F1 has explored new Grand Prix formats in recent years to increase the excitement on the track. They did this by introducing weekends with a sprint race every Saturday, then they changed that format to have more overtaking, and this year the classifications were also tested with obligation to use the hard rubber in Q1, the medium rubber in Q2 and the soft rubber in Q3. However, these experimental models are still not convincing to many and red bull It’s still superior to races, both long and short, and there’s not much room for surprises.
so, Carlos Sainz revealed on the ‘P1 with Matt and Tommy’ podcast that Several drivers have asked F1 to make a change for Saturday’s sprint races With this, it will not only end the massive dominance of Red Bull for short races, but also give more opportunities to all teams to score good points and achieve positions that are currently unthinkable for some theirs. Sainz suggests that the starting grids for Saturday’s short races (sprint races) be reversed using the F1 World Championship positions as a reference.
The idea of Carlos and supported by other pilots is the one In a sprint weekend, the World Championship leader will start from last position in Saturday’s short race (the second, from penultimate, and so on, in reverse) and the result of the short race will not affect Sunday’s grid. So, on Sunday, regardless of what happens in Saturday’s race, the grid positions obtained by the drivers in qualifying on Friday will be retained.
In this way, Carlos will eliminate the ‘shoot out’ sprint classification which is tested this year on the Saturday morning of the sprint weekend, which now determines the grid order for the short races.
“I have an idea that I will implement in the sprint weekend: an inverted grid with the classification order of the World Championship. You just have to think that Max Verstappen will start last, the Ferraris will start 13th or 14… in total. grid “it’s closer”said the man from Madrid.
“Max, starting 20th, can reach the top-10 or even the top-5. And those who start in 8th place, will achieve their points only of the year. I will consider that idea because it can be awesome and not affect the rest of the weekend”, added
Few drivers have made this proposal in F1
“You have a main race that everyone values, everyone wants to win that race (on Sunday), but there will be another race on Saturday that you can also talk about.”commented Carlos Sainz, revealing that several pilots made this proposal with Carlos. “We were some drivers who asked for it, who said: ‘If you really want to make the sprint race weekend interesting, you can do something else and… why not do it?’.
It remains to be seen if F1 considers the idea of Carlos Sainz and other drivers and proposes some experimental weekends with this change for future sprint races.
Source: La Verdad
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