多梅尼卡利谈缩短比赛、冲刺赛及F1未来
F1首席执行官斯特凡诺·多梅尼卡利在蒙扎表示，F1不会停下脚步，未来将着眼于技术、赛历、制造商关系、冲刺赛及吸引更年轻观众。他强调F1面临的风险是变得自满。
斯特凡诺·多梅尼卡利谈缩短比赛、冲刺赛与F1的未来
F1首席执行官斯特凡诺·多梅尼卡利就规则、制造商、冲刺赛以及年轻观众等问题阐明了未来的指导方针
一级方程式赛车不想停下来回味这一格外积极的历史阶段的数字。这就是斯特凡诺·多梅尼卡利在蒙扎想要重申的信息，内容涵盖从锦标赛的技术未来到赛历的演变，还涉及与制造商的关系、冲刺赛以及触达越来越年轻的观众群体的必要性。
“风险在于变得自我封闭，”F1的首席执行官解释道。“我们不能满足于今天取得的成功。我们必须继续理解为什么我们能变得如此强大，并保持脚踏实地，要知道我们仍有许多方面可以继续成长。”
核心议题之一涉及未来的规则。F1和国际汽联（FIA）即将开始研究下一代动力单元和单座赛车的特性，而当下的产业环境与现行规则制定时相比已发生了深刻变化。
多梅尼卡利强调：“在讨论我们今天正在经历的规则变革时，似乎未来是由电气化来定义的。但如今情况已不再如此。我们要做的就是理解如何正确地应对和解读这一变化。”
关键在于在大厂商的需求与F1不应完全依赖其产业战略之间找到平衡。“一方面我们必须保证厂商的参与，但另一方面，如果他们的优先级有所不同，我们必须懂得如何做到独立。如果厂商们今天决定离开，我们将面临一个大问题。”
因此，未来有可能转向技术复杂度更低的方案。“一个复杂度更低的项目，显然要在成本和性能目标的前提下，有助于实现独立。”多梅尼卡利还指出了他认为至关重要的两点：“我坚信要把可持续燃料置于技术项目的核心，并朝着更轻的赛车方向前进，因为我们希望看到车手能够真正把一辆必须掌控在他们手中的机器推向极限。”
多梅尼卡利对缩短F1比赛持开放态度
对体育产品本身的更广泛反思也在讨论之中。近几个月浮出水面的想法之一是略微缩短大奖赛的比赛距离，对于这一可能性，多梅尼卡利并没有关上大门。“我的立场非常简单，而且是从一个技术层面的考虑出发的。如果我们说的是，看起来也就是，减少几圈的话，那么在我看来，这也符合年轻人对长篇内容越来越缺乏耐心的趋势。我认为，如果我们说的是减少两三圈，不会有负面影响。如果变成更大幅度的削减，那就是另一回事了，但在这个范围内我不反对。”
这与冲刺赛推出时的理念相同，冲刺赛最初连多梅尼卡利本人也有些疑虑。“作为F1的‘老古董’，当这个方案被提出时，我是第一个持怀疑态度的人。但数据并没有推翻它：推广方、媒体和车迷中的绝大多数都已经接受了这一赛制，并认为它充满活力。”
因此，冲刺赛将继续成为F1的一部分，尽管多梅尼卡利排除了类似MotoGP那样每个周末都设置冲刺赛的情景。“冲刺赛的数量将少于赛事总数的一半，”他明确表示。“年轻人越来越欣赏一种周五就有实质比赛内容的周末形式。老牌车迷——我自己也属于其中——可能对练习赛也感兴趣，但对普通观众来说，周五就有排位赛意味着有更多的内容可看。”
“我必须说实话，这些数字让我感到惊讶，因为它们在强劲增长，”多梅尼卡利说。“基米不仅带来了赛道上的竞争力，还带来了一大批此前从未关注过一级方程式的人。他是一个年轻人，却以一种年轻人特有的轻松姿态面对巨大的责任。他身上有着与他同龄的孩子能够产生共鸣的自然与清新。”
将高峰关注转化为持久成功
然而，多梅尼卡利坚称，有必要将这些关注高峰转化为持久的关系。“我们必须避免这只是一次增长峰值，随后便离我们而去。最大的挑战在于弄清楚如何让那些第一次前来的观众保持联系。有些社群并不了解我们，我们有义务去建立一级方程式文化。”
这一愿景还包括锦标赛在地域上的扩张。多梅尼卡利提到中国、南美、远东和非洲是具有巨大增长空间的地区。“非洲正在给出重要的信号，我们希望很快能就此传达一些重要的消息。”
1993年南非大奖赛上，Hill领先于Zanardi。
最后，还有一个更紧迫的赛历问题，卡塔尔和阿布扎比仍然得到确认，但正处于观察之中。“赛历目前就是你们所知道的那样。我们正在密切关注局势，因为如果不能完全保证安全和可操作性，我们将不得不做出其他决定。各车队完全了解最新情况，与他们的对话是持续不断的。”
因此，即使处于扩张阶段，Domenicali仍将快速反应的能力视为应对未来风险的主要解决方案：“事情变化如此之快，如果你没有能力做出反应，你就会在一瞬间失去大量时间。我们绝不能冒的风险就是停止寻找有能力的人、新鲜的想法和新的视角。当你一直在同一个池塘里钓鱼时，钓到的鱼总是一样的。”
英文原文
Stefano Domenicali on shortening races, sprints and F1’s future
F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali sets out the guidelines for the future on regulations, manufacturers, sprint races and a young audience
Formula 1 does not want to stop and contemplate the numbers of a particularly positive historical phase. This is the message Stefano Domenicali wanted to reiterate at Monza, ranging from the technical future of the championship to the evolution of the calendar, via the relationship with manufacturers, sprint races and the need to reach an increasingly young audience.
“The risk is becoming self-referential,” F1’s CEO explained. “We must not be satisfied with the success we have today. We must continue to understand why we have become so big and keep our feet on the ground, knowing that there are still many dimensions in which we can grow.”
One of the central themes concerns the regulatory future. F1 and the FIA will soon begin to consider the characteristics of the next generation of power units and single-seaters, in an industrial context that has changed profoundly compared to when the current rules were defined.
“When the regulatory change we are experiencing today was addressed, it seemed that the future was defined by electrification. Today that is no longer the case,” Domenicali stressed. “It is up to us to understand how to react and interpret this change in the right way.”
The point is to find a balance between the needs of the major manufacturers and the need for F1 not to depend completely on their industrial strategies. “On the one hand we must guarantee the presence of the manufacturers, but on the other, if they were to have different priorities, we must understand how to manage to be independent. If the manufacturers decided to leave today, we would have a big problem.”
Hence the possibility of moving in the future towards less complex technical solutions. “A less complex project, obviously while respecting cost and performance targets, helps to be independent.” Domenicali also indicated two points he considers fundamental: “I strongly believe in keeping sustainable fuels at the heart of the technological project and in moving towards a lighter car, because we want to see drivers who can really push to the limit a machine that must be in their hands.”
Domenicali is opening to shortening F1 races
Also on the table is a broader reflection on the sporting product. Among the ideas that have emerged in recent months is that of slightly reducing the distance of grands prix, a possibility on which Domenicali has not closed the door. “My position is very simple and starts from a technical consideration. If we are talking, as it seems, about a few laps, for me it also goes in the direction of the fact that young people tend to be less and less present for long things. I don’t think there would be a negative effect if we are talking about reducing by two or three laps. If it became something more significant it would be a different discussion, but in this perspective I am not opposed.”
It is the same philosophy that accompanied the introduction of sprint races, initially met with some perplexity even by Domenicali himself. “I am the first who, as a Formula 1 dinosaur, had doubts when we proposed this. But the data did not contradict it: promoters, media and fans, in the vast majority, have digested the format and consider it dynamic.”
Sprint races will therefore continue to be part of F1, although Domenicali ruled out a scenario similar to MotoGP, with one every weekend. “They will be [at] fewer than half” of the events, he specified. “Young people increasingly appreciate a weekend in which there is already something that counts on Friday. Long-standing fans, and I include myself among them, may also be interested in a practice session, but for the general public having qualifying already on Friday means having more content.”
“I have to tell the truth, the numbers are surprising me because they are growing strongly,” Domenicali said. “Kimi has brought not only competitiveness on track, but also a wave of people who did not follow Formula 1 before. He is a young man who faces an enormous responsibility with a lightness typical of young people. He has a naturalness and freshness in which kids his age can recognise themselves.”
Turning peak interest into lasting success
Domenicali, however, insisted on the need to turn these peaks of attention into a lasting relationship. “We must avoid it being a growth spike that then leaves us. The great challenge is to understand how to keep connected those who show up for the first time. There are communities that do not know us and we have an obligation to build a Formula 1 culture.”
This scenario also includes the geographical expansion of the championship. Domenicali cited China, South America, Far East and Africa as areas with significant room for growth. “Africa is giving important signals on which we want soon to communicate something significant.”
Hill leads Zanardi during the 1993 South African GP
Finally, there remains the issue of the more immediate calendar, with Qatar and Abu Dhabi still confirmed but under observation. “The calendar, at the moment, is the one you know. We are monitoring the situation because, if safety and operability are not guaranteed in full, we will have to take other decisions. The teams are absolutely up to date, the dialogue with them is continuous.”
Even in a phase of expansion, therefore, Domenicali identifies the ability to react quickly as the main solution to future risks: “Things change so quickly that, if you are not able to react, you lose a lot of time in an instant. The risk we must not run is that of stopping looking for competent people, fresh ideas and new points of view. When you keep fishing in the same pond, the fish is always the same.”
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