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Formula 1 to ditch Thursday from weekend schedule
Formula 1 race weekends will be reduced from four to just three days from 2021, it has emerged after the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka. A typhoon forced the cancellation of all track activities on Saturday, meaning that the sport is in effect testing the three-day format this weekend. 'I think the two days is enough,' said Daniel Ricciardo. 'There are 22 races next year, and at the moment each race takes five or six days in total, as we arrive in the area on a Tuesday. If the weekend is only two days, it would be much easier to do those 22 races,' he added. Currently, Thursday is ‘media day' in F1, with Friday reserved purely for practice. But Liberty Media wants Friday to be media...
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