Next year’s F1 calendar to be confirmed in October, 24 races likely

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Most 24 race cap prone to be hit in 2023, suggests Domenicali

Components 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali expects to verify particulars of subsequent 12 months’s schedule “round early October”, he advised a name to Liberty Media buyers yesterday.

Domenicali indicated the 2023 F1 calendar is prone to characteristic the utmost permitted 24 races. The collection is endeavouring to reorganise a few of its rounds to cut back the quantity of journey and subsequently lower prices and emissions.

“We wish to maintain the proper circulation when it comes to effectivity world wide, to contemplate the wants of a calendar to be unfold out from March to November all world wide,” he mentioned.

“The demand could be very, very excessive,” for races, he added. “We can’t [say] something greater than what we’re saying as a result of we’re, in fact, finalising all the small print. However we for certain count on to have a few races greater than this 12 months, however lower than 25, that’s for certain.”

Nato replaces injured Fowl for Seoul season finale

Jaguar Components E driver Sam Fowl will miss the season finale double-header in Seoul, South Korea, after fracturing his hand early within the second London EPrix final weekend.

Norman Nato will step into Fowl’s automotive for each races in Seoul, which will probably be internet hosting the all-electric championship for the primary time. Nato beforehand competed within the collection with Venturi final 12 months, taking one race victory within the second Berlin EPrix.

It will likely be the primary Components E races with out Fowl on the grid, leaving Lucas di Grassi as the one driver to have began each Components E race. He and the collection will attain their centenaries of begins on Sunday.

Components Regional Asian Championship provides Kuwait to 2023 schedule

The Components Regional Asian Championship and the Components 4 UAE Championship will each compete on the Kuwait Motor City circuit for the primary time throughout subsequent 12 months’s season.

The 5.6-kilometre grade one venue was opened in 2019 however has by no means beforehand held a spherical of the FRAC earlier than. The Kuwait circuit will kind considered one of 5 rounds in a 15 race schedule, starting in Dubai in mid-January and shutting in Abu Dhabi in mid-February.

This 12 months’s FRAC drivers’ title was received by Ferrari academy driver Arthur Leclerc, youthful brother of Ferrari F1 driver Charles Leclerc.

Grid penalty for Castroneves

Helio Castroneves has been given a six-place grid penalty for this weekend’s IndyCar race in Nashville after his staff fitted his fifth engine of the season, exceeding his most restrict of 4. The Meyer Shank driver was twenty third out of 26 opponents within the opening observe session, which was led by Christian Lundgaard.

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Vettel offered Formula E place after F1 exit by former Virgin racer (Mirror)

“I believe lots of the sustainability talks in F1 aren’t actually making any distinction, like saying ‘do not use fossil fuels’ after which they’re sponsored by Aramco. Vettel has change into, in the previous couple of years, acutely aware in regards to the state of the world and what he can do to make it higher and use his platform as a sportsman to attempt to make the world a greater place.”

Off Grid | Hungarian GP (Williams)

“The newest episode of Off Grid is delivered to you from the fantastic metropolis of Budapest. We welcomed a few of our tremendous followers contained in the paddock on Friday, Nicholas Latifi lead a Williams one-three in FP3 within the moist and Jamie Chadwick continued her W Sequence title pursuit.”

Explaining the latest Technical Directives – and what they mean for porpoising (F1)

“F1 technical skilled Sam Collins is available to clarify simply what the FIA are as much as, what it means for the groups, the timelines concerned and whether or not we’ll see any extra porpoising after the summer time break.”

Opinion: Ricciardo’s situation at McLaren exposes F1’s brutal nature (Top Gear)

“And if McLaren’s sport of attorneys and clauses involves nothing, there’s at all times the choice of merely paying up what Ricciardo would’ve earned and saying ‘cheerio’. That may doubtless imply parting with a sum of cash quantifiable as A Lot, however given how public the fallout has been, it seems to be just like the Woking staff has determined to chew the bullet both method.”

Formula 4 aces to return for 2022 FIA Motorsport Games (FIA)

“Every FIA Nationwide Sporting Authority can have the chance to enter one driver to compete within the Components 4 occasions which will probably be run at Circuit Paul Ricard.”

Ask Mick Schumacher (Haas via YouTube)

“You despatched in you questions for Mick Schumacher on social media – he solutions a few of them within the new version of Ask Mick!”

F1 Teams Summer Break Evaluation (Conor Moore via YouTube)

“Crimson Bull, Mercedes, Ferarri, McLaren and Gunther look again on the first half of the season…”

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