Eddie Jordan highlights the ‘severe impact’ of ‘too many races’ on F1 calendar

F1 pundit and former team boss Eddie Jordan believes there are simply too many races on the calendar nowadays, and highlighted the importance of the summer break.

Formula 1 will awaken from its summer slumber in a few days’ time, with the teams and drivers preparing for the second half of the season to begin at Zandvoort for the Dutch Grand Prix.

With 12 races done, there are still 10 races between now and season end, a gruelling schedule despite the cancellation of both the Chinese and Emilia Romagna Grands Prix.

Eddie Jordan: F1 has too many races

Next season will see the calendar expand even further, with 24 races scheduled for a record-breaking schedule of events. There is precious little downtime during the season, with three triple-headers also set to feature, and former team boss Eddie Jordan believes the calendar is now at the point of causing problems for those working in the sport.

“It’s nice to have a break,” Jordantold the Formula For Success podcastduring the summer shutdown.

“I think it’s important for [people in] Formula 1 to recharge themselves. I’m a real, real fan of taking time out for children when they’re away from school and holidays and stuff like that.

“我只是觉得that we have too many races. It’s putting a very severe impact on the physical and mental [health] and all sorts of requirements that people [have] and [people] working in Formula 1 need to recharge their batteries.

“I just feel that this is hugely important, and I hope they all enjoy it.”

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With co-host David Coulthard pointing out that the calendar is tougher on the likes of rank-and-file mechanics and engineers who are involved in the running of the cars, rather than the drivers or team bosses, Jordan said that, if he still operated a team, he would have already divided his workforce in two.

“At this stage, I would have split the team into two halves,” he said.

“One half is designing and creating and building and thinking about next year’s car, because the progress… it just never stops.

“So we’re thinking about the autoclave, we’re thinking about putting stuff in a wind tunnel for next year.

“Let’s not lose sight of that, because this is where the teams are really, really up against it that they have to perform for now and to finish out the season to get the best that they possibly can, but also to think about the future.”

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