Following the first sprint weekend of the season and with a second soon to follow, the debate once again raises its head about how best to implement them and whether to keep them all together.

Tweaking them is not an admittance of defeat, it takes time to get these decisions right as F1 qualifying has shown through the decades with the current format consistently providing drama, a factor the sprint is badly lacking.

For a trackside spectator the sprints are great, additional racing instead of practice sessions which can often feature no cars out for long periods, especially if the weather is poor, for those watching on television though its a battle to commit to two qualifying sessions and two races regardless of any reduction.

It would be nice to see more work into making the sprint less of a mini-race, qualifying could be at the end of a second practice session with an old school one-lap shootout with a free track pre-organised, for the race, its harder to create variables without crossing over to too gimmicky but perhaps an idea could be to create tyre offsets?

We have six sprints this season, could each driver have a maximum of two allocations of the soft, mediums and hards to use per sprint event (this would include qualifying and racing on the same compound).

Of course there would be a ‘right way’ to engineer this, a certain tyre providing optimum speed across the laps at each circuit but could it encourage lower teams to gamble? Basically I want to see if a Charles or a Lando could beat Max on a soft tyre if he’s running the hard, especially if they are on the front row and he isn’t, maybe it is too gimmicky still but its worth working them out as we seem to be committed to them, here are the rankings.