F1 2023 - News/Regulation change/Developments

Formula 1 will continue to race in the Netherlands until at least 2025 after the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort signed an extended contract.

The deal adds races in 2024 and 2025 to the initial three years agreed with F1.

 

It’s the amazing sound lol

 

FIA ready to shorten DRS zones in F1 2023
The FIA looks set to reduce the length of some DRS zones in Formula 1 next season, amid concerns that overtaking has become too easy at several venues.

 

FIA introducing tougher floor tests for 2023 cars

https://f1i.com/news/462490-fia-introducing-tougher-floor-tests-for-2023-cars.html

 

**** me, they're really confused at the FIA.

Earlier this week: We must have reverse DRS so that overtaking is easier.

Now we must have shorter DRS so that overtaking is harder.

Make up your ****ing mind, FIA!

And yes, shorter DRS with the goal to remove it entirely is the answer. But they're looking like complete ****ing inept idiots the way they're flip flopping all over the shop.

 

Spanish GP to run the old track for 2023! No more idiotic Chicane!!

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Good news indeed !!

 

That's a good-looking track.

It's not like the chicane ever did anything for the racing anyway. I can't recall anyone ever overtaking there unless they were blue flagged, and even then, backmarkers would sometimes be an impediment all the way until the final corner.

All the best,
Andrew.

 

I thought they put the chicane in because speeds in that last corner were so high they were worried about someone crashing and hitting the wall coming onto the straight (i.e. not adequate space to slow a car at that speed). I could be remembering wrong... either way agree with all, good riddance!

 

Exactly. Though the chicane wasn't installed to overtake there, but rather close the field up for T1.

Didn't make an ounce of difference still

Totally too the flow out from the track. Nice idea, didn't work out, should've been abandoned years ago.

 

Even with the chicane thee were plenty of shunts (and stunts) between the last turn and the stadium walls.

 

Does that come from the budget ?

 

Seidl exits mclaren and will be on his way to Sauber to head the audi project.

 

Saudi Arabia set to host F1 2024 season opener
Saudi Arabia is set to host the opening round of the 2024 Formula 1 season after requesting to stage its grand prix before the start of Ramadan.



F1 signed a lucrative 10-year deal to race in Saudi Arabia starting in 2021, with plans to move the race from the Jeddah Corniche Circuit to the new-build city of Qiddiyah in the future.

The race joined the calendar as the penultimate race in 2021 before shifting to early in the season for 2022, serving as the second round after the Bahrain Grand Prix.

It will once again be round two in 2023, but it has been revealed that Jeddah is set to play host to the opening race of the season in 2024.

 

When do the F1 races start in 2023?

Date Grand Prix UK race start
March 5 Bahrain GP 3pm
March 19 Saudi Arabian GP 5pm
April 2 Australian GP 6am
April 30 Azerbaijan GP 12pm
May 7 Miami GP 8.30pm
May 21 Emilia-Romagna GP 2pm
May 28 Monaco GP 2pm
June 4 Spanish GP 2pm
June 18 Canadian GP 7pm
July 2 Austrian GP 2pm
July 9 British GP 3pm
July 23 Hungarian GP 2pm
July 30 Belgian GP 2pm
August 27 Dutch GP 2pm
September 3 Italian GP 2pm
September 17 Singapore GP 1pm
September 24 Japanese GP 6am
October 8 Qatar GP 3pm
October 22 United States GP 8pm
October 29 Mexican GP 8pm
November 5 Brazilian GP 6am
November 19 Las Vegas GP 6am (10pm Saturday night start local)
November 26 Abu Dhabi GP 1pm

There are six Sprint events in 2023 - double the amount of the past two seasons - and they are in Azerbaijan (2.30pm on Saturday, April 29), Austria (3.30pm on July 1), Belgium (3.30pm on July 29), Qatar (3.30pm on October 7), USA (11pm on October 21) and Brazil (6.30pm on November 4).

 

The Australian Grand Prix at Melbourne's Albert Park will be staying on the Formula 1 schedule for some years to come, with the announcement of a further two years to its existing contract.

The race was already assured of remaining on the calendar until 2035, but now a further deal will take that up to the end of 2037.

The state government of Victoria made the announcement on Thursday. The revised contract also means that Melbourne will host the season opener on four occasions during this time.

 

If F1 is going to continue to slide deeper into the pockets of the middle east and expand their presence there ... than fine. But for all is holy... shut the F up about the "we race as one" bullsh*t and the rainbows and diversity and all of that rhetoric. Seriously just shut the F up about it all if you're going to continue to expand and sign deals with an area of the world that is literally counter in practice to all the holy rolling diversity talk that gets crammed down our throats by F1

You can't have it both ways. You can't claim to be a champion of the LGBT and the rest of the whatever letters are fashionable these days, and race in those parts of the world with a straight face. If Lewis and other top drivers would boycott those races... maybe that would send the appropriate message. Let them be races for the reserve drivers. You just can't have it both ways.

 

The only thing we can do to stop (or slow) this is to quit consuming oil and oil products.

 

And no more stupid winter test analysis about mechanical grip in S3 !