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A sprint contention was past held earlier past year's Sao Paulo Grand Prix successful November, with George Russell winning, Carlos Sainz 2nd and Lewis Hamilton thirdFormula 1 is to present a caller format for 'sprint' races, starting astatine this weekend's Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
The 'sprint' - a shorter contention held connected Saturday - has been made autarkic of the expansive prix and volition person its ain qualifying session, known arsenic the 'sprint shootout'.
Qualifying to acceptable the grid for the main Grand Prix volition beryllium held connected Friday.
There volition past beryllium a shorter qualifying session, to the aforesaid knockout format, connected Saturday to acceptable the sprint grid.
The 'sprint' qualifying volition person 3 sessions, with the slowest 5 cars eliminated astatine the extremity of the archetypal two, but the sessions volition beryllium chopped to conscionable 12, 10 and 8 minutes. The 3 sessions successful a modular qualifying tally for 18, 15 and 12 minutes, respectively.
While tyre usage successful a modular qualifying league is free, it volition beryllium mandated by the rules for the sprint contention qualifying - teams volition person to usage caller tyres successful each session: the 'medium' compound successful the archetypal 2 and 'soft' successful the last top-10 contest.
The caller format was agreed unanimously connected Tuesday astatine a gathering of the F1 Commission - a rule-forming assemblage that consists of governing assemblage the FIA, commercialized rights holder F1 and the teams - earlier being rubberstamped by legislative assemblage the FIA satellite council.
The thought down the changes is to present much jeopardy into the 'sprint' by encouraging drivers to instrumentality much risks.
The erstwhile format for sprint weekends, which were introduced successful 2021, had the Friday qualifying league mounting the grid for the sprint and the effect of the sprint establishing the grid for the main expansive prix.
That meant drivers were reluctant to instrumentality chances successful the sprint due to the fact that immoderate errors oregon accidents would disproportionately harm their chances successful the expansive prix.
It remains to beryllium seen whether the caller format makes immoderate important difference, arsenic it remains the lawsuit that the constituent rewards for the sprint are overmuch little than for the expansive prix.
As before, the apical 8 finishers successful the sprint volition people points, from 8 for archetypal spot down to 1 for eighth.
The caller format, which volition beryllium utilized astatine each six of the sprint weekends this season, besides has the payment of eliminating a Saturday signifier league successful which teams ran lone with contention substance loads and arsenic a effect was a meaningless spectacle for the audience.
This league has been replaced by the caller qualifying league for the sprint event.
It was besides agreed to summation the permitted fig of circumstantial motor components this play from 3 to four.
The components successful question are the interior combustion engine, turbo-charger and the MGU-K and MGU-H, the 2 parts of the hybrid strategy that retrieve energy.
The determination is simply a boost for Ferrari and Mercedes, some of whom person drivers connected their 2nd examples of immoderate of these components aft conscionable 3 races of the season, and are frankincense present further from suffering grid penalties for excessive parts usage than they were.
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