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What’s a dash race in F1 and the way does qualifying shootout work?
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What’s a dash race in F1 and the way does qualifying shootout work?

By Miles Cooper March 21, 2025
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The primary of six dash weekends this 12 months takes place this weekend on the .

The dash was first launched in 2021 at Silverstone as a method of creating extra periods over the course of the weekend aggressive, with the goal of driving curiosity in . In 2021 and 2022, there have been three sprints a 12 months.

The 2023 season launched a brand new format. The variety of dash races have been doubled to 6, whereas Saturday was designed ‘dash day’ – with a brand new “dash shootout” qualifying session figuring out the grid for the dash race.

As well as, the results of the dash race had no bearing on the on Sunday.

Nevertheless, the format was tweaked once more in 2024 in order that dash qualifying passed off on Friday afternoon as a substitute of grand prix qualifying.

How does the dash race work?

The F1 Fee and the authorised a to the dash format final 12 months.

The order of play sees the ‘dash qualifying’ happen on Friday afternoon as a substitute of a second observe session, with conventional qualifying in its ordinary spot on Saturday afternoon.

It means there can be only one observe session over the course of the weekend, whereas Saturday is now not designated as a ‘dash day’.

The results of the Saturday morning dash – a 100km sprint, roughly a 3rd of the gap of the grand prix – won’t impression the grid for Sunday. Factors can be awarded to the top-eight, as was the case in 2023 and 2024.

The dash race consequence won’t have any impression on the grand prix qualifying on Saturday or the grand prix on Sunday.

Dash qualifying will comply with the identical Q1-Q2-Q3 format however the session occasions can be shorter than conventional qualifying: SQ1 (medium tyres) can be 12 minutes, SQ2 (medium tyres) can be 10 minutes and SQ3 (gentle tyres) can be eight minutes.

SPRINT WEEKEND FORMAT

Friday: Free Apply 1; dash qualifying (for Saturday’s dash race)

Saturday: Dash race (Prime-eight obtain factors, end order has no impression on grand prix grid); Grand Prix qualifying

Sunday: Grand Prix

What’s a dash race in F1 and the way does qualifying shootout work?

What number of factors are on supply within the dash race?

P1 – Eight factors

P2 – Seven factors

P3 – Six factors

P4 – 5 factors

P5 – 4 factors

P6 – three factors

P7 – two factors

P8 – one level

What number of dash races are there this season?

In addition to China, 5 different venues will host a dash weekend: Miami, Belgium, USA, Brazil and Qatar.

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