2024 F1 General Discussion Thread

This summer break could really do with being a week shorter…

Yeah triple headers are probably a nightmare for the teams and these long 3-4 week breaks (obviously the summer break is standard) are a killer for the fans, surely there’s somewhere they could meet in the middle.

Less triple headers, more races every 2nd week would be my choice.

That's such a good idea. Mini championships. So good.

Canada randomly thrown in between Monaco and Spain is utter madness. Why not pair it with Miami and just have a proper "the Americas" swing

Canada, Miami and Austin could run a triple header before the Europe races, then later in the year do the Mexico, Vegas and Brazil races.

In this day and age, sustainability should dictate the format, along with common sense!

Ah, it gets complicated when you factor in shipping things to far-away races vs flying them. So you can drive stuff to Monaco for this weekend but ship other things to canada for next weekend.

But the real sustainability issue with F1 is fans travelling to attend races, not cars on track or getting equipment to tracks. Best not pull that thread...

Try To sell that to F1 fans. They'd hate it. They hate the idea is sprint races, safety equipment like the halo etc. They hate charge, no matter how good it might be … until it's become established, and then they'd hate changing away from it.

F1 fans are a conservative bunch.

I think a mini championship would be a brilliant idea. I did not like Sprint races when thet first came in mostly because if the way it was done but the way its done now is not too bad. I still think they are a gimic though and that no one will care or remember who one each sprint race in 2024 ten years from now.

we have had some decent pairings (sometimes more than 2)

Bahrain - Saudi

Aus - Japan - China

Miami - Italy - Monaco - Canada - Spain - Austria, As someone mentioned for the sake of expense and sustainability, Miami Canada should have been put together.

Britain - Hungary - Belgium

Italy - Baku - Singapore… ???

USA - Mexico - Brazil - Las Vegas

Qatar - Abu Dhabi

Didnt expect a Sam, from wendover productions, video.

You wouldn't need all 5 setups in one continent. For example, you could ship 2 over to the America. First two in Montreal and Las Vegas. The logistics for one setup would be:

• Montreal → Texas → Mexico
• Las Vegas → Miami→ Brazil

With a race order being:

• Montreal → Vegas → (week off) → Texas → Miami → (week off) → Mexico → Brazil

That would be something like, "the Americas" leg. You could easily do one in Europe and the middle east. It would be almost impossible in Asia/Australia tho.

I'd imagine the main logistical issue is track time. F1 can't dictate when Vegas is shut down or when a race track is to be used as other things happen there. It is complicated but I do think the calendar does need to be heavily revised.

I read before that when Bonnington saw what young kimi was doing in the car, he decided to stay. Don't know how true that is.

I had read a while ago that it was an anti poach clause in Hamiltons Merc contract. When leaving he couldn't bring staff with him or something.

Be odd for Ferrari to put it in. They can just say "no". Be an odd thing for Merc to put in Bonos contract. I'm not sure how they word word that.

Ah, maybe that's what it was, more plausible