Forward of the primary Dash of the season, Haas boss, Guenther Steiner believes that in time half the races on the calendar will function the ‘mini races’.
Per week forward of the Baku weekend, the game has but to formally announce a revised format which can doubtless see Saturday given over fully to Sprints, with qualifying within the morning and the race later within the day.
Friday would see one follow session within the morning, whereas the afternoon session could be given over for qualifying for Sunday’s Grand Prix.
As will be seen with the continuing predilection for restarts, F1 realises that the beginning of races, together with qualifying, are the 2 most important highlights of the weekend, consequently, what higher approach of attracting the followers and sponsors than doubling the variety of each.
With MotoGP having launched Sprints at each spherical, Steiner believes that growing the variety of Dash occasions in F1 from the present six is the best way ahead.
“I do not know if we are going to do it each race weekend,” he advised Reuters. “Possibly do just a few extra or perhaps do half of the calendar. The F1 promoter will know what to do.
“In the meanwhile there may be extra demand for races (than slots obtainable) so how will you get extra races in, extra competitors, extra racing if we can’t do greater than 24 occasions… simply make the occasion double depend.”
Nevertheless, the Haas boss admits that at some tracks there might be a necessity for greater than the one follow session that might be obtainable in Baku.
“The FP3 session on Saturday morning grew to become virtually nugatory as a result of no one was watching it, the groups could not do any adjustments on the automotive besides attempting the tyre out for the race so there was no actual curiosity,” he stated. “So I believe that may be a good addition to the weekend to place a dash qualifying in.
“It’s a must to see the way it works with the followers, in the event that they prefer it, how the numbers come again after which determine what to do as the subsequent step. However in the intervening time I assist very a lot the dash qualifying.”
