Bojan Vrbnjak
Za Romain Grosjean, team racer Haas, it is clear: “The incidents in Japan proved that a racing weekend could easily be done in two days.“As is well known, it is a typhoon Hagibis sponsored that the nobles had to Formula 1 and organizers deleted the whole of Saturday’s happenings and qualifiers to be held on the Sunday morning before the race.
Discussions about the course of the racing weekend they have been around for a long time, but the Formula One sports boss Ross Brawn has now confirmed that on the three-day format would not change anything in the medium term. After talking about the race in Japan, the Briton said: "Typhoon Hagibis forced the organizers to delete all activities scheduled for Saturday. So we got some great Sundays with qualifying and a race on the same day. It was clear to me that this would revive the debate over the course of the racing weekend."
Therefore British emphasizes: “This is an aspect of the sport that we have been focusing on with all precision for a long time. We will include this in the rules, but only after we have obtained the opinions of all participants - fans, organizers and teams. It is quite understandable that the organizers strongly want to keep the three-day format. We have to offer something to the fans during these three days, although we can make minor changes to the schedule."
Brown continues: “It’s clear to me that Sunday, like it was at Suzuki, offers a great show. If we were to switch to such a then, it would mean that we would have to postpone the races of the rest of the series to the previous days. But after careful analysis, we came to the conclusion that the three-day format remains, we will only change slightly on Friday and not the rest, so we will continue to have qualifiers on Saturday and the race on Sunday."
The Briton is also attached to more races"However, we must be aware that due to the fact that we will have more races next year, ie 22, the burden on teams will also increase. That is why we want to change the program. We will inform the public about the details at the end of October, when the new rules of the 2021 season will be published."
