Fernando Alonso has responded to F1 president Stefano Domenicali suggesting that races are too long for young people, stating that the sport is not the problem, society is.\u00a0<\/p>\n
F1’s president is open to the idea of more sprint races, reverse grid races and even shortening the length of a grand prix, due to him believing the sport’s younger audience has a shorter attention span.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Young people have become a key market for F1, more so since the introduction of Netflix’s Drive to Survive, which played a significant role in the championship’s growth in the last handful of years.<\/p>\n
A typical grand prix can last anywhere from 80-120 minutes, with various factors such as weather, track length and in-race incidents having a huge say on its duration.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In Alonso’s eyes, F1 does not need to change the length of its races, arguing that people are not questioning if a 90-minute football match is too long.<\/p>\n
The two-time champion believes the issue with younger people having a shorter attention span is down to society, rather than the sport.<\/p>\n
“Yeah, I don’t know,” Alonso told media in the first drivers’ press conference at Monza. “I will be on the other side, I will be in front of the TV when that happens. I don’t know, I don’t think it’s a problem with the sport, so change is probably is not needed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“But Stefano knows better than anyone. So if he thinks that it’s needed, then we are in good hands in this kind of decision with him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“But also, football matches are going to be long. When I sit in front of the TV I’m not watching the [full] 90 minutes concentrated, I go to the kitchen and go back. There is always some moments of distraction.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“And no one is talking about having 60-minute football matches or something. So it’s a problem with society on the kids, but not the sport. So change is probably not needed.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fernando Alonso has responded to F1 president Stefano Domenicali suggesting that races are too long for young people,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-135718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}