“Then you can take it”

Record calendar in 2022

With a number of recurring Grands Prix such as Japan and Australia and the addition of Miami, the 2022 calendar will look significantly different than the 2021 calendar. Also, the calendar will have one more race than this year. Szafnauer is just as happy as AlphaTauri team boss Franz Tost about the increasing calendar.

“Well, we’ve been looking at this for a while and we knew this would happen. I agree with Franz: It’s nice that we have 23 countries or 23 races that want us to come and present Formula 1. ” said Szafnauer according to FormulaRapida.net.

However, the Romanian American thinks of the traveling people of all teams and the organization. “We have procedures in place both at the factory and at the racetrack to make your travel as comfortable as possible, including sometimes changing employees and some other organizational changes at the factory.”

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Return of triple headers

The 2022 calendar will also see the return of triple headers. After the summer break, Formula 1 will visit Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy one after the other before contesting the second and heavier triple header from Russia, Singapore and Japan.

Szafnauer says the triple headers are more doable these days based on the experience the team has gained from previous triple headers. Still, he’d rather not see it on the calendar. “But they still weigh heavily on all of us.” Szafnauer knows one advantage of the two triple headers: “You can put up with one or two triple headers if you know that you won’t be driving until Christmas.”

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