Nelson Valkenburg

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967 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 5d ago

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The Race F1 Podcast · Will a Monaco sprint race work? Our reaction to shock 2027 F1 calendar · 16 Sep 2026 podcast

That doesn't work.

And probably the Friday tickets a little bit more expensive.

Um I'm not opposed to it.

Um I think for from a T V standpoint I think it works well for us uh because people will be so hungry to see competition.

Uh so it'll be a day earlier.

Uh you have to understand from a T V standpoint the Friday is quite difficult to sell.

We know that our Friday audience is a very hardcore motorsport audience and then

By the day you broaden the appeal.

F one broadens the appeal and brings in the newer audiences, the maybe less hardcore people that would find a TV set to watch FP one.

But we also know that in Bahrain people are so hungry come the new season to see all the new cars and know what the situation is, who's quick and who isn't that I think you can expect massive viewership for for a Friday's

sprint qualifying just because there's that hunger.

It also also is at a quite useful time in the in during the day.

So um I think from a T V perspective it works really well but it gives the team s so much to do during the test days because they need to hit the ground running during test days because you have only one free practice for the first weekend.

So extracting the maximum out

And that that can bring up some surprises or give us a bit of a jumble in the midfield compared to the rest of the season as we get properly going.

So yeah, there's a there will be many narratives, that's for sure.

And um uh we use FP one a lot or F one teams use them for yeah, evaluating d young drivers and and getting those sessions in.

So if we go to Universal Sprints that's a that's a thing of the past.

I do understand where George and and in most of uh V Max Verstappen's comments where they're coming from, because if your ultimate aim is to be get the most out of a car and yourself on a

on a Sunday and you say this is a world championship and I want everything to be geared to that we'd have more testing.

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