Comments on: F1 2007 Calendar - Possible Revisions

By: Desmond Elmes

Desmond Elmes — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:24:21 +0000

There’s talk now of Turkey losing its Grand Prix after the controversy caused by the Turkish Cypriot leader presenting Felipe Massa with the winner’s trophy, against the FIA protocol that presentations are made by dignitaries representing the host nation. If this was to materialise, then there would only be 16 Grands Prix next season.

By: doctorvee

doctorvee — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:09:37 +0000

I think I’d keep roughly the same number of races. I used to like the idea of 20, but now I think that’s just too much.

I think if I was in charge of the calendar I’d change things about every year to give it more variety. At the moment F1 visits the same 18 or 19 circuits all the time when there are surely so many other great tracks in the world that F1 could take a look at.

I don’t have any particular problem with the Tilke tracks, although maybe we could have three of them instead of the four we have now, with some kind of rota system in place.

I would have only one GP each for Italy and Germany, with them alternating between Imola and Monza and Hockenheim and Nürburgring. Perhaps I would do the same for Japan aswell.

By: k

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:41:48 +0000

i’d have less races. i’ve not watched the last 2-3 gp’s, but just checked the results online. i can’t believe how much free time i seem to have over the course of a weekend now.

how about they spread the season over more months but with less races? the winter downtime is a bit long (and dull with all that testing). and the summer break isn’t long enough.

plus if there were more winter races, it might rain more often, and thus jenson might win again.