The ways F1 can help solve burnout in 2024's 24-race marathon

OPINION: The 22-race Formula 1 season has reached its conclusion, affording teams a welcome opportunity to rest from the rigours of travel. But in the knowledge that an even longer season awaits with three triple headers in 2024, there are measures that F1's bosses can take to help the members of its travelling circus

"Yeah, I'm f***ed," Christian Horner dryly announced to the Autosport Awards attendees at Grosvenor House when asked by emcee Natalie Pinkham if he was tired after a lengthy 2023 Formula 1 season. After all, the Abu Dhabi finale had come to a close just a week prior, with Las Vegas taking place a week before that.

It was a 12-hour timezone swing to get used to between the two rounds while working on an already strange schedule in Las Vegas. And that's not taking into account the time spent in a metal tube crisscrossing several continents, inhaling the other passengers' recycled breaths as winter colds circulate throughout the cabin.

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Author Jake Boxall-Legge

Jake Boxall-Legge Autosport’s Technical Editor. Having studied Automotive Engineering with Motorsport at the University of Hertfordshire, West Country-born Jake's original ambition was to design racing cars. During a year between studies in which he accidentally rekindled a love of writing, he took up a Master's in Motorsport Engineering at Oxford Brookes. Halfway through his master's year, he was offered a place on the Autosport Academy, conducting occasional freelance duties before becoming the press officer for Formula 2 and GP3 in 2018. Autosport offered him a return to the fold later that year to serve as its Technical Editor. His voice appears on a number of videos and podcasts, and can often be found writing about terrible Formula 1 cars in excruciating detail. In his spare time, Jake enjoys baking and blames his failure to make it past the Great British Bake-Off interviews on his tenuous grasp on choux pastry. His dream is to open a brunch cafe - and his willingness to make outrageous puns in inappropriate situations has earned him the contempt of his colleagues.