BMW driver Nick Heidfeld has called for the Formula One’s governing bodies to include more races and less testing on the F1 calendar.
This season has 18 races, one more than last season’s 17, while next year will see the calendar increase to 19 with the inclusion of a race in India.
“Though I wouldn’t mind missing one or two tests. Actually the tests have been reduced quite a lot over the last two or three years, but I hope we have more races because there is not one that I don’t like.”
With Malaysia, Bahrain and China having been added to the schedule in the past ten years, Formula One has already taken on a more cosmopolitan appearance, and Heidfeld is already anticipating the latest additions.
“I’m looking forward to going to India and the other interesting new places currently being discussed,” the 31-year old commented as he begins his preparations for the first of this year’s new races, the European Grand Prix on the streets of Valencia.
With Singapore still to come in 2008, the F1 calendar continues to expand, but Heidfeld laments the loss of one event to have dropped off the schedule in recent years.
“I think it’s a pity that we don’t race in America any more because, for me, Formula One - being a world championship - should race everywhere in the world,” he opined, “But I think there’s a good chance we will go to the States in the future.”
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