Formula 1 is looking to expand the newly-tweaked ‘sprint shootout’ weekend format to as many as ten grands prix in 2024. The format – now with a separate ‘shootout’ qualifying for a standalone sprint race on Saturday – debuted at Baku last weekend, and will be repeated five more times this season. He said some tweaks could be made to the revised format for 2024, and admitted that “traditional Formula 1 fans” are less enthusiastic than the newer ones. Therefore, Domenicali insisted that Formula 1 will not use the sprint race format at each and every grand prix, but the plan is to expand it to “maybe a third of the calendar”.

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