Stefano Domenicali has rejected issues over learn how to evolve F1’s dash race format – and is “” in reversing the grid.
This season the scheduling of dash weekends at F1 rounds has been tweaked however even bolder adjustments may very well be across the nook.
A idea to ‘reverse the grid’ intrigues the System 1 CEO.
“There are particular subjects which are at all times fairly debatable,” Domenicali advised Motorsport.
“We are able to actually as soon as once more focus on if there may be the necessity to reverse the grid, or half of the grid like what F2 and F3 are doing.
“So these are at all times issues to maintain the thoughts alive, if I could say, with the intent to maintain one thing at all times attention-grabbing.
“Personally, I’d say, why not? It is a number of motion. It’s overtaking. You are preventing for factors?
“Some individuals can say, ‘Oh, it’s a faux manner of racing.’
“Faux? There may be nothing faux associated to what you imagine is the appropriate format to supply nice motion. So I’d have an interest to debate that once more. Sure.”
Six rounds this season will characteristic a dash race on a Saturday, and the accompanying dash qualifying.
In contrast MotoGP, which F1 homeowners Liberty Media purchased this yr, contains a dash race at each spherical, on the Saturday earlier than the Sunday grand prix.
Domenicali defined that his plan to boost an F1 weekend is so as to add a aggressive ingredient to each session, relatively than simply run three apply hours.
“My dream will probably be: each time that you simply go on the monitor, there’s something to combat for,” he added.
Reversing the grid, nonetheless, represents a fancy resolution as a result of it features a rule change to forestall F1 drivers deliberately qualifying final, to line up in pole place.
F1 Academy at the moment makes use of {a partially} reversed grid. In Race 2 of their three-race spherical, the highest eight vehicles are reordered in reverse. Much less factors are awarded for this race than the opposite two.
However drivers stay incentivised to qualify in pole place as a result of they preserve the same old order for Race 1 and three.
