Inaugurated in July 2021, the 100 km sprint race format is back this Saturday April 23 in Imola, with several new features.
Saturday afternooninstead of the traditional qualifying session, Formula 1 has innovatedlast season, introducing a new size.
Namely, holding a 100 km run, the result of which is used to determine the starting grid for the Sunday Grand Prix. Tested three times in 2021, this concept is back this year, but having made several brand changes, particularly in terms of the points scale. Discover below the main changes allocated to the sprint race format for this year 2022, as well as the timetables for the Emilia-Romagna GP weekend, from Friday 22 to Sunday 24 April.
=> F1 GP Emilia-Romagna 2022: the TV program for testing, qualifying… and the sprint race
Weekend program in Imola
- Friday at 1.30 p.m.: Free practice 1 (60 min)
- Friday at 5:00 p.m.: Qualifications (Q1-Q2-Q3, about 60 min)
- Saturday at 12:30 p.m.: Free practice 2 (60 min)
- Saturday at 4.30 p.m.: Sprint race (100 km, i.e. 21 laps of 4.909 km at Imola, or 30 min maximum)
- Sunday at 3 p.m.: Grand Prix (309.049 km at Imola with 63 laps of 4.909 km or 120 min maximum)
Extensive points scale
In its first year of existence, in 2021, the sprint race was synonymous with points for the first three classified drivers. The winner scored three units, while the two competitors who arrived behind him received two and one respectively. In 2022, Formula 1 widens the scale in a significative way. Indeed, these are now no less than eight pilotsand their respective stables, which are rewarded with pointsaccording to the following scale: 8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1. A way of giving even more importance to the sprint race vis-à-vis the Sunday Grand Prix, the scale of which does not change (25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1 and 1 additional point for the author of the fastest lap in the race on condition of being classified in the Top 10).
Pole position awarded on Friday
Last season, pole position was awarded at the end of the sprint race on Saturday. In this case, to the winner of it or, in the event of the latter’s downgrading, to the driver who came second. In fact, the qualifying session held on Friday, intended to compose the grid for the sprint race the next day, was not synonymous with any official reward for the author of the best time. A strange state of affairs having aroused many reactions, F1 fans not understanding, on the one hand, that the driver who dominated a qualifying session is thus absent from the ledger of statistics, and on the other hand, that the winner of a race (sprint) be credited with a pole position. That’s why, from now on, it is at the end of qualifying on Friday that the status of poleman will be officially awarded. Inevitably, this means that the author of the pole position will not necessarily occupy the first row of the grid of the Grand Prix on Sunday. Unless, of course, you win the sprint race on Saturday.
New Grand Prix concerned
In 2021, Formula 1 had baptized the sprint race at Silverstone on July 17, as part of the British Grand Prix. Subsequently, the full-scale test was reproduced in Monza (Italy) then Interlagos (Brazil). While it was planned to double the total of Grands Prix concerned by this format, they are finally maintained at the number of three, in a season that boasted a record 23 innings. In view of the level of spectacle reserved last year by each of the three routes, only that ofInterlagos is renewed for hosting the sprint race format. Silverstone and Monza are replaced numerically by two other European events. This is’Imolasetting for the Emilia-Romagna GP, and the Red Bull Ringwhich is responsible for hosting the Austrian GP, from July 8 to 10.
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More informations :
Formula 1 2022: calendar, drivers, teams, rankings
2022 F1 calendar: GP dates and times
Formula 1 2022: the major novelties of a record season
Inaugurated in July 2021, the 100 km sprint race format is back this Saturday April 23 in Imola, with several new features.
Saturday afternooninstead of the traditional qualifying session, Formula 1 has innovatedlast season, introducing a new size.
Namely, holding a 100 km run, the result of which is used to determine the starting grid for the Sunday Grand Prix. Tested three times in 2021, this concept is back this year, but having made several brand changes, particularly in terms of the points scale. Discover below the main changes allocated to the sprint race format for this year 2022, as well as the timetables for the Emilia-Romagna GP weekend, from Friday 22 to Sunday 24 April.
=> F1 GP Emilia-Romagna 2022: the TV program for testing, qualifying… and the sprint race
Weekend program in Imola
- Friday at 1.30 p.m.: Free practice 1 (60 min)
- Friday at 5:00 p.m.: Qualifications (Q1-Q2-Q3, about 60 min)
- Saturday at 12:30 p.m.: Free practice 2 (60 min)
- Saturday at 4.30 p.m.: Sprint race (100 km, i.e. 21 laps of 4.909 km at Imola, or 30 min maximum)
- Sunday at 3 p.m.: Grand Prix (309.049 km at Imola with 63 laps of 4.909 km or 120 min maximum)
Extensive points scale
In its first year of existence, in 2021, the sprint race was synonymous with points for the first three classified drivers. The winner scored three units, while the two competitors who arrived behind him received two and one respectively. In 2022, Formula 1 widens the scale in a significative way. Indeed, these are now no less than eight pilotsand their respective stables, which are rewarded with pointsaccording to the following scale: 8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1. A way of giving even more importance to the sprint race vis-à-vis the Sunday Grand Prix, the scale of which does not change (25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1 and 1 additional point for the author of the fastest lap in the race on condition of being classified in the Top 10).
Pole position awarded on Friday
Last season, pole position was awarded at the end of the sprint race on Saturday. In this case, to the winner of it or, in the event of the latter’s downgrading, to the driver who came second. In fact, the qualifying session held on Friday, intended to compose the grid for the sprint race the next day, was not synonymous with any official reward for the author of the best time. A strange state of affairs having aroused many reactions, F1 fans not understanding, on the one hand, that the driver who dominated a qualifying session is thus absent from the ledger of statistics, and on the other hand, that the winner of a race (sprint) be credited with a pole position. That’s why, from now on, it is at the end of qualifying on Friday that the status of poleman will be officially awarded. Inevitably, this means that the author of the pole position will not necessarily occupy the first row of the grid of the Grand Prix on Sunday. Unless, of course, you win the sprint race on Saturday.
New Grand Prix concerned
In 2021, Formula 1 had baptized the sprint race at Silverstone on July 17, as part of the British Grand Prix. Subsequently, the full-scale test was reproduced in Monza (Italy) then Interlagos (Brazil). While it was planned to double the total of Grands Prix concerned by this format, they are finally maintained at the number of three, in a season that boasted a record 23 innings. In view of the level of spectacle reserved last year by each of the three routes, only that ofInterlagos is renewed for hosting the sprint race format. Silverstone and Monza are replaced numerically by two other European events. This is’Imolasetting for the Emilia-Romagna GP, and the Red Bull Ringwhich is responsible for hosting the Austrian GP, from July 8 to 10.
Photo : Icon Sport
More informations :
Formula 1 2022: calendar, drivers, teams, rankings
2022 F1 calendar: GP dates and times
Formula 1 2022: the major novelties of a record season
