Alpine executive director Marcin Budkowski believes that Formula 1‘s sprint race proposal, or super-qualifying, will add excitement to the race weekend. The F1 Commission voted in favour of introducing some sort of sprint race format last month and speaking at the virtual launch of the Alpine A521 on Tuesday, the Polish engineer explained how it might work in practice. “Sprint races or whatever they’re going to be called, ‘super qualifying’, it’s excitement over three days, really,” he said. “You’re going to qualify on the Friday, we’re going to race on Saturday and race again on Sunday. “We’re going to go a lot less prepared into qualifying. For the fans,...
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