F1 has confirmed that next season the sprint race format will be used at the meetings in China, Miami, Austria, Austin, Brazil and Qatar. This year qualifying for the grand prix took place on Friday, with sprint qualifying and the sprint race on a Saturday. The proposal would be to use a reverse grid from sprint qualifying, either for the whole field or potentially just the top ten, for the sprint race. This too is expected to be changed to allow the cars to be worked on after the sprint race and before qualifying to adapt better to expected full race conditions.

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