With out modifications to the race weekend format, Daniel Ricciardo believes a calendar consisting of 18 races could be the correct amount.
Formulation 1 has pushed forward in latest seasons with increasing the calendar, 22 rounds making up the 2022 schedule with plans for a document 24 races in 2023, set to function the long-term return of the Qatar Grand Prix and the debut of the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
If Formulation 1 does certainly introduce a 24-race calendar, then Ricciardo does suppose it’s doable.
Nonetheless, that’s provided that there’s a much less intense schedule for the race weekend.
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Chatting with Speedcafe, Ricciardo stated: “I feel like round that mark that 18 is an efficient quantity. It’s additionally the stuff, like, the race weekends are… they’re 4, generally five-day weekends.
“After which, for those who’ve obtained these back-to-back, or triple-headers, that’s what’s tiring.
“I feel we might race 24 instances [a year] and be okay, however the week has to look totally different to have the ability to obtain that correctly.
“The schedules want to vary, and the lead up wants to vary, but it surely’s exhausting when the game’s rising and also you’re getting extra sponsors and all the remainder of it, it’s exhausting to then minimize time.
“In the event that they nonetheless need the time, then I feel 18 [races] is an efficient quantity.”
Daniel Ricciardo shouldn’t be going to get his want of an 18-race calendar
Whereas seasons with fewer than 20 rounds have been widespread in years previous, it appears close to inconceivable that Formulation 1 will return to these sort of numbers deliberately.
The actual fact is that Formulation 1 has arguably by no means been extra fashionable, the game is bringing in new followers and reaching an more and more youthful viewers, which naturally implies that the demand to host a grands prix is rising on a regular basis.
Formulation 1 is having fun with a very productive reputation growth in america, sparked by Netflix’s Drive to Survive sequence, with the debut of the Miami Grand Prix and upcoming Las Vegas Grand Prix following.
The sequence is actively pursuing methods to make the calendar extra manageable, together with the prospect of races being grouped geographically in a bid to cut back the cases of travelling from one a part of the globe to the opposite between rounds.
Nonetheless, with dash qualifying additionally focused for a rise from the present three stagings in 2022, topic to FIA approval, it appears that evidently Ricciardo might get a half-baked answer to his want for a much less demanding format.
In fact, the Aussie first should hope that he’s on the 2023 grid, with Oscar Piastri hotly tipped to switch him at McLaren from subsequent season.