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Triple header races 'unsustainable' for F1

Sep.21 Triple header Formula 1 races are "unsustainable" for the future of the sport. That is the claim of Racing Point boss Otmar Szafnauer, after an unprecedented run of nine grands prix in 2020 with just three 'non race' weekends in the same period. "Everyone knows why we have to do that this season," he told Speed Week. "But if we told our people that this was the future too, I think the mechanics would run away. "These sequences of three races in three weeks is unsustainable." McLaren boss Andreas Seidl agrees: "I'm glad that the coming weeks will be a little more normal. "This period of nine races in 11 weeks has been more intense than...
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