F1 is set to announce the cale♏ndar for next s♊eason on Friday, with it expected to start in March with Bahrain and end in November at the Yas Marina Circuit.

With the FIFA World Cup in Qatar taking place in the winter, it appears F1 is keen ܫto avoid a clash in December heᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚnce the earlier finish.

With a 🍷record amount of races squi♌shed into a smaller time frame, there have been concerns about the welfare of teams and their personnel.

Speaking during the Turkish Grand Prix weekend, Aston 🧸Martin’s Otmar Szafnauer isn’t concerned by the expected number of triple headers🧸 due to the season finishing in November, rather than December.

“Well, the first time you do a triple-header it’s all new and then from there o𝔍n you learn and you do some thi♊ngs to make the triple headers easier,” he said. “However, they still are very taxing on all of us. We have two of them next year and hopefully after the pandemic is truly behind us we can look at the calendar and minimise or even get rid of all the triple headers. 

“The nice thing next year is that we start mid-March and finish mid-November, which gives us a decent wi♈nter break. You can put up with a triple-header or𝔍 two if you know you are not racing up until Christmas.”

Ferrari’s Laurent Mekies said it was important the teams are ‘flexible’ due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the chal💧lenges that it brings.

“I think Otmar ex꧅plained it very well,” he added. “I think it is clear it is very challenging for Formula 1 to put a great calendar together in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

“So in that context we obviously understand that there needs to be a level of flexibility from the teams which is why we just have to cope with these triple headers now and then once, hopefully, the pandemic is out of the way we will sit down again and see how to move fo💟rward as it’s probably the aspect that is the most taxing for the race team. 

“Hopefully 🅺it will be the first thing that will go away once the pandemic is out of the 𝄹radar.”

According to RaceFans, F1 will head to Azerbaijan before going to Ca𓆉nadaꦺ in mid-June - to venues that are thousands of miles apart.

AlphaTauri’s Franz Tost sympathised with organisers and explained why it’s not always possible to have countries host races that are close to each otheꦜr.

“To create the calendar is really a difficult topic,” Tost explained. “It’s not only regarding to the geographical side, to the logisticsꩲ. It depends on the different countries, they have other events over there where you can’t come then with a Formula 1 event, or holidays or other things that have to 🅰be taken into consideration. 

“Therefore, it is quite complicated to make such a calendar and I think that 🅷Stefano [Domenicali] and FOM have optimized everything in the best possible way.”