F1 commission approves sprint format changes

Friday has one free practice followed by a sprint qualifying 'shootout'.

The 100km race will then be held on Saturday morning before qualifying for the main Sunday grand prix.

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I'll trade sprint races for an Andretti team, can we do that?
- Best I can do is TWO Andretti teams.
Yay, I can ignore the Friday sessions again.
So having only one free practice before parc ferme no longer allowing for setup changes isn't addressed at all with this change, right?
I thought the reason they didn't do this before is that if you have a bad crash during the sprint you're then fucked for qualifying, right?
- Yes but apparently they now think that has to be taken as a risk in order to change the format
  
  I wonder if this will cause much less risk-taking in the sprint, or if they'll change it back after an incident in the sprint ruins someone's whole weekend

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