{"id":455807,"date":"2025-09-27T16:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T16:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/455807\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T16:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T16:56:10","slug":"sprint-races-and-reverse-grids-what-does-the-paddock-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/455807\/","title":{"rendered":"Sprint races and reverse grids: what does the paddock think?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gt-block\">In August 2025, Stefano Domenicali mentioned the prospect of introducing new sprint races with reverse starting grids, similar to the promotion formulas. Next season&#8217;s calendar only includes six sprint races like this year, but the president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autohebdof1.com\/news\/f1\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"F1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">F1<\/a> plans to organize twice as many Sprints in 2027. However, these future developments are far from unanimous in the paddock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gt-block\"><strong>ALSO READ &gt;\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autohebdof1.com\/news\/f1\/F1-announces-2026-sprints.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>F1 announces 2026 sprints<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Towards shorter races and a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In August 2025, Stefano Domenicali mentioned the prospect of introducing new sprint races with reverse starting grids, similar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,152959,707,4200,79,152960,14936,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-455807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-f1-2027","10":"tag-formula-1","11":"tag-formula1","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sprints","14":"tag-stefano-domenicali","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115277318318632610","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}