CALENDAR TO BE REJIGGED TO HELP GREEN CREDENTIALS
Formula 1 chiefs are aiming to reorganise the calendar to help the sport cut down on its travel, thus cutting down its environmental impact.
Next year’s schedule features 24 races and there are several anomalies: the Azerbaijan Grand Prix is back-to-back with Miami, some 6800 miles apart.
The penultimate race is in Las Vegas before the finale a week later in Abu Dhabi, which is a distance of 8200 miles.
Formula 1 sporting director Steve Nielsen said: “We’re working on regionalising the calendar. We have a future calendar, I won’t tell you from which year, but we have a future sort of perfect calendar, within some years down the line.
“And we’re iterating gradually towards that each year, moving an event here or there by a week. So there’s a strategy to get from where we are now, which we’re not happy with, to a much happier place in a few years’ time.
It’s a gradual process.”
Nielsen explained that some historical arrangements with race promoters stood in the way, while there were also still some races displaced as a repercussion of the Covid pandemic.