The 2027 Components 1 season may see a major improve within the variety of dash races on the schedule.
The F1 Fee is wanting into doubling the variety of dash occasions from six to 12. That will imply as many as half the rounds on the calendar would turn into dash weekends.
This yr’s occasions in Shanghai, Miami, Montreal, Silverstone, Zandvoort and Singapore will all function the additional, one-third grand prix distance races. Different venues which have beforehand held dash races embody the Purple Bull Ring, Spa-Francorchamps, Monza, Baku, Circuit of the Americas, Interlagos and Losail.
F1 launched the dash race format in 2021 and the collection claims they’re extremely well-liked. Final month’s F1 Fee assertion famous “there have been discussions round the opportunity of rising the dash occasions as much as 12 primarily based on the demand for dash [races] from followers and promoters.”
Nevertheless response to dash races from followers seems to be far much less emphatic than F1’s characterisation. Dash races are inclined to obtain a lot decrease scores from our readers than grands prix. Final yr the highest 12 races voted by our readers had been all grands prix, whereas three of the underside 5 had been dash races.
Ought to F1 preserve the religion with the dash race format and add extra of them? Or, just like the bonus level for quickest lap and two-pit cease races in Monaco, is that this one other gimmick which has failed and needs to be scrapped?
I say
There may be ample proof now which exhibits that the thought of racing Components 1 vehicles for one-third of a grand prix distance doesn’t produce an thrilling contest in its personal proper. A few of final yr’s dash races had been nearly totally bereft of place adjustments: in Losail, all the highest 16 vehicles ran in the identical order from begin to end save for a single place swap.
If something, dash races seem like doubly destructive. As they offer groups the chance to see how their vehicles carry out over a consultant race stint, it removes a number of unknowns forward of the grand prix, making the primary occasion extra predictable.
I see dash races as a lose-lose proposition. To not point out the actual fact including extra of them will take extra helpful follow time away which is very disadvantageous to new drivers. So as a substitute of including six, I’d deduct six and run the traditional grand prix format each weekend.
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