WHAT ELSE IS NEW?

IS THE CALENDAR TOO MASSIVE NOW?

With 23 races on the bill, F1’s 2022 calendar is the largest yet. It’s not the longest, however, with those 23 rounds stuffed into an eight-month window, necessitating the use of seven double-headers and two triple-headers to complete the exhausting schedule.

Following their respective COVID-enforced layoffs, the Australian, Canadian, Japanese and Singapore Grands Prix make provisional returns to the calendar, although Australia concedes its usual status of season-opener to Bahrain. The Turkish and Portuguese races are (for the moment, depending on the whims of a pandemic) off the table after their admirable stints as replacement rounds, and the Red Bull Ring will host just one race. Qatar also takes the year off as it focuses on shoehorning the FIFA World Cup into the winter months.

The United States has finally, following the failure of the expected New Jersey race in 2013, put together a second round for this year’s championship, with Miami hosting F1’s newest event around the Hard Rock