Sebastian Vettel fears changing the Formula 1 race format would not solve any issues and has urged the sport to look into other♏ options.

Following Daniel Ricciardo’s sup🌟port to shake-up F1 race weekends to have ‘less laps of nonsense’, the Ferrari driver has hit back at the ideꦡa and feels the Grand Prix form🦂at needs to be held on to.

While Vettel accepts fresh concepts and plans are needed to add excitement back into th🌠e sport, he’s urged Liberty Media to look elsewhere from changing race format💃s.

Rumou🎀rs had been growing about introducing a Formula 2-style sprint race on Saturdays, with reverse grids also given consideration to provide closer racing.

“I think the format is fine. I think it’s wrong to look at changing the format,” Vettel said. “It’s not my decision so it’s a bit pointless to💞 talk abo🌱ut it but I wouldn’t be a fan. I think it has been like that for a long time for a reason.

“I think the 300km Grand Prix is a Grand Prix. If you should make it half, then maybe for some people then a boring ꦡrace is only half as boring but that’s not the way I look it.

“I think💃 it’s a challenge, it’s a Grand Prix distance, when you do your first race and you’re surprised by how long the race can be and that’s a physical and mental challenge for that duration and I think it if it becomes a sprint race, I think it would be a different sport in a way. I wouldn’t mess with the format.

“I think we need to find other ways to get excitement and get the g🐲rid together and whatever but not the format.”

Any potent🐼ial F1 race weekend changes would be introduced as part of the major rules overhaul planned for 2021.