Now it's getting tough!

“Everyone destroyed”: Horror week for Formula 1 stars

Max Verstappen(Bild: Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Now it's getting really tough! In around a week's time, the Formula 1 stars have the night spectacle in Las Vegas on the agenda. A little later, perhaps the toughest race of the season awaits with the heat race in Qatar.

"I've always said that there are quite a lot of races on the calendar - for me, it's mainly the traveling with the different time zones, like now between Vegas and Qatar," said world champion Max Verstappen in an interview with Motorsport-Total.com. "We are now almost flying to the other side of the world again."

What would make more sense for Verstappen
The Formula 1 circus will be on the road for 20 hours, plus an eleven-hour time difference. So a horror week awaits Verstappen and co. "We could do a slightly better job if we have tripleheaders that are a bit closer together, that would make more sense to me. It's something we should probably look at: If we're already doing so many races, that they're closer together then."

"A lot of people got sick"
 The majority of the other drivers have a similar view. "I think everyone was devastated after Vegas. A lot of people got sick because they didn't get any daylight, it was extremely hard," recalls Esteban Ocon. There will be plenty of hardships this year too. So the current calendar planning in Formula 1 is causing little enthusiasm ...