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F1 News & Discussions => General F1 Discussion => Topic started by: John S on December 30, 2020, 07:18:57 PM

Title: Less F1 track time for our money over GP weekends - P1 & P2 cut to hour slots
Post by: John S on December 30, 2020, 07:18:57 PM

The excuse for chopping Friday practice times to an hour each:- "many feel the Friday sessions are currently too long."  WHAAAAT??  >:(

Wonder who the "many" can be?  - not any of us fans that's for sure!!!  >:D

https://www.pitpass.com/68953/Friday-sessions-reduced-to-60-minutes

Title: Re: Less F1 track time for our money over GP weekends - P1 & P2 cut to hour slots
Post by: Jericoke on December 30, 2020, 07:45:03 PM

I certainly don't mind them changing the rules to solve a problem... but I'm curious what problem this rule solves?

It'll save each team a couple sets of a tires and maybe 100 kg of fuel over a weekend, I guess that adds up over a season.  However, I feel like teams will just run compressed programmes, using the same number of tires, fuel, and wear/tear on the limited power unit components.  So no material savings, I'm guessing employees are paid to be there for the weekend, not per hour on the job (in which case, it must kind of suck to be dragged away from home for 5 days and lose an hour of work?), so no savings on personnel.

Are the international broadcasters upset about the extra time?  It's usually not shown on TV in Canada at all, just on streaming, so they can show more repeats of sports misplays.

Title: Re: Less F1 track time for our money over GP weekends - P1 & P2 cut to hour slots
Post by: Andy B on December 30, 2020, 11:55:35 PM

Are they going to reduce the cost of the Friday entry fee for fans?
I doubt that'll happen so yet again we pay more for less!

Title: Re: Less F1 track time for our money over GP weekends - P1 & P2 cut to hour slots
Post by: rmassart on December 31, 2020, 10:40:43 AM

I wonder if this is a precursor to cutting Friday completely...