F1 is good to go to preliminary another race end of the week design in Baku as groups agree. The run race in Azerbaijan will presently see an extra passing meeting that will supplant Saturday’s FP2. Before the Australian Grand Prix, it was made clear that plans were being made to change the schedule for the upcoming Baku race, which is the first Sprint race weekend of the season.
Currently, the Sprint weekend is structured so that FP1 and qualifying take place on Friday, FP2 and the Sprint take place on Saturday, and the Grand Prix takes place on Sunday. The new plan calls for a new Sprint qualifying session to take the place of the current FP2 session on Saturday morning, while main race qualifying will take place on Friday.
The secondary objective of the proposal is to eliminate the unnecessary FP2 session on Saturday morning. At the moment, F1 teams are restricted in their ability to make modifications to their vehicles as a result of the Parc Ferme restrictions that were imposed following qualifying on Friday afternoon.
According to reports, all ten F1 team managers met on Sunday ahead of the Australian Grand Prix to discuss the possibility of changing the schedule. The new strategy calls for a new qualifying round on Saturday that will follow the same three-round elimination format.
In 2023, F1 will test a new qualifying format.
F1 has chosen to experiment with a new qualifying format over two race weekends in 2023 to combat waste. The revised system reduces the number of slick tires each driver receives from 13 to 11.
Since its inception in 2006, the current qualifying system has been a huge success, so the Emilia Romagna GP will serve as the first venue to test this new method.
Racers will have to be more careful with their tires during the qualifying rounds because two sets of tires will be taken out of the pool, introducing an unprecedented strategic element.
There are four medium, three hard, and four soft tire compounds available for use. Drivers will only be able to choose from hard tires in the first quarter, medium tires in the second quarter, and soft tires in the third.
The second location where the sport will test this new qualifying format has not yet been announced. Mario Isola, the motorsport manager for Pirelli, stated the following regarding the brand-new GPBlog F1 qualifying system:
An F1 journalist disagrees that red flags were used only in the Australian GP.
The FIA and the stewards were correct, according to F1 journalist Scott Mitchell-Malm, when they raised the red flags at the Australian Grand Prix on Sunday (April 2).
During the course of the race, the stewards decided to raise the red flag a record three times for distinct incidents. The first occurred as a result of Alexander Albon’s collision, the second as a result of Kevin Magnussen’s, and the third as a result of Alpine drivers colliding with one another. However, on The Race Podcast, many drivers and F1 fans disagreed that all red flags were required.