Toto Wolff again presents the idea of adding a third car to the pit lane of each Formula 1 team and increasing the starting grid from 20 to 30 cars.
Right now, the teams in the sport are full of talent – talents who are struggling to get into Formula 1 due to the lack of vacant cockpits. Adding a third car could solve this problem, but potentially create others.
Mercedes Formula E champion Nyck de Vries is such a talent, and the driver squad at the Ferrari and Alpine academies is also full. It’s similar elsewhere.
The fear is that all of these talents could be forced to give up Formula 1 and instead pursue careers in Formula E, IndyCar, sports cars and the like.
Mercedes team boss Wolff sees a third car per team as the solution.
Williams CEO Jost Capito
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“We could use a third car and have to put a rookie in there,” Wolff is quoted by the German media RTL and Eurosport. “Suddenly you would have a starting grid with 30 cars.”
Williams team boss Jost Capito, however, is less enthusiastic about the proposal.
The last starting grid with up to 26 cars – 13 two-car teams – was the 1995 Monaco Grand Prix. The record for most starters in an F1 race is 34 cars (1953 German Grand Prix). The smallest starting line-up was the sixth (2005 US Grand Prix in Indianapolis after 14 cars retired due to tire safety issues before the start of the race).
“We can’t just increase to 30 cars now,” said Capito. “That wouldn’t work. Switching from two to three cars seems easy, but it’s incredibly difficult. That’s 50 percent more.
“I don’t know how that could be achieved with 22 or 23 races a year.
What do you think? Would you like to see 30 car fields in Formula 1? Is there enough talent out there? Start the discussion in the comments below.
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