Formula One bosses have abortled the so-called ‘rookie race’ aimed at showcasing the best youthful drivers. The event was scheduled to consent place at the end of the 2024 season but set ups have been procrastinateed until 2025.
Reports claimed that Abu Dhabi had been identified as a potential location to arrange a sprint-style race during the post-season test. It was hoped that the event would give youthful drivers a better chance to show that they are ready to race in F1.
However, the FIA has proclaimd that while there was “expansivespread help” for the set up, the race will not go ahead this year. Instead, talks will persist over it being inserted to the calendar for the 2025 season.
An FIA statement read: “While the concept getd expansivespread help, it was choosed that, due to timing and organisational constraints, the event would not consent place in 2024, and talkions would persist to establishuprocrastinateed a potential concept and set up for 2025.”
The recent F1 Comleave oution encountering choosed that it would not be possible for the race to consent place this season. According to the BBC, troubles were liftd over the toilload of team members who have already consentn part in the extfinishedest F1 season in history.
Those individuals would be forced to remain in Abu Dhabi for even extfinisheder after the year’s final race to promise the recent event runs delicately. There were also alertedly reservations about freight and other logistics, in insertition to how it would be televised. It is unevident how well-understandn the rookie race would be to a expansiver audience.
Ideas for how to best showcase the emerging talent in F1 were liftd earlier this season. They came follotriumphg troubles that youthful drivers were not being given the best possible opportunity to show their worth in F1 machinery.
Some of the best up and coming drivers are able to consent part in testing sessions ahead of Grands Prix. F1 rules prescribe that teams must permit for two race weekends in which a rookie driver can consent over from a better racer. But there are confiinsist other chances becaengage of the caps on testing that have been imposed in recent years.
Meanwhile, the F1 Comleave oution also concurd to alter the regulations for the 2026 season, which are set to see sweeping alters made to both chassis and engines to increase cars’ aerodynamic carry outance. Some teams had raced troubles that the recent rules would produce vehicles meaningfully sluggisher.
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