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PICTURES @mattkewF1 facebook.com/gpracingonline A STEP TOO FAR WITH THE SPRINT FORMAT In this lucrative Liberty Media-owned era for Formula 1, it’s easier to foresee every round featuring a sprint race sooner than the format being scrapped altogether. Money talks, so a 57% boost to the TV audience curiously tuning in to watch a new qualifying shootout for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix versus 2022 means the revised schedule is here to stay. As such it’s a more efficient use of energy to seek to optimise the latest restructure instead of futilely lamenting its very existence. That begins with urging the FIA to close the silly loophole for the Saturday sprint qualifying that meant those who burned through their new tyre allocation come the end of Q2 could not then enter Q3. While the format alterations were…

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GP Racing UK (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2023

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