Toto Wolff: Friday’s training has to stay

In light of the new rules for the year 2021, are also great Formula 1 they are not ashamed to question long-established practices. Lastly, there has been quite a bit of discussion about deleting Friday’s workouts or at least shortening them. This would bring with it quite a few advantages, namely: The burden on employees due to the increasingly extensive race calendar Formula 1 it would be reduced, there would be less cost, and there would be potentially more action in the races because teams would not be able to prepare perfectly.

Toto wolff, team boss Mercedes Benz, is against deleting Friday entirely from the race weekend. “We did this some time ago in the DTM series, and the racing weekend no longer felt spectacular and special. If you shorten this to two days, then you take away a certain value from the racing week."

Toto Wolff, head of the Mercedes team, is categorically against deleting Friday’s workouts

But because he wants to Formula 1 to be the crown of motorsport, we should stay for three days, I think Wolff. But what the Austrian can imagine would be to cancel one of Friday's training sessions or to reduce the time of both from 90 to 60 minutes. “These are things we could talk about, but I am strongly against deleting Friday altogether."

Even Sebastian Vettel doesn’t want to shorten the racing weekend

Even racers aren’t exactly there to shorten the race time. “I love racing, which would make it very bad if they took some of it away from us,”To me Sebastian Vettel. "We’re a little on the track anyway, even though we have a lot of races. That would be a shame if that happened.“Racer Ferrari he would rather press his finger on other wounds and here he agrees with him as well Lewis Hamilton. He understands the background of these discussions, but adds: "We undoubtedly have bigger problems," said Vettel.

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