The Formula 1 must put a stop to its rapid growth and avoid the temptation to add more races to their calendar, two team managers told the AFP.
The boss of the haas team, Guenther Steiner, warned that the category You are in danger of “falling off a cliff” if it does not first consolidate the current period of expansion at the global level.
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The Formula 1 calendar will be expanded to 24 races next season. Three of these tests will be held in the United States, with the novelty of the Las Vegas (Nevada) circuit, while the races in China and Qatar will return after brief absences.
“I think we need stabilization. The amount of races… there is no need to do more but stabilize where we are now”, Steiner said in an interview. “twenty four races is enough right now, in my opinion.”
The director of the team williamsJost Capito, coincides with this position on the Formula 1 calendar, which this year still has two grand prix ahead (Brazil and Abu Dhabi) with the drivers’ and constructors’ titles already in the hands of Max Verstappen and Red Bull.
“With 22 races this year and 24 next year, it’s a big change. I think 24 is a lot for teams”, said Capito to the AFP. “When you look back now at the last few races you see that the teams are getting tiredexhausting and thinking about the end of the season ”.
“I don’t know if we lose the audience, (but) Logistics and everything get very complicated for the teams”, he stressed. “I think 24 is doable and when this is established then you have to judge whether you can do 25 or 26.”
Steiner, for his part, acknowledged that the Formula 1 must protect the boom following its acquisition by the American company Liberty Media and the success of the series Netflix “Drive to Survive”.
“In the last four or five years, since Liberty took over the sport, there have been a lot of changes and all of them have been good, but I think at some point we can’t just keep growing“, said.
On the side of Formula 1, its director, Stefano Domenicali, does not believe that this debate is necessary now.
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“We don’t have to slow down. I think in the United States we are only scratching the surface of what we can do. We have to focus on future growth,” he told the AFP Domenicali who, like Steiner and Capito, was in Las Vegas to promote the new Grand Prix.
“A couple of years ago, people were saying that F1 was on the decline., but I am very happy that this is not the case, ”he recalled. “Twenty-four races is a lot. They could be less. They could be more. But that is what we, as a business, are ready to propose to the fans.” (D)
Source: Eluniverso
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