AlphaTauri principal Franz Tost has bluntly stated that any race personnel concerned by the 2022 calendar should leave Formula 1. Although the pandemic has slowed Formula 1 in their planned calendar expansion over the past few years, the target is for a record 23-race season to take place in 2022. The calendar is also set to be compressed, with F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali revealing a provisional schedule starting in March and finishing in mid-November rather than December. Understandably, that caused the talk over the strain of such a schedule on staff welfare to return, but Tost does not share such concerns. Arguing that the schedule was just as if not more rigorous in the past due to...
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