F1 to revamp calendar for 2024 with smarter and sustainable schedule
May 6 - Formula 1 will organise a smarter and more sustainable calendar for 2024, Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has revealed.
Currently, the stops on the calendar mean the thousands of personnel who travel from race to race are essentially "zig-zagging" across the world from one continent to another.
For instance, the last race was in Azerbaijan - separated by mere days from this weekend's grand prix in Miami.
"We will no longer hop from continent to continent," Wolff told APA news agency. "If we are somewhere, we will stay there longer."
What he means is that the races will be more appropriately grouped together geographically.
"The European races, the Asian races, the Middle East races, the American races. That's actually a no-brainer," Wolff said.
He said Mercedes also undertakes many of its own measures to reduce F1's carbon footprint.
"We fly some of the time with sustainable aviation fuel," said the Austrian. "For the flights where we can't find it, we offset our share of the flight's fuel requirements by purchasing sustainable fuel."
Wolff said Formula 1 is also moving to sustainable fuels for the cars.
"If we can deliver a sustainable fuel, we can help ensure that a fuel is also developed for road production," he said.
"We have a billion viewers in the world. We have the task of beating this drum."
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I'll only believe this is reality shows the same outcome when the race calendar comes out later this year.
A fully regionalized schedule would be impractical because of differences in climatic conditions, but as regionalized as practicable should be the minimum target, although I care even more about avoiding triple headers altogether for the travelling teams' sake & such a race calendar is achievable even with 24 events without shortening the summer-break interval.
Here's an example, which is largely unchanged from this season just to be sure of avoiding triples, but I've considered possible changes such as Suzuka & Baku (again) moving:
Saudi Arabian GP 3.3
Australian GP 10.3
Chinese GP 24.3
Japanese GP 31.3
Bahrain GP 14.4
Miami GP/Spanish GP/Emilia-Romagna GP 28.4
Spanish GP/Miami/Emilia-Romagna GP 12.5
Monaco GP 26.5
Emilia-Romagna GP/Spanish GP 2.6
Canadian GP 16.6
Belgian GP/Austrian GP 30.6
British GP 7.7
Austrian GP/Hungarian GP 21.7
Hungarian GP/Belgian GP 28.7
Dutch GP 25.8
Italian GP 1.9
Singapore GP 15.9
Azerbaijan GP 22.9
Qatar GP 6.10
US GP 20.10
Mexico City GP 27.10
Sao Paulo GP 10.11
LV GP 16.11
Abu Dhabi GP 1.12