F1 Bosses Are Already Pushing For More Sprint Races Next Year

Jeez, we’ve only just had the first Sprint race of the season and once everyone’s talking well-nigh 2023. Despite Max Verstappen snatching the win yonder from Charles Leclerc on the penultimate lap, the Imola Sprint had mixed reviews from fans and drivers alike. 

Nevertheless, F1 is once then pushing to increase the number of Sprints next season, with the driving gravity overdue the move, Ross Brawn, whereas he’d like to see the format expand to six races.

“I think they [the teams] can see the success,” F1’s managing director of motorsport said.

“I think we didn’t know quite where we were last year with the old cars, but I think they can see the way this is feeding into the new cars and the philosophy of the new cars.

“I’m optimistic that they will see the value in it, what we’re giving the fans.

“The thing you should unchangingly remember well-nigh the sprint is it gives you a unconfined Friday as well. We have qualifying on a Friday, we have three days of whoopee for the fans, and we can’t ignore that.”

If you think you’ve seen this before, you have. At the start of the year, there was an struggle to increase the number of races for this season. However, several teams who wanted a larger upkeep cap increase to imbricate the forfeit of the uneaten races obstructed the move.

Eventually, F1’s bosses backed lanugo and compromised on three races – at Imola, Austria and Brazil.

As the previous vote was so last-minute, it needed a ‘super majority’ of 28 out of 30 votes to support it, including eight of the teams (F1 and the FIA have 10 votes each, while each team has one).

However, if the issue is voted on surpassing the end of May, it only needs a ‘simple majority’ of 25 votes. Any changes to the format such as points awarded would probably need a super majority to pass at a later date.

Fortunately, the Sprints are set to be a hot topic of discussion at the F1 Commission meeting in London today. Hopefully this time, we won’t be waiting till right surpassing next season starts surpassing we know what’s happening!

Would you like to see increasingly Sprint races next year or should they be scrapped for good? Let us know in the comments.