Brawn proposes league table to rank events
- Published on 15 Feb 2018 15:15
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- By: Fergal Walsh
F1's managing director of motorsport Ross Brawn has suggested that the sport could adopt a league table ranking system to ensure the most popular events are kept on the calendar. For the upcoming season, the calendar will feature a record matching 21 races.
And while Brawn admits that the calendar could grow even further, he has proposed the idea of promotion and relegation to keep "great races in great locations" as part of the schedule. The Briton states that the quality of the races should outway the number of events throughout the year.
"The crucial thing is the quality of the race. There's no value in just putting the number of races up," Brawn told British Airways' Business Life magazine. "But if we can provide great races in great locations throughout the world, then we should consider it.
"I'd love to see in the future a league table of races, where over time we've got a waiting list of top-class circuits and promoters that are waiting to get into Formula 1, and then if there's any race that is not working well, you relegate that and put a strong race in."
Malaysia, a popular race among fans, drops off the calendar for the 2018 season after the organisers decided it wasn't worth the investment anymore. However, France will return after a ten-year absence while Hockenheim will host the German Grand Prix, which didn't feature in 2017.
F1's owners Liberty Media are keen to introduce a second race in the US, with the Circuit of the Americas in Austin currently running the US Grand Prix. Plans are also underway in Denmark after Chase Carey visited its capital Copenhagen to discuss a possible race around its streets.
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Sensible idea from a sensible guy!
juju_hound
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Oh c'mon Azerbaijan is the worst circuit of the season but had the best race of 2017 just because something crazy was going on there all the time.
Kean
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You have a point. It was voted the best race on some site, because of events on track that likely wont be repeated in 2018. And it is a crap circuit... Still I like Brawn's idea. And, even though I haven't been paying attention to everything coming from Brawn, what I have read I generally agree with. I'm glad he got the job.
Pauli
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Too bad most people equal number of action including crashes and mistakes to equal how good a race is. For my a few of the best F1 moments were those great qualifications where one or two drivers made near perfect laps on the limit of car control.
calle.itw
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Good on you, Brawn.
Major Tom
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What a sensible idea and so unlike the previous management approach (when cash was the only factor).
kngrthr
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i agree with Pauli, not every event will be a wheel to wheel close dice or a demolition derby.
formula 1 is a "long game" sport that develops through the whole season.
one team may start stongly and others catch up later in the season.
in fact we saw that last year.
its a sport for connoisseurs really. not short attention span viewers