Former Alpine and Aston Martin group boss, Otmar Szafnauer believes the game may deal with as much as 30 races a season.
“For me, if you happen to plan it proper, I believe between 25 and 30 is the appropriate quantity,” he mentioned, based on Reuters, as he sees out his enforced gardening depart since parting methods with Alpine.
“When you go to 30, you actually have two groups (inside a group) and every group does 15,” he added. “That is a simple life in comparison with what you’ve got bought at present.
“I get what Liberty are doing,” he continued, “it is the appropriate factor for the game. We’re a worldwide sport, really world and will we be going to 25, 26, 27 races?”
Fellow American, Zak Brown has admitted help for extra races, whereas that’s clearly the dream of F1 CEO, Liberty Media, nonetheless, aside from the damage and tear on personnel, to not point out the additional prices the groups would endure, as the game heads into the busiest season in its historical past, may no more races lead to ‘viewer fatigue’? And that’s fairly except for the problem of high quality over amount.
So far as personnel are involved, Szafnauer believes that the answer can be for groups to mainly have two units of crews, whereby, for instance, at Alpine he was in search of to introduce a system that may see crew members work ten races on the observe and ten on the manufacturing facility together with 4 ‘wild playing cards’.
“The wild card means you select 4 races that you do not both do remotely or from the racetrack,” he mentioned. “Folks have a look at it and say it is simply taking over an excessive amount of of my life and due to this fact I am lacking birthdays and weddings and all of the stuff I do not need to miss.
“There is a approach round it,” he added. “My approach round it was ‘OK, out of the 24 you do 20 and get 4 wild playing cards. Simply inform us the wild playing cards upfront and we’ll work round it.
“When you say ‘OK, how about 26 races or 28 races in all of the nations on the planet?’, that is sustainable. However the calendar has to permit it,” he added.
“When you can overcome the logistics, which I believe you possibly can with a little bit of planning, after which overcome the human ingredient of it, which I believe we’re good at doing, you simply have to take a look at it in a artistic approach.”
