The Miami and Chinese Grands Prix will host dash races in the 2024 Formula One season, organisers introduced on Tuesday.
There will likely be six sprints for the second straight 12 months, after the format was added in 2022 to a few race weekends.
The Azerbaijan and Belgian races will miss out on the Saturday dash having held one every in 2023.
“The addition of Shanghai will be a challenge for the teams and drivers as Formula One heads back to China for the first time since 2019, while a sprint in Miami will add a new dimension to an enthralling weekend,” stated Mohammed Ben Sulayem, president of motorsports’ governing physique the FIA.
The United States, Austrian, Brazilian and Qatari Grands Prix will once more host sprints, which supply eight championship factors to the winner.
The information follows Formula One’s agreeement to alter its dash format for 2024 after assist from groups and stakeholders to make race weekends simpler to observe.
“The Commission gave overall support for an update to the sprint format for 2024 to further rationalise the weekend by separating Sprint activities from those for the Grand Prix,” the FIA stated in an announcement.
Points could possibly be awarded extra broadly for the dash race, with a doable reverse grid factor additionally into account.
“The final calendar for the 2024 sprint events will be published in the coming weeks.”
Six of this 12 months’s 22 rounds have been dash weekends, together with the Qatar Grand Prix in which Red Bull’s Max Verstappen clinched his third world title on a Saturday.
Max Verstappen will bid for a fourth straight drivers’ world title subsequent 12 months after a file-breaking 2023 season in which he gained 19 of the 22 races and 4 sprints.
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