Friday has one free practice followed by a sprint qualifying ‘shootout’.

The 100km race will then be held on Saturday morning before qualifying for the main Sunday grand prix.

  • narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    So having only one free practice before parc ferme no longer allowing for setup changes isn’t addressed at all with this change, right?

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    9 months ago

    I thought the reason they didn’t do this before is that if you have a bad crash during the sprint you’re then fucked for qualifying, right?

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      9 months ago

      Yes but apparently they now think that has to be taken as a risk in order to change the format

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        9 months ago

        I wonder if this will cause much less risk-taking in the sprint, or if they’ll change it back after an incident in the sprint ruins someone’s whole weekend

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          9 months ago

          It’s a good question. Though people already previously thought that drivers would take no risks in sprint, and that turned out to be false