Reacting to the 2027 F1 calendar - including TEN sprints
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What is the 2027 F1 calendar and which tracks are new?
Hello everybody and welcome To the P1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. No days off is what I will say to this. We are imminently heading to go and interview Max Verstappen. And F1 went bombshell, boom, here's your F1 sprints, here's your calendar. Why don't you go and talk about it, Matt and Tommy? They didn't say that. They don't even really speak to us, but Tommy, how are you?
I'm good. Yeah, glad to finally see what the the calendar is all about, see what's new, what's changed. And normally the calendar can feel quite stale when it drops in terms of just like there's not really much intrigue and similar races. Maybe look at a few uh what the sprint races have. There's a lot to dive into on this one. Uh it is certainly caused some opinions for sure, including A lot from us, I imagine.
Yeah, well otherwise it wouldn't be a very good podcast, would it? So yeah, lots of things to get into. Um first and foremost, ten Formula One sprints have been announced. We have uh the twenty-four races for next year, fingers crossed. And let me firstly let you know of the sprint races. So they are as follows: Bahrain, Australia, Japan, Canada, Monaco. Great Britain, Italy, Brazil, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi. And that also with the Formula One calendar part, including two new Formula One races in Portomau and Turkey. First thoughts, Tommy.
First thoughts. Uh there's s first thoughts that there's so much to unpack there. The added sprints thought we were gonna go for twelve, but we've gone for ten. Obviously the big one that stands out really is Monaco that that we're gonna dive into. I think that is no surprise that's been the most kind of talk biggest talking point from from the whole calendar drop, I think, and unsurprisingly.
Unsurprisingly indeed, uh and worth mentioning. So we've never had sprints in Bahrain, Australia, Japan, Monaco, and Abu Dhabi. I laugh every time I read that. And then we're losing the sprints from this year to next from China, Miami, Austria and Singapore. So let's get into the first question, shall we? Dive right into this. P1 Patriot member the AM pain is over. Is this too many sprints? Yeah. I feel like we had this question last time they upped the sprints. Frank thinks that it's far too many sprints as he is barking in the background. For me, yes, it was too many before, it's even more now. And uh my sentiments have not changed around sprint races. I don't mind them occasionally, but this is exactly where we predicted Formula One were going to go, and that is adding more and more and more and and and basically just sort of softening the blow by like you can have one extra here or two extra.
Extra there. Soon we'll have half the season, then it will be two thirds, and who knows where the traditional Formula One weekend is going. I appreciate that people don't like practice sessions. For me, I quite like them. I quite like the build-up to the main event on the Sunday. Don't get me wrong, two lights outs are great, having a sprint race and a main race. I think I love sprint weekends the most when it's at a track that makes sense. sense for a sprint race. The fact that they'll only have an hour worth of data from practice to then go straight into it. I enjoy that. But also there are tracks that we will go into that that just are either forced sprint races or just don't make sense.
I don't mind sprints. I still think I'll say this every time that we need to have a change of format. The thing I don't like about sprints is is the fact that qualifying precedes it the sprint race immediately and Formula One is so fast moving, you're only as good as your last race, everything's forgotten as soon as we get into another race. And if they care this much about sprints that they want to do ten of them, maybe even more eventually. why y no, this this format to me still doesn't make sense. But I don't mind having more sprint races. I think tens are a good number. I still think it's odd when I look at the calendar uh and this graphic that Formula One have posted where it's very heavily stacked on sprints at the start of the season.
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