Max Verstappen has dominated Formulation 1 since 2021 with all of the championships and in 2024 he’s on observe for the Tetra championship. Because the 12 months of his first title within the ‘Grand Circus’ the Dash races had been established, which is a shorter race that distributes 36 factors, eight for the winner.
From 2021 to 2024 there have been 13 Sprints, based on data from StatsF1, and so they have additionally been dominated by Verstappen with eight wins, that means he took 61.5 of the races to date.
Regardless of his hegemony, the present three-time F1 champion has criticized this new format a number of occasions, most lately in China, because the circuit returned to the calendar after 5 years and the Dutchman thought of it safer for drivers to not be included in Shanghai.
F1 desires extra Dash races
Formulation 1 has seen an enchancment in viewers numbers on Fridays when operating a Dash Qualifying than when there are two practices, so it desires to implement this format extra occasions on its calendar, experiences Sky Sports activities F1.
Stefano Domenicali, CEO of Formulation 1, highlights the competitors’s want to offer attendees enjoyable on the primary day of the weekend.
“On Friday, within the Qualifying Dash (in China), we had wonderful situations and a variety of operating, which is a reminder that we should be sure that day-after-day there’s some motion on the observe, to respect the followers who come right here. as a result of we wish to have enjoyable.
I am positive the groups will perceive that, so we have to discover some options
“I’d say they’re nice as a result of they hold the strain day-after-day. That is one thing we are going to focus on sooner or later. Let’s examine how this format goes this 12 months… what I wish to focus on within the subsequent F1 Fee is to keep away from the likelihood, like we had in Japan, the place the automobiles did not run. That was not good as a result of individuals are coming to go to us and the drivers,” Domenicali mentioned.
Dash winners in F1 from 2021 to 2024
- Max Verstappen 8
- Valtteri Bottas 2
- Sergio Perez 1
- George Russell 1
- Oscar Piastri 1
