Racing Bulls team principal Alan Permane has revealed he would be happy to see F1 introduce more sprint races going forward.<\/p>\n
Sprint races have been part of the F1 schedule since 2021, originally joining for three events per year.<\/p>\n
That figure has since doubled to six race weekends per year, and F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali has suggested the sport could look to boost the number even further going forward.<\/p>\n
McLaren team boss Andrea Stella has stated he is \u201copen\u201d to such changes in the future, a position Permane agrees with.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to give our customers what they want at the end of the day – the spectators, the people watching us,\u201d Permane told media including RacingNews365\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s where we go to first and, of course, we put our trust in Stefano and F1. They\u2019re doing a tremendous job.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWith them and through the F1 Commission, we can shape the sport. I think sprints are good fun. I’d be happy to do a few more, no problem.\u201d<\/p>\n
Domenicali has also suggested reverse grids could become an option for grand prix weekends, likely implemented through the sprint race.<\/p>\n
Pirelli’s Head of F1 Mario Isola stated the sport must be wary of balancing taking risks and avoiding implementing fresh ideas too late.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet me add that changing something when everything is going well is risky, and nobody wants to take any risk,\u201d Isola said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut if we don’t want to be late, we need to anticipate what could be the success of the future Formula 1, that is not granted.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe arrived at this point because Stefano and his organisation decided to do something that was at the beginning quite strange, unusual, and it worked well.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo now we are saying Formula 1 is a fantastic platform for all of us, but we need to continue with this bid to create something new.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Racing Bulls team principal Alan Permane has revealed he would be happy to see F1 introduce more sprint…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92952,"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-92951","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\/92951","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=92951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}