{"id":164161,"date":"2025-09-27T16:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T16:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/164161\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T16:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T16:51:07","slug":"sprint-races-and-reverse-grids-what-does-the-paddock-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/164161\/","title":{"rendered":"Sprint races and reverse grids: what does the paddock think?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gt-block\">In August 2025, Stefano Domenicali mentioned the prospect of introducing new sprint races with reverse starting grids, similar to the promotion formulas. Next season&#8217;s calendar only includes six sprint races like this year, but the president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autohebdof1.com\/news\/f1\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"F1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">F1<\/a> plans to organize twice as many Sprints in 2027. However, these future developments are far from unanimous in the paddock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gt-block\">ALSO READ &gt;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.autohebdof1.com\/news\/f1\/F1-announces-2026-sprints.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">F1 announces 2026 sprints<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Towards shorter races and a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In August 2025, Stefano Domenicali mentioned the prospect of introducing new sprint races with reverse starting grids, similar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,74517,372,6537,101,74518,32804,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-164161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-f1","tag-f1-2027","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports","tag-sprints","tag-stefano-domenicali","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}