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Formula One team bosses have warned that adding more races onto the Formula One Calendar would cause them staffing problems.
The current schedule of 21 races already leaves many teams stretched, and any more races would lead to team needing to hire more staff, of course at an additional cost.
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"I think we are at the limit already so if there would be more races, we would have to have a rotating system with staff people," said McLaren's Eric Boullier. "And no, we don’t have reserve people back in the factory so that means we would have to hire some people."
Toro Rosso team principal Franz Tost agreed, saying that his team would need to introduce a staff rotation scheme to negate any potential issues, but admitted that income from extra races would offset any costs from hiring more staff.
"I think that 20/21 races is quite a good number and if additional races come onto the calendar we also would have to think of a rotating system to bring in more people, because otherwise it’s difficult to handle everything but if we have more races, we also have more income and therefore it shouldn’t be a problem," he said. "In the end, there must be a profit for the teams otherwise it doesn’t make sense."
Manor's Dave Ryan said that any problems that could arise from having more races would depend on whether the race weekend format changes.
"I go back to the days when we had 14 races and that was too many so twenty-one feels like it’s too many but if they’re talking 25 races, I guess it depends what the package is," he admitted. "Maybe they are two-day events, maybe it’s a different format. Again, until we know what they really are asking for or what they’re thinking of, it may be that it works or not. We just have to wait and see."
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