Amid talks in regards to the potential improve within the variety of dash races, Mercedes driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli has admitted that dash format makes life for rookie drivers a bit harder, contemplating they are going to have much less time in apply to be taught and experiment.
In the course of the 2021 Method One World Championship, Method One trialed a “dash qualifying” system at three Grands Prix—Nice Britain, Italy, and São Paulo—during which the grid for the race on Sunday was decided by a 100 km dash on Saturday.
The dash weekends have remained in Method One because the introduction again in 2021. In reality, the variety of dash weekend throughout a season has risen from three to 6, and the principles concerning the schedule and the parc ferme circumstances have been amended on a number of events, as effectively.
In line with the present guidelines, Dash Qualifying takes place on Friday following Free Apply 1, with the Dash and Grand Prix Qualifying on Saturday, earlier than the weekend culminates with the Grand Prix on Sunday.
Amid talks in regards to the potential improve within the variety of dash races, Mercedes driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli has admitted that dash format makes life for rookie drivers a bit harder contemplating they are going to have much less time in apply to be taught and experiment.
“I believe yeah. I imply, it clearly will depend on the observe. If it’s a brand new observe, it’s a bit harder for rookies as a result of they should rise up to hurry — like we needed to do in a few events this yr, similar to China, Miami, and Austin as effectively with Dash.
“So typically it’s robust. However you probably have the arrogance, you’re capable of construct up into the session and discover your rhythm fairly fast. In comparison with extra skilled drivers, it may be a little bit of a drawback since you don’t know the element of the observe, the place you can also make more often than not and the place you’ll be able to lose probably the most.
“However general, in the event you’re capable of rise up to hurry rapidly, and particularly you probably have the arrogance, you’ll be able to nonetheless ship a superb outcome even with one apply.
Alpine driver Franco Colapinto echoed Antonelli’s phrases, albeit he mentioned that he already achieved nice outcomes on a dash weekend when he was restricted to just one apply session.
“I believe we’re used to 2 weekends — it’s extremely brief, very small quantity of laps earlier than quali — and you’ll want to be very fast on high of it. It’s all the time tough whenever you don’t know the observe.
“I had that final yr. I believe Austin and Qatar had been Sprints. I didn’t know the observe, so it’s tough, however I nonetheless had a superb outcome there in Dash Quali in Austin. So it’s not — I believe in the event you prep effectively these days, the simulator additionally helps loads. So yeah, in the event you will be on high of it and do a superb prep, it actually helps. We’re used to not having lots of laps in apply, so it’s not too unhealthy, I believe.”
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