Six locations will host sprint races in 2023, Formula 1 has confirmed. The sport will continue to feature sprint weekends, with the starting lineup for the Grand Prix being decided to make a one hundred km racing distance shorter on Sunday. It has been organized 3 times a year since the new racing system was first created a year ago.
The new schedule
Sprint events are scheduled for next year as part of F1’s efforts to broaden the concept. Only Austria and Brazil have ever organized a competition among the 6 other countries. By the end of the week, the next season will resemble those in 2022.
The fastest drivers earn the weekend’s pole position during qualifying, which happens on Friday. The meeting that establishes the sprint race starting grid typically covers a region of 100 km long in a race that lasts around 30 minutes.
A sliding scale with 8 points for victory will be used to determine the top eight drivers’ point totals. Despite starting on the front row of the grid, the fundamental issue of race-winning drivers not counting for road state in the Grand Prix continues to be a complicated and inconvenient system.
The promotion of the new system
Race promoters and broadcasters support the state because it has been a huge occurrence for F1 in its first 2 years, and they like the extra competition it provides every Friday.
As it replaces the less appealing second practice session, F1 claims that qualifying on Friday has increased sales and spectators. Fans’ responses, nonetheless, were generally not very positive. Drivers tended to avoid taking chances because they didn’t want to endanger the competition at the end of the week.
Many people, including drivers, enjoy the challenge of testing under a time limit. To help drivers be more competitive, F1 is stated to wish to modify the competition’s state even further, turning the feeling of a wholly independent race and having its specific testing stage that is not yet adopted, though.
But it will be in the future. Following a review of potential short-format racing-friendly courses, the new site was chosen. In order for sprints to be successful, F1 has stressed the demand for progressing changes, intense competition, and high-velocity areas.
