Plans to introduce a raft of novel sporting regulations in 2022 have been delayed for a year. Formula 1 had intended to make key changes including scrapping Thursday’s ‘media day’ and tweaking the new sprint qualifying format which will take place at up to 6 or 7 races in 2022. But those changes have been put on the back burner until a year later. “It was a consensus with the teams actually,” F1 race director Michael Masi reveals. “So let’s take all of the elements that will change in 2022 and put them in the known format that we have, because we’d rather bet on something known rather than go in blind,” the Australian added.

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