F1 rethinks the Sprint

The short races increase to six in 2023, but the mess of the grids and the sanctions makes Liberty want to turn the format around. It is not ruled out to match it to MotoGP and Sainz asks for a crazy Saturday

Short races in F1, or the Sprint, are one of the great bets of Liberty Media, owner of F1 since 2017, also crowned with obvious audience success. Tomorrow its second season closes in Brazil, with three races in 2021 and another three in 2022 and they have not yet found the formula that satisfies drivers and teams after retouching them from the first to the second year.

Firstly because of the mess that it means for the fan to know if Friday's classification, which gives pole position on Saturday, is not worth anything for Sunday since the grid is formed just as the race ends. It is still a bit shocking, and without it there are sanctions like Carlos Sainz's of five positions, things get complicated to know if it affects the short race or the long one and, therefore, he could be left without pole.

FIA and Liberty are studying a third turn of the screw for next year, in which there will also be six appointments, not yet defined, and in principle the good will be preserved, the 100 km at full throttle without boxes or stops and points like now, scoring up to eight pilots. But they want more.

The main option seems to be the one that many drivers ask for to give a real show on Saturday: that what happens there stays there, not affect the grid on Sunday. Go out with your pants off without fear of losing Sunday's appointment as well. Because if you beat yourself up by three or five points and you can come out last for that, the risk-penalty ratio always comes out negative.

For example, Carlos Sainz even contributes that these Sprints come directly from how the World Cup is going at that moment, the grid is reversed and everyone slaps each other. But the pole that was made on Friday is only valid for Sunday; Saturday is like an orgy of fight, fight and period. Liberty is seriously considering it because the 24 organizers have asked for these double races after all, and the wilder the better.

Carlos Sainz, "a separate career"

Sainz told MARCA what his ideal format would be: "A race separate from the rest of the weekend. I think that the 'qualy' on Friday has to continue to be the one that is valid for Sunday, that is, like now, that it counts for the race on Sunday, but the race on Saturday has to be separate, that it does not count for Sunday, but it does for the championship and that it be on an inverted grid of the 20 drivers of how you are doing in the World Championship, that the top 10 score but that score less than 25 points, it has to be worth less, and there we would see the two Red Bulls and the two Ferraris coming out among the last four or five with a tremendous desire to reach the top ten because if we don't arrive we won't score, but if we crash trying to come back the next day you still start on pole which is the real race. We would see a really fun sprint race there, more than now, as you try to position yourself for the race on Sunday, but there is not much to go r because it's like a first career 'stint'".

For now, the style that MotoGP has chosen for 2023 is to go for what works, where Saturday's qualifying will serve for both the short race on Saturday itself (the sprint races debut in the premier category of two wheels) and the long one. on Sunday, unlike in Superbikes, which is like F1. But it is another of the options that the championship leaders seriously value to polish and add value to these races.

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