Comments on: Teams Look Into Ways Of Retaining Summer Break

By: Gman

Gman — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:43:25 +0000

I’ve spoken about this in several posts on this blog and others, but if the teams want to keep the 3-week break and put it in around where it is currently, this can be done with ease. More permanent steps should be taken to expand the schedule and keep the break at the same time in the future, but for this season….

1. Start the season one or two weeks earlier, and in order to keep Bernie’s time zone fix happy….
2. Make Bahrain the season-opener, as was done in 2006, thus making the GP availabale to European audiences at a good viewing time.
3. Go to the Australian flyaway two weeks later, as was also done in 2006.
4. Put the break in around where it is on this year’s setup.
5. Finally, Bernie should pick up the phone to Indiana and get the USGP back on the scheudle for 2009- a different argument entirely, but one that can clearly be resolved for 2009 if everyone wants to still make major changes such as the ones proposed here.

By: Oliver White

Oliver White — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:12:50 +0000

@francois: Bernie wants the season to start later in March so in Europe, when the clocks have gone back an hour, the start of the race will be one hour closer to regular awake-time for us. It doesn’t help those on the other side of the planet, but Bernie is Bernie and this is his strategy at the moment.

By: francois

francois — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:53:52 +0000

I’m not sure why they’re starting the season so late at the end of March – they could just move the start back three weeks and then slot in the gap to give the required break.I myself wasn’t too keen on having to wait 3 weeks for my fix but at least this time there was the Olympics to make up for it!

By: Oliver White

Oliver White — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:38:04 +0000

I think I said in the “Will McLaren Be Disadvantaged” post that losing the three week break was great for the fans, but not so for the teams. I too prefer to not have any long breaks between races. But then, I too am selfish and also come from a generation that remembers when there was no summer holiday. And I absolutely hated the three week break they put between rounds 1 and 2 in 2007. That did my head in.

Having said all that, it does allow us F1-bloggers to squeeze in a proper holiday as well if we so desire! Swings and roundabouts, I guess. I don’t understand why the season can’t go until the end of November, thus allowing time for a summer vacation mid-season and a shorter off-season.

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:30:13 +0000

Humph, I hate it when there’s no GP for 3 weeks so for entirely selfish reasons I really hope they don’t find a way of reshuffling things!!