Bojan Vrbnjak
In the light new rules from 2021, Formula 1 greats anticipate - or think about - that they would changed the traditional timetable weekend. On the one hand, for making it shorter, on the other hand relieve team employees with an increasing number of races. It's in a Suzuki typhoon Hagibis make sure they have to complete the entire program within two days. The third workout fell into the water without compensation, qualifiers will be on Sunday the morning before the race.
With the racers, this came across positive response. Already Friday was a bit more exciting because the second free practice could count for as well distribution of starting points, so that in addition to the race simulation, the teams also performed qualifying experiments. “We used a good engine mode and I think that's a pretty good format,”He says Romain Grosjean, who certainly imagines that this could ever happen again. “You have an hour and a half, you have tires, you have time, you have to drive longer distances in the afternoon, and you also want to drive a few fast laps. There is a lot of action in this format,”So the team racer Haas. The Frenchman believes that such a two-day program would make sense.
He fully agrees with him an Australian counterpart at the team Renault. "In Formula 1, we have too much time for training. We don't need four hours," so Daniel Ricciardo and recalls that racers because of the tire situation and saving engine and other materials race very limited. “I think we can all succeed in two days,”So RIcciardo. “Why not? It doesn't bother me,”Also agrees Daniil Kvyat, and in the same camp we also find Nice Hülkenberg: “After ten years, I would definitely welcome the change in format. I'm not against it."
First of all, the racers would get rid of it quite a bit unpopular Thursday. "And then Friday,”So popular Hulk. But it's Thursday traditionally reserved for the media. "I can also talk to you on Friday night, no worries,”Adds the German. But no matter what the new racing weekend format will look like, one day less would be good for everyone, so racers. “Then the boys could spend more time at home, us too,” he says Kvyat. “But it’s mostly about the guys, the mechanics who work so many days. Maybe an extra day of rest could just invigorate them, so why not?”Because for many teammates, there is a racing weekend Formula 1 does not start on Friday and end on Sunday. You have to already work hard from Wednesday onwards, and they only leave the venue on Monday or Tuesday.
Lastly, we were constantly debating around the new Formula 1 calendar. It will be next year a record 22 races, and there could be more in the future, because Liberty Medium mentions the number 24 or 25. Of course, this with the participants of the championship Formula 1 did not meet with approval. “We have 22 races next year. And if we shortened the weekend by one day, that would be good. In this case, 22 races can be run,”He continues Daniel Ricciardo.
