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I do enjoy a sprint race weekend, the current format is pretty good and I
am sold. I reckon I am ready to see every race weekend be a sprint race weekend, but I know many people hate the sprints.

Why is that? The race on Sunday was boring as hell and the sprint qualy
and race was wildly entertaining by comparison. Most sprints this year and
last have been good fun, in my opinion... Domenicali seems keen to get
more sprints into the calendar, I reckon they should just commit and go
for it - so long FP2 and 3!
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vintageapplemac@gmail.com (scole) writes:

I do enjoy a sprint race weekend, the current format is pretty good and I
am sold.

Nah. I want them to practice, to qualify for the race, and then to race.
Job done. Pack up. Go home.

Shoving an extra quali and race into the weekend is a wrongheaded
slavery to the "some is good therefore more is better" fallacy.

Other opinions are available, and probably equally valid.

Phil
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Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org> wrote:

vintageapplemac@gmail.com (scole) writes:

I do enjoy a sprint race weekend, the current format is pretty good and I
am sold.

Nah. I want them to practice, to qualify for the race, and then to race.
Job done. Pack up. Go home.

Shoving an extra quali and race into the weekend is a wrongheaded
slavery to the "some is good therefore more is better" fallacy.

Other opinions are available, and probably equally valid.

Phil

But I agree with yours.
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On 25/10/2025 12:45 pm, Sir Tim wrote:

Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org> wrote:

vintageapplemac@gmail.com (scole) writes:

I do enjoy a sprint race weekend, the current format is pretty good and I >>> am sold.

Nah. I want them to practice, to qualify for the race, and then to race.
Job done. Pack up. Go home.

Shoving an extra quali and race into the weekend is a wrongheaded
slavery to the "some is good therefore more is better" fallacy.

Other opinions are available, and probably equally valid.

Phil

But I agree with yours.

As do I.
--
Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification
in the DSM"
David Melville.
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In article <10dju6e$3np19$1@dont-email.me>, ~misfit~ <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> wrote:

On 25/10/2025 12:45 pm, Sir Tim wrote:

Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org> wrote:

vintageapplemac@gmail.com (scole) writes:

I do enjoy a sprint race weekend, the current format is pretty good and I >>> am sold.

Nah. I want them to practice, to qualify for the race, and then to race. >> Job done. Pack up. Go home.

Shoving an extra quali and race into the weekend is a wrongheaded
slavery to the "some is good therefore more is better" fallacy.

Other opinions are available, and probably equally valid.

Phil

But I agree with yours.

As do I.

Well, I respectfully disagree... :-P We've got a couple of sprints coming
up, and I am looking forward to them as I know I'll be bathing myself in multiple hours of more racing those weekends, practice sessions are dull
as ditchwater no matter how hard I try to enjoy them (exception was
Monaco, it was enjoyable to spend time just looking at the cars going
around at that place). Lovely stuff!

I've also been watching more of the F2 this season than ever before, too,
and have really started to get into it. Christ, I've even watched a couple
of the F1 Academy races as well and had good fun.

More qualifying and races = satisfied me. Bring on more sprints!:)
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On 2/11/2025 11:40 pm, scole wrote:

In article <10dju6e$3np19$1@dont-email.me>, ~misfit~ <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> wrote:

On 25/10/2025 12:45 pm, Sir Tim wrote:

Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org> wrote:

vintageapplemac@gmail.com (scole) writes:

I do enjoy a sprint race weekend, the current format is pretty good and I >>>>> am sold.

Nah. I want them to practice, to qualify for the race, and then to race. >>>> Job done. Pack up. Go home.

Shoving an extra quali and race into the weekend is a wrongheaded
slavery to the "some is good therefore more is better" fallacy.

Other opinions are available, and probably equally valid.

Phil

But I agree with yours.

As do I.

Well, I respectfully disagree... :-P

As is your right - thank you for being respectful about it. ;)

We've got a couple of sprints coming
up, and I am looking forward to them as I know I'll be bathing myself in multiple hours of more racing those weekends, practice sessions are dull
as ditchwater no matter how hard I try to enjoy them (exception was
Monaco, it was enjoyable to spend time just looking at the cars going
around at that place). Lovely stuff!

My opinion is that the GP is the spectacle, practice sessions are just that and not really meant to
be entertaining. However they are important for the teams to dial in their cars properly for the
GP. The lack of practice sessions means that cars often start the sprint (and to a lesser extent
the GP) out of place on the grid.

You'd think that would make for more entertaining racing but, with the cars how they are overtaking
is almost impossible unless you are 1 second plus a lap faster than the car you're trying to
overtake. At a lot or tracks the cars are all running really close so that's rare. (Witness Sainz'
multiple attempted overtakes recently - he needs to remember that he's in a mid-field car now and
doesn't have the lap delta to pull of these 'passes' on other mid-field cars.) The one thing that
makes passing easier is a tyre offset but you don't get that in a sprint.

The situation we're in is that the owners of F1 are trying to milk it for as much as they can (yay
capitalism!). As you say practice sessions aren't great spectacles so don't get so many spectators.
I'm fine with that. I'd rather have one really good race a weekend than two incident-filled
un-pre-prepared and unsatisfying things.

I've also been watching more of the F2 this season than ever before, too,
and have really started to get into it. Christ, I've even watched a couple
of the F1 Academy races as well and had good fun.

More qualifying and races = satisfied me. Bring on more sprints!:)

I'm pleased someone is enjoying them!
--
Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification
in the DSM"
David Melville.
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~misfit~ <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> writes:

On 2/11/2025 11:40 pm, scole wrote:

In article <10dju6e$3np19$1@dont-email.me>, ~misfit~
<shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> wrote:

On 25/10/2025 12:45 pm, Sir Tim wrote:

Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org> wrote:

Other opinions are available, and probably equally valid.

But I agree with yours.

As do I.

Well, I respectfully disagree... :-P

As is your right - thank you for being respectful about it. ;)

Absolutely.

More qualifying and races = satisfied me. Bring on more sprints!:)

I'm pleased someone is enjoying them!

Sure. I don't not enjoy them, it's just that I now have more things to
try and fit into my weekend (F1 is not my highest priority, sorry[*]) and I don't get quite the kick out of them that I do the proper race. It does
help build the expectations for the Sunday race though, which, as
someone who pulls his race predictions out of his arse, adds hilarity.


Phil
[* yes, I know, get out, get out...]
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In article <875xbkqpsq.fsf@asdf.ee>, Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org> wrote:

~misfit~ <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> writes:

On 2/11/2025 11:40 pm, scole wrote:

More qualifying and races = satisfied me. Bring on more sprints!:)

I'm pleased someone is enjoying them!

Sure. I don't not enjoy them, it's just that I now have more things to
try and fit into my weekend (F1 is not my highest priority, sorry[*]) and I don't get quite the kick out of them that I do the proper race. It does
help build the expectations for the Sunday race though, which, as
someone who pulls his race predictions out of his arse, adds hilarity.

Well, yesterday's sprint was good fun, I thought. I'm hopeful that today's
race will be interesting, Interlagos usually is, but the Sprint was a nice
dash of chaos and fury, very enjoyable. Shame about the yellows at the end nipping the NOR/ANT battle in the bud, but good to see BOR walk away
unscathed from such a horrible accident.
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