During the two Friday practice sessions points will be awarded and a reverse grid structure will see a Sprint race on Saturday morning. The total number of sets of tyres available to each driver over the weekend will be cut from 13 to 11.ĭominicali is now championing a new format for the Formula One weekends.
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In revised regulations published by the FIA, drivers will be forced to use the hard tyre in Q1, the medium tyre in Q2 and the soft tyre in Q3. In fact changes to qualifying have been agreed for 2023. Lewis Hamilton claimed his pole in Melbourne with 4 minutes of the session remaining. Some of these have been less than successful than others, the latest being the ill fated ‘elimination’ qualification trialed at the 2016 Australian and Bahrain GP’sĭesigned to increase excitement and jeopardy together with more on track action, this format did completely the opposite. The purists always turn up their noses, but F1 has changed the way of qualifying dozens of times over the years.” Partly because points were awarded towards the drivers’ and constructors’ championships and partly because having qualifying on Friday in place of FP2 rendered the Saturday morning practice session almost redundant.ĭominicali is adamant that ongoing change within F1 is equired.īecause you have to try, there are always plenty of reasons not to do so.”
Sprint races were introduced in 2021, but the purists didn’t like them. Having replaced the original American officials appointed at the take over from Ecclestone with the likes of Ross Brawn and Dominicali, Liberty Media have stacked the deck in their favour to bring about change. Speaking to Italian publication Corriere Della Serra, ex Ferrari boss and F1 CEO, Stefano Dominicali, takes a swipe at F1 purists who resist change. A larger calendar has been agreed, new circuits introduced and race promoters are selling out months before each GP weekend. Like it or not the advent of liberty Media acquiring the rights to Formula One is changing the sport forever.
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