Around the world, countless sports are looking for new ways to attract younger audiences, with many pundits arguing that shorter attention spans should necessitate the addition of things like pitch clocks for the MLB. But in Formula 1, race duration should not be a consideration.

But the 2025 Italian Grand Prix — the shortest fully completed event in F1 history — proves that duration has absolutely no bearing on race quality. The problem is much, much deeper.

Italian Grand Prix: Short race, short on action

The first four laps of the 2025 Italian Grand Prix were chock full of drama. Polesitter Max Verstappen held his line into the first chicane, leaving the McLaren of Lando Norris to take a trip into the grass on the front straight. Verstappen then cut the chicane, forcing him to gi

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