F1 considering ‘Grand Slam’ idea for Sprint races in 2024
F1 considering ‘Grand Slam’ idea for Sprint races in 2024
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I know everyone likes to shit on sprints, but I'm ok with the FIA experimenting if only to avoid things getting stale. My suggestion would be to run the sprint in reverse qualifying order so even back markers get to fight for some points and you could have a ton of overtakes.
One of the biggest issues with the sprints is that many of the potential good formats are automatically off the table. We won't get something fun like reverse grids anytime soon.
At the moment it's all fairly new and constantly changing but at the end of the day it's nothing unique. It's just a shorter race.
What would stop the fastest teams from doing their utmost best to qualifying last, thus getting the wanted top spot in sprint and sail away with the victory? Any metric used by FIA to identify or mitigate 'slowness' is going to be a shit-show as teams can offer up valid excuses, like 'this is not an exact science, we just had bad luck'
And then we have the biggest issue with this: this is a high performance sport, being first is literally the point. And you punish that by dropping these down the grid? You will find no driver in favour of this I would think.
I assume he meant reverse grid for sprint but normal grid for race - so you still want to qualify first to have the best chance in the race where there are more points up for grabs.
I like this, drop the sprint shootout. 1 quali, reverse sprint normal race
It would give Perez something to win each race.