00:00 There will be many changes in 2024 sporting regulations, but probably the most interesting
00:22 or the one with the biggest impact is the one related to the different format that we
00:27 will face in the six sprint weekends that are scheduled for 2024.
00:33 Since a while among teams with F1, with FIA, we have been discussing possible modifications
00:40 to these weekends in order to make them as attractive as possible for fans that were
00:46 already enjoying, but there is always room to improve and also to make them more challenging
00:51 for teams.
00:53 We thought that a possible modification could have been to make the weekend a bit more linear,
00:59 so what we will see in 2024 is a weekend starting again with a free practice session as in 2023,
01:07 but immediately after we will have the sprint qualifying.
01:10 We will not have any longer the qualify for Sunday, but we will enter already in Friday
01:15 afternoon in the sprint part of the weekend with the sprint race in the morning of Saturday.
01:22 Sprint quali and sprint race will be kept by a Parfume phase one.
01:28 This Parfume will end after the sprint race, allowing teams and drivers to work eventually
01:35 on the cars to be prepared for the quali that will be on the afternoon or the second day
01:41 of running, where another Parfume period will start, ending with the race on Sunday.
01:49 Another modification that will be for sure interesting for the fans and a slightly different
01:55 approach required for the teams is about Sunday, where the grid will open 40 minutes before
02:01 the scheduled time of formation lap.
02:05 We were used to 50 minutes.
02:07 And also the usage of DRS.
02:08 DRS will be enabled one lap after the race start or one lap after the restart of the
02:15 race.
02:16 Last year was two laps in the normal weekends.
02:19 Also we have reviewed the allocation of wet tyres.
02:23 We will move from four sets of intermediates and three sets of extreme tyres to five and
02:29 two.
02:31 And there are also points that are still under discussion that most likely will not be included
02:37 in the sport regulation, but will be addressed with directive for the stewards and the director
02:43 notes event by event.
02:45 I'm referring to traffic management during qualifying or track limits infringement and
02:53 possible action to mitigate the downside of these happenings.
03:04 Second part of 2023 season has shown in our opinion a positive path.
03:10 The trend was of improvement.
03:13 Nevertheless, analysing our races and our season, we realised that there were some things
03:20 missing.
03:22 For sure we have not been opportunistic enough.
03:25 We left behind too many points.
03:28 Main target of the whole team is obviously to score as many points as possible.
03:34 And this happens only if you have a fast car.
03:37 Now whatever car you have, execution comes to play and you have to execute properly.
03:43 We had many reliability issues, some mistakes, problem of communication and these are operation
03:51 side the topics that we are trying to take over winter with preparation, with revised
03:57 procedures, with different method of preparing the weekend and the execution of the sessions.
04:05 2024 is going to be the longest F1 season ever.
04:25 We will have 24 races and the last will be the 8th of December.
04:30 So it will be very challenging and stressful for our people.
04:36 Already since some years we have been trying to rotate the track personnel and this has
04:43 already paid off.
04:45 We are going to do the same even more in the coming season, trying to maximise the performance
04:53 throughout all the year of our people but also trying to make it more sustainable for
04:58 them, allowing some time to rest.
05:01 This is not coming for free.
05:04 You need to be organised, you need to be prepared, you need to accept that this rotation is also
05:11 including a different level of preparation and a different level of information exchange
05:20 among all the team.
05:23 But this we think is the way to go also for the future.
05:26 Thank you.
05:26 [END]
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