The struggle between Red Bull e Ferrari continues. The Austrian team is coming off a series of consecutive successes, having also capitalized on mistakes and problems Maranello team in that Canada he raised his head. There tension rises, also following the debate on the porpoising theme, and for this reason there is always great attention to the words of the protagonists during the race weekend. There press conference, has become a real speech, in which i temi there are many, including performance, problems reliability and rivalry. Updates from the teams are expected at Silverstone but it won't be the only news we'll see.
La Formula 1 recently has embraced various innovations, including the one already tested last year, of sprint qualifications, also confirmed in 2022. Although some choices on the format of the race weekend were appreciated, one in particular was not convincing most of the protagonists of the paddock, who would have pushed to return to traditions, already this season.
From Silverstone the weekend format will change again for report the press conference of the pilots at Thursday, but in a totally different way. Let's find out which one.
Return to traditions
In 2022 not only have the technical regulations, with the return of ground effect single-seaters and other innovations. Also other more traditional aspects related to weekend schedule have changed. One of the innovations, which did not find everyone's support in Circus, was the moving of the rectory press conference from Thursday, to Friday, just before starting the actual track activity with free practice. The format planned for this season was intended to be a compromise among the requests of pilots, more interested in the rest of the track activities, and the requests of media, to make the weekend more attractive.
What changes from Silverstone
La Formula 1 it would come to a compromise which should make everyone agree. Da Silverstone indeed, the press conference will return on Thursday but it will do so with a different format than last year, more similar to that of 2019. On Thursday we'll see two groups of 5 pilots each who will be available to the press for about 1 hour. Everything is fine group, in fact, will have a available 30 minutes and the switch between the two groups will last approximately 5 minutes. There FIA he also specified that the conference of the Team Principals, will not undergo any changes, and will remain scheduled for Saturday morning. But what will the other drivers do?
I pilots not chosen for the conference they will be able to dedicate themselves to other activities with the media, organized by the respective stables. TO Silverstone, the first event to welcome this change, theprinting activity will begin pm 14pm – local time, 00pm Italian time – on Thursday 15 June.
Source: Sky Sports F1
