Major fluctuations of the racing village formula 1: The unprecedented movement to North America

Death the old values

Paul Ricard, a racetrack in France with Spa-Francorchamps (Belgium) and Circuit de Monaco (Monaco Cong Quoc), are facing the prospect of being wiped out from the schedule of the 1-year-2023 formula racing tournament.

All three racecourse above will end the contract with F1 after 2022. And currently, the new owner of the F1 tournament – Liberty Media Group is making a major movement.

Very simple, Liberty Media Corporation is a US mass media company run by President John Malone. As an inevitable, Liberty Media is making a “rotation” to the North American market. And to concretize that plan, in 2023, the United States will have 3 Grand Prix, besides Miami and Austin, the Las Vegas light capital.

Since the acquisition of F1 from businessman Bernie Ecclestone, Liberty Media has carried out many reforms to increase the attraction, revenue from the most prestigious racing in the world. Next year, the fee for organizing a race will increase significantly.

Moreover, the American Group is ready to throw places despite its long -standing, reputation but do not bring revenue into the trash. Potential, fertile markets like Grand Prix in China, Qatar will return next year.

If you keep the system available and integrate more races in China, Qatar and Las Vegas, F1 in 2023 has 25 races. This figure has originally eliminated Grand Prix in Russia because of its special military campaign in Ukraine. But that is too much, violating the 24 -stage agreement that Liberty has achieved with the racing teams as well as the ranks of riders.

FIA cannot prioritize France?

The International Automobile Federation (FIA) is currently headquartered in Concorde Square, Paris, France. Therefore, Fia faced a dilemma. Because, Grand Prix in France is at risk of liquidating the highest contract by 2023. In that case, FIA really did not know what to say to French officials.

But considering in 3 Paul Ricard racecourse (France), Spa-Francorchamps (Belgium) as well as Circuit de Monaco (Cong Quoc Monaco), the Grand Prix near Marseille is considered to be the highest risk. In terms of reputation, Grand Prix in Monaco eats the opponent. In terms of the attractiveness of the track, Spa-Francorchamps has outstanding advantages. Paul Ricard has no advantage to compare, except for it held in a large country in Europe.

Saying that does not mean the remaining 2 races are really safe. Racing teams, riders and including operators are not satisfied with the size of the track in Monaco. This is the race held on people’s streets, attracting a large number of NHM. The disadvantage of “deadly” of Circuit de Monaco is too small, many dangerous bends. Meanwhile, the trend of F1 is racing cars increasing in size.

Zak Brown, Director of the McLaren team, is the latest person who complains about the size of Monaco racetrack: “I think Monaco needs to offer similar trade terms like other large Grand Prix. Moreover, they also need to adjust the racing tracks by today’s F1 racing cars are increasing in size, making the race here become more difficult.”

But why is Grand Prix in France underestimated? In fact, France did not host the F1 for nearly a decade, although this was the “birth” place to race. It was not until 2018 that Grand Prix in the Luc Lang country returned to F1.

Therefore, Paul Ricard was forced to wait for FIA’s ruling, and tried to seriously do the problems at Spa-Francorchamps. The Belgian racetrack was eliminated in 2003 and 2006, because the surrounding infrastructure did not meet F1 standards.