24 Race Season with a rotation of circuits says Chase Carey
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Sounds good to me. In my opinion F1 cannot claim to be the pinnacle of motor sport when it doesn't visit circuits like Portimao.
https://www.grandprix247.com/2020/11/20/carey-f1-m...
https://www.grandprix247.com/2020/11/20/carey-f1-m...
carinaman said:
Sounds good to me. In my opinion F1 cannot claim to be the pinnacle of motor sport when it doesn't visit circuits like Portimao.
https://www.grandprix247.com/2020/11/20/carey-f1-m...
Does sound as if the F1 higher-ups are at least listening to the feedback, where we revisited some great old circuits this year for some great races, but cant go back under the F1 financial model - where a promoter needs to put $20m up front and can only make it back from ticket sales. https://www.grandprix247.com/2020/11/20/carey-f1-m...
A couple of ‘joker’ races, rotating each year around the classic tracks, would be brilliant for F1, as I guess the TV audiences have shown in 2020.
Well done Chase and F1.
Sandpit Steve said:
carinaman said:
Sounds good to me. In my opinion F1 cannot claim to be the pinnacle of motor sport when it doesn't visit circuits like Portimao.
https://www.grandprix247.com/2020/11/20/carey-f1-m...
Does sound as if the F1 higher-ups are at least listening to the feedback, where we revisited some great old circuits this year for some great races, but cant go back under the F1 financial model - where a promoter needs to put $20m up front and can only make it back from ticket sales. https://www.grandprix247.com/2020/11/20/carey-f1-m...
A couple of ‘joker’ races, rotating each year around the classic tracks, would be brilliant for F1, as I guess the TV audiences have shown in 2020.
Well done Chase and F1.
I do hope they end up with at least a couple of oddball/new circuits each year. It helps it feel more like a world tour which I think is good for the sport.
LucyP said:
Imagine the traffic chaos at the first 2! No overtaking would be possible at Cadwell. You wouldn't get 2 F1 cars side by side without exceeding track limits!
Aye but imagine seeing F1 cars try to deal with the mountain, or have to break traction to deal with the hairpin. Edited by LucyP on Friday 20th November 12:55
Imagine Grosjean at Duffers dip.
Imagine 2 side by side at the Goose Neck
It'd be utter carnage. It'd be class!
Pachydermus said:
More is not necessarily better. Who has time to watch 24 races?
This is true, especially if they are at poor circuits. Give me 12-16 races at awesome circuits and I'd be happy.With the budget cap coming in too, 24 races will put huge pressure on F1 team personnel and their families. I'd imagine it will make it a less appealing place for people to work with all that travelling, but money talks I guess.
TheDeuce said:
Pachydermus said:
More is not necessarily better. Who has time to watch 24 races?
More variety is better. And surely more races than you have time for is better than less?The great thing about this season was that, with 17 races, you would look forward to the next one. Like you would in 1999 when there were what, 17/18 races on the calendar? It meant you had a fortnight between races and you had something to look forward to.
It's a ridiculous amount of races, think of the environment, that amount of shopping or freight is ludicrous. The fact you will have to have to amounts of staff at some places, it's beyond crazy I am afraid.
If ever this sport has disappeared so far up its own behind it is in this desperate search for money, it truly is desperate.
Going to Saudi was enough, but this now.
Records from years ago mean nothing now other than perhaps the number of titles which you have to congratulate Lewis on.
If ever this sport has disappeared so far up its own behind it is in this desperate search for money, it truly is desperate.
Going to Saudi was enough, but this now.
Records from years ago mean nothing now other than perhaps the number of titles which you have to congratulate Lewis on.
I think what we'll realistically see is a variety of triple headers. However, even if we had triple headers from the start with 2 weekends off between them, we'd see 24 races over something like 38 weekends. If the Friday is dropped (which I can't see happening for the historic tracks) it's still a mammoth task.
How many people are queueing up for a job in F1? More than enough to make the job even more intensive and not run out of willing employees desperate to take it on.
The logistics angle will have been thought about, along with the cost implications. Naturally F1 is on a cost cutting drive right now so those with all the figures and facts in front of them (not us..) must consider it doable without the teams breaking the bank.
All this stuff will have happened behind the scenes and been discussed at lengths, the teams will have been consulted and must have known this was the plan when they all signed the new agreement - otherwise they would have signed on the condition races were capped at the current level. Their lawyers aren't going to leave wide open the door for Liberty to snatch the signed agreements off the table and immediately announce extra race weekends that they knew nothing about!
The logistics angle will have been thought about, along with the cost implications. Naturally F1 is on a cost cutting drive right now so those with all the figures and facts in front of them (not us..) must consider it doable without the teams breaking the bank.
All this stuff will have happened behind the scenes and been discussed at lengths, the teams will have been consulted and must have known this was the plan when they all signed the new agreement - otherwise they would have signed on the condition races were capped at the current level. Their lawyers aren't going to leave wide open the door for Liberty to snatch the signed agreements off the table and immediately announce extra race weekends that they knew nothing about!
24 weekends, mostly bang in the middle of the day is simply too much for me to even attempt to follow live. That's nearly half of all the weekends in a year cut apart by racing.
I love the early morning races and the evening ones in the Americas, but if anything more races means I'm increasingly likely to move away from Sky (despite it in theory being better value) and embrace extended highlights at a time that suits.
I now watch football exclusively via 3 minute official highlights uploaded to YouTube (often very quickly after a match) and I've really got used to that now, never thought F1 could begin to head in that direction.
I love the early morning races and the evening ones in the Americas, but if anything more races means I'm increasingly likely to move away from Sky (despite it in theory being better value) and embrace extended highlights at a time that suits.
I now watch football exclusively via 3 minute official highlights uploaded to YouTube (often very quickly after a match) and I've really got used to that now, never thought F1 could begin to head in that direction.
Edited by ch37 on Friday 20th November 21:10
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