Every little thing you’ll want to find out about Formulation 1’s Dash weekend format for 2025.
When and the place are the Dash weekends?
Six of F1’s 24 race weekends once more run to the Dash format within the 2025 season:
Spa-Francorchamps (which beforehand staged one in 2023) has changed Austria because the 12 months’s third Dash occasion, whereas the opposite 5 venues are unchanged.
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Sky F1’s Simon Lazenby explains why the Dash format is so essential within the season.
What’s Dash?
The Dash format – with a short-form Saturday race as its centrepiece – was added to the F1 schedule at choose occasions from the 2021 season in a bid to additional boost the motion on tracks recognized to be good for overtaking, whereas additionally making certain there was aggressive monitor periods for followers attending the circuit and watching on TV on all three days of the race weekend.
Initially launched at simply three venues per season earlier than rising to 6 from 2023, such weekends characteristic a rejigged schedule to regular with the Dash having its personal qualifying session on Friday and earlier than a 100km race on Saturday, through which essential further world championship factors are on supply.
What’s the Dash weekend format?
There aren’t any modifications in comparison with 2024.
Dash weekends start with a single free observe session on Friday, which as ordinary lasts for one hour.
Dash Qualifying will then observe in a while Friday.
Saturday then open with the 100km Dash contest, with full Qualifying following later within the day, setting the grid for the Grand Prix on Sunday.
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Watch Dash highlights from the Qatar Grand Prix in 2024
How does Dash Qualifying work?
The Friday session to set the Dash grid will observe the identical format as final season, with every of its three components working to the identical knockout guidelines as full qualifying however to shorter durations to handle engine and tyre considerations.
- SQ1 is 12 minutes
- SQ2 is 10 minutes
- SQ3 is eight minutes
The preliminary purpose is that every automobile would solely have one flying lap in every session, though two runs might be accomplished in SQ1 whereas SQ2 and SQ3 do permit time for 2 timed laps and not using a pitstop in between makes an attempt.
The opposite vital distinction between Dash Qualifying and full Qualifying are restrictions on tyre utilization within the former.
Whereas drivers are free to make use of any of their out there tyres in common qualifying, within the Dash Shootout they’re solely allowed to run one set of tyres in every half.
A brand new set of medium tyres are necessary in SQ1 and SQ2, whereas a set of soppy tyres is necessary in SQ3, however they do not need to be new.
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Watch Dash Qualifying highlights from the Qatar Grand Prix in 2024
What’s the level methods for the Dash?
Factors for the Dash in 2025 stay unchanged.
A complete of 36 factors are on supply for the highest eight finishers in Saturday’s race. That is allotted as follows:
- 1st place – 8 factors
- 2nd place – 7 factors
- third place – 6 factors
- 4th place – 5 factors
- fifth place – 4 factors
- sixth place – 3 factors
- seventh place – 2 factors
- eighth place – 1 level
And the additional factors by the season actually might be essential: Max Verstappen in 2023 turned the primary driver to clinch a world title in a Dash on the Saturday in Qatar.
Are there pit stops within the Dash?
Pit stops are few and much between given how quick a Dash is.
Not like the Grand Prix, there isn’t any necessary change of tyres required and, until automobiles undergo injury or puncture or it rains, do not count on them to go away the motion on monitor for the pit lane between lights out and the chequered flag.
Drivers are free to run on no matter tyre compound – exhausting, medium or mushy – that they want.
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Highlights of the Dash from the Sao Paulo Grand Prix in 2024
How usually can groups change their automobiles between periods?
Because the present Dash schedule was adopted, groups have had a second alternative to make set-up modifications to their automobiles by the weekend.
Vehicles nonetheless go into parc ferme when the primary aggressive session – Friday’s Dash Qualifying – begins, however they’re then launched from the restrictions after Saturday’s Dash.
Groups have the prospect to make use of the information they’ve gained to change setups forward of full Qualifying, at first of which they are going to as soon as extra be locked in for Sunday’s race.
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