Capito warns F1 not to lose purity for ’show‘

Sep.18 (GMM) Former Williams boss Jost Capito has urged System 1 to not go too far with plans so as to add extra entertainment-driven components.

With Liberty Media pushing for extra dash occasions past 2026 – and even floating concepts like shorter grands prix or reversed grids – Capito instructed Sky Deutschland the game should shield its core id.

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“I feel the game is in an excellent place. And it’s important to watch out with additional developments,” he mentioned.

“It’s really one of many final motorsports the place there’s no stability of efficiency, however quite the place the perfect wins and the perfect isn’t held again. For me, that’s nonetheless pure motorsport. And that should be preserved in F1 as nicely.”

Capito admitted a restricted experiment with reversed-grid sprints might be price contemplating. “We might maybe speak about a reverse grid there. Whether or not it’s a whole reverse grid stays to be seen,” he mentioned.

However he insisted the essence of F1 should stay untouched. “If the quickest driver wins each race, then he wins each race. That’s how it’s. And I feel that’s what the followers need.

“The followers wish to see the perfect win, not one thing synthetic that anybody can win only for advertising causes.”

McLaren CEO Zak Brown additionally weighed in on the identical topic, telling La Gazzetta dello Sport that F1 should strike a cautious stability between sport and present.

“I’ve at all times been a bit of confused by the truth that some individuals don’t see the 2 as one,” mentioned the American. “Something you purchase a ticket to and sit within the stands to observe is leisure, whether or not it’s a film, fireworks, a rock live performance, or a F1 grand prix.”

However he agreed there are limits. “Like bringing out a contrived security automobile to unite the sector – I’m not into that,” mentioned Brown.

“I don’t need something that takes away from the worth of the game. However leisure doesn’t do this if it respects the sporting a part of what we do.”