FIA boss Jean Todt says F1 doesn’t need a sprint race

FIA President and former Ferrari team boss Jean Todt has expressed concern about sprint races in F1.

By Sahil Gupta
| Updated: 22-Jun-21 05:06 PM IST

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The FIA ​​president and former Ferrari team boss is against sprint races

FIA President and former Ferrari team boss Jean Todt has expressed concern about sprint races in F1. Sprint races, proposed by his former Ferrari colleague Ross Brawn, Formula 1 chief technical officer, will debut this year with 3 races scaled to 6 by 2022. Todt does not agree with his former colleague.

“If you ask me if I’m a big fan of it, the answer is no, I don’t think Formula 1 needs it,” he said in an interview with race fans.

However, he also said he wasn’t against the idea of ​​testing new things as long as they don’t clash with Sunday’s main race.

Todt was Brawns boss at Ferrari Ferrari from the end of the 90s to the end of the 2000s

“On the other hand, if people want to try something, it won’t hurt the race on Sunday. It’s going to be a different way of starting a grid on Sunday. So it doesn’t cost anything to try,” he added.

Ross Brawn has also said he’s open to the idea of ​​dropping the sprint race for 2022 if people don’t like it. However, the most recent race in Baku, which had essentially a 2-lap sprint race after a red flag in the last two laps, caused a lot of excitement.

He also said that maybe it would be a good idea not to call it a race. “We don’t call it a race. I have part of the responsibility not to call it a race. For me the race is on Sunday,” said the Frenchman.

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The first sprint race will take place at Silverstone during the British GP weekend. There are concerns that Saturday’s sprint race will water down the qualifying season, which is now being postponed to Friday. The counter, which will be the same number of people working during the day, is prime time at 6:00 p.m. UK Standard Time.

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