Alternating Grand Prix: who is affected, and for whose benefit?

An old chestnut, the rule of alternation that Belgium will inaugurate from 2028 seems a very weak remedy to combat the congestion of the calendar.

Published 14/01/2025 à 09:00

Jean-Michel Desnoues

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Alternating Grand Prix: who is affected, and for whose benefit?

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A waste of time? Presented for ages as the universal panacea to regulate the calendar and open it to more candidates, the so-called alternation rule will have only a minor impact as long as it is not extended to many more tests. To be convinced of this, just take a look at the contracts currently valid. Among those that will expire at the end of the 2025 financial year, only Émilie's GP

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Yves-Henri RANDIER

15/01/2025 at 01:34 a.m.

With the lure of more or less bloody dollars and petrodollars, we will have 2 races in Saudi Arabia plus Abu Dhabi, Azerbaijan, Bahrain and Qatar without forgetting China (unless Emperor XI decides to invade Taiwan), Orban's Hungary or even Erdogan's Turkey and Kagame's Rwanda, i.e. 10 GPs out of 24 or 25 at the home of an autocrat/dictator who does more or less marked sportswashing! Money really has no smell for Liberty Media...

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