2024 F1 Season Set For Record Number Of Races In The Year

The 2024 F1 calendar is expected to have a record-breaking 24 races, but teams are calling for better organization and reduced travel, while F1 strives to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030.

The 2024 F1 calendar is shaping up to be a thrilling but long season for racing enthusiasts with a record-breaking 24 races scheduled. Admitting that this will most certainly take a toll on staff, the president of Liberty Media has confirmed the next year of racing. 

"We have a calendar, some of which [for] historical reasons, [has] gotten to 24. It does drain people and there's a lot of travel," the company said. 

24 races is one hell of a show within a single year, and this is only made worse by the apparent disorganization of when and where each race takes place and the travelling between them. George Russell has admitted this is a focus from drivers and teams, with them pushing for a more optimised calendar, because not only does it make it harder for teams, but its environmental impact is also huge. 

F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali has also commented on the necessity of a more efficient calendar but added that it isn't as easy as it sounds. 

"Of course, every single promoter has some reasons to have a certain weekend, a certain opportunity.

"We try to make sure that in the year after year, we have a quite leaner approach, as much as we can, in order to minimize the movement. Because of course we have a very ambitious target with our carbon neutrality 2030, that has a big effect.

“We are a world championship, we are not doing it in the one single region, we’re moving it all around the world. So we take that very seriously.”

On top of this, he's also admitted that promoters of each race don't want the calendar to be logistically efficient, adding that they don't want to compete in ticket sales for tracks grouped closer together:

“We’re going to try to be as effective as we can in order to minimise the ups and downs from different regions, different countries,” he said.

“Of course, knowing that we cannot have, for example, four races in a row in the same continent because we’re going to have a problem commercially and for other reasons.

“But for sure there is a lot of attention in this subject in order to develop the calendar the best way that we can.

He ended:

“There’s no secret that next year the objective is to have 24 races.”