Components 1 is seeking to entice extra followers all through the weekend: a rise in Dash races from 2027 is being ready, with fewer free apply classes.
The Dash format throughout an F1 weekend continues to persuade insiders. Based on Motorsport.com, Liberty Media is contemplating increasing the variety of brief races, reaching round ten beginning in 2027. The format, launched in 2021, has seen a gradual enhance over time, turning into an ever extra frequent fixture on the calendar.
For promoters, the Dash represents an added worth for ticket gross sales, even when not all the time apparent. Based on Bobby Epstein, co-founder of the American circuit in Austin, the inclusion of a Saturday Dash race doesn’t translate into extra ticket gross sales, nevertheless it will increase the ticket’s worth. Epstein provides that the utmost leisure potential throughout the weekend stays the actual purpose, with folks staying longer on the observe.
F1 following MotoGP’s path, however not with Dash weekends everywhereMoving to Florida, the place the Miami Grand Prix already hosted this format this yr, encouraging outcomes have already been seen. On this topic, Tyler Epp, president of the Miami GP, admitted to having modified his thoughts in regards to the format, with the numbers exhibiting an more and more increased attendance on Saturdays.
Components 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali confirms the trail being taken. In his phrases, it’s clear that other than a number of old-school followers, everyone seems to be in favor of Dash weekends, together with the drivers, with the assure that within the coming years there might be an increasing number of weekends making use of to host this format.
This, nevertheless, guidelines out a MotoGP-style format, the place Dash races are current at each spherical, with Domenicali talking “of a technique of maturation that respects a extra traditionalist strategy.”
For 2026, the utmost quantity will nonetheless stay at six, however nothing excludes that in 2027 this might enhance to as many as ten, with negotiations between FOM, FIA, and the groups already nicely underway.
Sep 17, 2025
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