For F1 fans, even though there are now 23 F1 races per season, they still feel uncomfortable!
Recently, Spanish F1 journalist Pedro Fermin Flores revealed a bold proposal, as part of the negotiations on the new version of the Concorde Agreement, the F1 side proposed to hold three consecutive Grand Prix in seven days.
According to media reports, the proposal could achieve 30 games a year through three games a week, and one possibility is now being reported to be a race in Canada on Sunday, followed by the next one in Austin on Wednesday and the final game in Mexico on Saturday to complete the extreme "back-to-back" schedule.
The news is bound to spark a lot of discussion, especially for Chinese fans, who will need to adjust to the jet lag if they want to watch the three races in the Americas in a week's time. It is a huge challenge for each team, and it is a very practical problem for the team staff to complete the logistics work in a short period of time compared to the continuous competition of the drivers.
For the 2023 F1 season, based on the original 23 races, the ten teams will travel across five continents, 20 countries, 240 hours of flight time and 10 different time zones. Before the start of each season, each team packs around five containers containing all the non-critical equipment needed for the race weekend and transports them to their designated location by transport. For example, the containers will be shipped to Bahrain, Australia, Azerbaijan and Miami before the start of the season, and will be shipped to Saudi Arabia, Singapore and Brazil after the Bahrain station. After the game in Australia, the local container is shipped to Japan, and so on......
But the finishing panels of the team's work area, as well as some important car parts and equipment, had to follow the team to the next race to a greater or lesser extent. One of the biggest headaches for the team was the back-to-back races in Europe, which was a nightmare for the team's support staff due to lack of time.
Taking the back-to-back of the Hungarian and Belgian races as an example, after the race ended at 5 p.m. local time on July 23, the crew began to disassemble the steel plates and pack the accompanying equipment, and after working overnight, they completed the packing work and loaded it onto the truck by 6 a.m. on July 24. After 12 hours of 12 hours of rotation by 2-3 drivers, the truck arrived in Belgium that night and began the intense deconstruction work to be completed on July 25.
For back-to-back races, logistics are crucial, after all, the slightest situation on the road can delay the team's preparation. The most classic is the 2022 season of Ferrari! After the race in the Netherlands on September 4, the team broke down in transit on September 6, which really shocked the team in a cold sweat......
In Azerbaijan that season, the retirement of Leclerc and Sainz directly made the team make the decision to "leave early", because it was followed by back-to-back races in Canada. This also created a classic scene, and before the game was over, Ferrari had already packed up the P room, and there was no sign that the race was still going on......
The most exciting came during the back-to-back races in Mexico and Brazil in the 2021 season, when the local weather in Mexico caused delays in flights to transport the team's supplies, including Ferrari, McLaren, Alfa Romeo and Haas, which had not received the supplies on Wednesday and did not arrive until Thursday local time.
Imagine a situation like this, if it were to appear in the devil's schedule of three races a week, there might be a situation where the team did not wait for supplies until the end of the race. If it really happens, then it's not too much to blindly guess the "nest method......