has been the most important in the sprint format, which was introduced in 2021.

Under the initial format, a qualifying session on Friday set the grid for Saturday’s sprint, the result of which determined the grid for Sunday’s grand prix.

In practice, however, the sprint essentially rearranged the ground in speed order, of course, instead of improving the spectacle on Sunday, it certainly separated from; And only the proposal given to the top three finishers was considered a bad reward for attendant risks.

The debugging process required two more recurrents before reaching the current format. But many drivers, including Vastapane, remain vigorously negative; In Austria, that dinner must have been really firm.

The argument of dominical is that simulation technology is sufficiently advanced for teams to go without two hours of practice on Friday. Tiger warnings for sensitive readers: Yes, he definitely spoke on the possibilities of using artificial-warning equipment without being more specific.

But the mood music is that the public will get what the public wants – or F1, Race Promoters and Broadcasters think they want. And it is more racing, less opaque and appears that inconsistent lane.

“Promoters and fan want action,” Dominally said. “And now that they begin to understand that it is possible: our surveys show that the vast majority of the audience want the driver to fight for a result.

“To keep it clearly, they are tired of free practice. This is a purposeful fact that we cannot ignore.”

Short Grands Prix is ​​also on the agenda. This will also cause traditionalists to chaf, although 75 years ago from the beginning of the World Championship to the end of 1957, GPS was usually up to three hours.

For a modern TV audience, Belgium Grand Prix of 1956, to take a random example, may be able to create interest to greens. After two hours and 40 minutes, there were only eight cars running in the spa, then more than 14 km long; The victorious Peter Collins crossed the line about two minutes before Paul Frare in second place, and everyone was at least one lap down under the podium positions.

But even the current race “may be a bit longer for the young audience” says domainley.

“We are looking at many of our channels that highlights do very well. All of us who have grown up with the current format, everything is fine, but there is a big section that only wants to see important moments.

“Things are going on very well today, but exactly for this reason we should not rest on our praise. We need to think about the next step.”

Horriously it may look for traditionalists, worse than this, because it has been since amendment
Reverse-grid concept is also being looted. Domainici justified the idea to bring back the idea that “F2 and F3 have been forms for decades”, in this case the definition of plural means ‘more than one’.

“This is on our agenda,” he said. “We have previously discussed this, but in the coming months we will need courage to pursue the discussion again because I have heard that many drivers have proposed it. First of all everyone was against it, but in the last meeting, many of them said, ‘Why don’t we try?’

“I don’t think there is a single correct or wrong trend here – every opinion is value. We will evaluate it with an FIA and explain a developed trend as much as possible, to ensure that.”

One wonder what else can happen on the table. Decision of grid posts by drawing lots of drawing? Do not do it out.

The British Touring Car Championship adopted a similar system in mid -2010s, determining the balls from a reversed grid a vessel for the final race for the weekend. It did not take a long time for a driver to cheat, resulting in apologizing on Live TV in the brand hatch in 2015, after accepting a glimpse of a glimpse in the pot before pulling the number 10 in the brand hatch in 2015, who gave him the position of the pole.