FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem insisted that the governing physique is just not in favour of including extra races to the present 24-race F1 calendar due to issues for drivers and groups.
The present season is ready to turn out to be Method One’s longest ever schedule, with drivers and groups finishing 24 races from March to December. Method has already launched the calendar of the 2025 season which may even incorporate the identical variety of spherical.
Whereas a number of new places are believed to have an interest to hitch Method One, it doesn’t look attainable that the schedule expands even additional. FIA’s President Mohammed Ben Sulayem has additionally said that the governing physique doesn’t assist so as to add extra races to the present schedule as a consequence of logistical challenges and issues for drivers and groups.
Talking of the challenges of an excellent larger calendar, Ben Sulayem famous: “You cross a barrier the place you want two groups, we are able to’t have [more].
“Logistically, then I’ve to have two groups. Can the drivers take it? I simply wish to know. Let’s simply be wise and logical about it. Can the drivers take it bodily and mentally? This can be a query I’ll ask the drivers. And what in regards to the groups?”
“As for the FIA, we can’t do it with this one group. We have now to have a rotation of two groups on the subject of the workers on the bottom.”
Whereas Liberty Media has the ultimate say in defining the calendar and making offers with the promoters, Ben Sulayem has revealed that the Business Rights’ Holder can be conscious of the hazard that extra races would pose.
“They by no means got here again and mentioned: ‘Oh, we want extra.’ No manner they did. What they’re after is high quality and that’s why we have now this good relationship with them.”
“I imply, I cannot cease [them] to go to 25, as a result of it’s their proper, OK? [In the end] it’s as much as them. However they’re those who don’t wish to add [more races at the moment]. As a result of they know that it turns into [a matter] of fatigue then,” Sulayem is quoted as saying by motorsport.com.
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