{"id":179770,"date":"2025-09-30T09:39:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T09:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/179770\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T09:39:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T09:39:04","slug":"its-not-part-of-f1s-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/179770\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s not part of F1\u2019s DNA\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charles Leclerc<\/a> believes reverse grids should not be introduced in Formula 1<\/a>, arguing they are \u201cnot part of the sport\u2019s DNA.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last month, F1 chief executive Stefano Domenicali<\/a> mooted the prospect of reverse grids being implemented in the future. Currently, all F2<\/a> and F3 events involve reverse grid races in their schedule, whereby the top-10 qualifying order is reversed for the sprint race with fewer points on offer, while all positions below the top-10 remain the same for both races.<\/p>\n

Domenicali is also looking at increasing the number of sprint events, which currently stands at six out of 24, for the 2027 season as the F1 boss looks to expand the competitiveness of the three-day product.<\/p>\n

Yet Ferrari driver Leclerc believes the current tally of sprints, representing 25% of events this year, is the correct amount and dismissed reverse grids as a realistic prospect.<\/p>\n

“My personal opinion is that I think the amount of sprint races we have at the moment is good enough and I wouldn’t want to go more than that,” Leclerc said, at the last race in Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n

“The reverse grid… I don’t know, not on a normal weekend at least.<\/p>\n

“On a sprint weekend, why not consider for the sprint race but it’s really not something that I see should be part of Formula 1’s DNA.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the way Formula 1 is at the moment is where I think it should stay and I don’t think we’ve got to reinvent anything.”<\/p>\n

\"Charles<\/p>\n

Charles Leclerc believes F1 should not introduce reverse grids (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Back in 2019, Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel were highly critical of the potential of reverse grids in F1, with Hamilton saying: \u201cThe people who propose that don\u2019t really know what they\u2019re talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Max Verstappen<\/a> has previously been critical of sprint races too, but Domenicali insists this format \u2013 which increases the number of competitive sessions over a weekend from two to four, with just one practice session \u2013 is here to stay.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that the sprint, whatever will be the right format, we need to have it,\u201d he stated in August. \u201cIt will represent the future. I think that, between six and 24, we have to do steps into the middle.\u201d<\/p>\n

F1 next heads to Singapore this weekend for round 18 of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles Leclerc believes reverse grids should not be introduced in Formula 1, arguing they are \u201cnot part of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,3025,578,576,577,41829,82,20517,77412,42804],"class_list":["post-179770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-charles-leclerc","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-reverse-grid","tag-sports","tag-sprint-race","tag-sprint-races","tag-stefano-domenicali"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}