F1 is set to announce the calendar for next season on Friday, with it expected to start in March with 𒅌Bahrain and end in November at th🍬e Yas Marina Circuit.

Wiꦬth the FIFA World Cup in Qatar tak🤪ing place in the winter, it appears F1 is keen to avoid a clash in December hence the earlier finish.

With a record amount of races squished into a smal♈ler time frame, there have been concerns about the welf🌳are of teams and their personnel.

Speaking during the Turkish Grand Prix w🎉eekend, 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 on you learn and you do some things 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 be♑hind us we can look at the calendar and minimise or even get rid of all the triple headers. 

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

Ferrari’s Laurent Mekies said it was importa⛄nt the teams are ‘flexible’ due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the challenges th🐼at it brings.

“I think Otmar explained it very well,” he added. “I think it is clear it is very challe🌸nging for Formula 1 to put a great calendar together in the context of the COVI🌼D-19 pandemic. 

“So in that context we obviously understand that there needs to be a level of flexibility from the teams which is why weღ 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 s💟ee how to move forward 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 ꦰthe pandemic is out of the radar.”

According to RaceFans, F1 will head to Azerbaijan before g🧔oing to𒁃 Canada 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 pꦇossible to have countries host races that ar꧃e close to each other.

“To create the calendar is really a difficult topic,” Tost explained. “It’s not only regarding to the geographical side, to the logistics. 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.&nbs𓆏p;

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