The sprint weekend’s biggest draw remains the fact that it makes Friday less of a crushing, practice-filled bore – and it does lose some points for then having a Saturday practice session that nobody particularly cares for or seems to need – on a weekend with conventional weather, at least. It was a decent spectacle, but that was entirely circumstantial – the direct consequence of a mixed-weather qualifying and the quickest car/driver being overtaken off the line. Format flaws aided by circumstances Valentin Khorounzhiy It didn’t have the drama of Lewis Hamilton charging through from the back, like in Brazil last year, but as a race for the win, this was surely the best sprint event so far.
It was their ability to follow closely into the DRS detection points and at the beginning of the straight which made the race. It shouldn’t be forgotten that this was only made possible by the DRS zone and so isn’t 100% pure, but it should also be pointed out that this would not have been as interesting a race with last year’s cars. Overtaking was difficult but possible between evenly matched cars – which is always the best point of balance. That this should happen around a track infamous for its difficulty in passing was all the more noteworthy. It was the most finely-balanced of the sprint races with building tension and an exciting ending. The one mistake F1 keeps making is talking them up so aggressively that the sprints can’t possibly live up to it! 2022 cars made this the best sprint yet Mark Hughes
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After all, it creates more competition than the usual format with three free practice sessions. There are plenty of ways to improve the format, certainly, but this race has done nothing to change my impression last year that the format is neither brilliant nor awful, but a gentle positive somewhere in between those two extremes. The sprint race is about the right length to hold the attention, falling short of the length needed to create the extra complexity of the grand prix itself and is a slightly different challenge for drivers. Sometimes the sprint race will create more disorder in the grid, although today it actually made the starting grid for the race more closely in line with dry-weather performance in the top half of the grid. They vary the weekend format, put the pressure on teams to think on their feet in terms of set-up given the lack of preparation time and today created an interesting race with a late pass for the lead. Ultimately, the sprint events work decently.
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