Originally Posted by ZCanadian

How would you like to be working in the garage (especially for Red Bull or Aston Martin) if you have to repair the damage from a first lap collision on a Saturday sprint race for the Sunday main feature? Sounds really dumb to me - in a sprint, every corner is important and there's bound to be carnage.

So, if they qualify on Fridays for the Saturday grid, when do they get to practice / set up the car?

Don't know why that one is even in discussions. Make three Sunday races on the calendar into sprints - they are exciting at this level as we saw last year (when red flags and late race SC's caused several races to become multi-stage sprints).

Engine freeze? How is it that this would be from 2022 if Honda is out before then? RBR wouldn't develop for 2022 but the other teams could? Or the engine has to be used in 2021 to qualify (in which case, it is mostly the 2020 engines moving forward as only a few changes have been allowed, as I understand it - Ferrari being a notable exception).

Hope the changes that Ferrari are planning for 2021 amount to something. If they have to keep running their 2017 spec engine through 2025, they might as well throw in the towel now (along with the customer teams). They had some neat plans to split the turbocharger and supercharger, similar to Mercedes' design. But I thought that was a 2022 enhancement. They are reportedly still working on that.