McLaren F1 team Chief Executive Zak Brown said on Sunday that the latest FIA calendar theory could put the series’ most historic tracks at risk as a new F1 management team appear to be rotating low-tier tracks to accommodate additional events aimed at expanding the calendar.
In point of fact, latest remarks from McLaren boss in an interview with a press agency came forth just days after F1 had announced that it would return to Las Vegas streets for the first time since 1982 in a Saturday night race scheduled to take place in November , taking the number of US Grand Prixes to three.
Besides, sources familiar with the subject-matter had unveiled on condition of anonymity that F1 is believed to be exploring an option to add a second event in China at its calendar, while the F1 Chief Domenicali also had expressed a strong intent to stretch out Formula One’s footprints into the African continent.
The Continent had never witnessed an F1 event since a Kyalami Circuit back in the 1993s.
McLaren boss expresses worries about F1 expansion
Under current accord, the F1 teams are bound to participate at 24 racing events every year, though, Domenicali said earlier last week that the number of F1 events could reach up to 30 as early as next year.
Meanwhile, speaking in an interview with a press agency, McLaren boss Brown said, “If you could wave a magic wand, I’d like to see something like 21 or 22 races.
[It would be a calendar of] 17 or 18 as permanent fixtures and seven or eight that rotate. Because I do think to continue to grow the sport, the more quality markets we can be in, the better. ‘”
