Vasseur calms worries about a 24-race F1 schedule

This year’s 24-race schedule for Formula 1 is expected to establish a new record for the competition.

Principal of the Ferrari Team Frederic Vasseur disagreed with the idea that Formula 1 has to shorten its race schedule in order to protect the health of its employees.

There will be 24 races in this year’s campaign, which will be a record for the sport.

Originally planned to have 24 events, the 2023 schedule was reduced to 22 after the rounds in Emilia Romagna and China were canceled.

Many are worried about how traveling staff members will be strained by such a busy schedule.

Nevertheless, Vasseur is optimistic that teams can create their own methods to reduce the adverse effects of the record-breaking schedule.

“We need to have the best approach for the mechanics, because it’s part of the performance, it’s part of the reliability,” Vasseur told journalists, including RacingNews365.

“It was not strange that there were more mistakes in the pit stops in Abu Dhabi than some [other races]. I think that everybody was exhausted.”

“It means that we need to think about perhaps having a rotation in terms of the mechanics, or to keep [some] mechanics to do the races and to have another group of mechanics at home, taking care of the cars when they are back at the factory.

“I think we have room to do something, we have room to manage it in a better way.”

Vasseur appreciates his expanding schedule

Over the past few years, F1 has been progressively adding events to its schedule.

According to Vasseur, the expanding statistic indicates that racing is doing well because of the desire to organize a Grand Prix event.

“We have to keep in mind that a couple of years ago we were struggling to find tracks and to find events,” he said.

“Today we have a lot of proposals, that we have a situation to [be able to] do 24 events, and also to be probably a bit selective on the events.”

The Frenchman went on to say that staff workers will be under less stress if specific portions of the schedule are grouped together for the following year.

“We have to work on the calendar, for sure,” he said.

“Next year, we’ll have the first part of the season on the far east with Melbourne, Japan and China in a row, so we’ll allow some mechanics and drivers to sometimes stay in this side of the world, it will be helpful.

“Then we have to manage properly the team, to give them some rest, but I don’t think we have to reduce the number of events.”

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