Zak Brown wants F1 to dedicate four spots on the calendar to rotating races with 20 permanent tracks and a further eight alternating year-on-year.
The schedule has been an intense source of debate in the paddock with multiple drivers expressing their frustration.
The growth of the sport in recent years has caused the schedule to balloon in size. Races have been added in Jeddah, Miami and Las Vegas with a street race in Madrid to come in 2026.
The intense workload has pushed drivers, teams and paddock personnel to breaking point.
However, F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali is set that 24 races will be the ideal schedule size moving forward and with a host of new countries pushing for spots on the calendar, traditional, purpose-built circuits are now being shuffled out.
Brown has proposed a solution to F1’s schedule conundrum. “Formula One and the FIA are very collaborative and consultative on everything Formula One,” he explained.
“I think we have very good sessions with them. As far as the calendar goes, I think 24 is max.
“As I've said before, I think maybe having 20 fixed races and eight races that rotate every other year so we can continue to grow the sport because there's definitely demand.
So if we can be in 28 markets, I think that would be fantastic. But I think we can only do that 24 times a year. So I think that's how you solve kind of the growing calendar.”
While this solution will offer new opportunities for countries such as South Africa, Rwanda, South Korea and Thailand to host Grands Prix, it will not solve the problems at the heart of the issue.
Max Verstappen has made his stance clear - the physically draining 24-race calendar will bring forward his F1 retirement date unless changed. “It is too many for me but we just have to deal with it,” he said earlier this season.
“I think it is a bit more logical the way that it is planned at least, I guess that is better for everyone.
But more things will have to come together for me to make my mind up over whether I stay longer (than 2028) or not. But I think that these things are definitely not helping for sure.”
In a double dose of frustration for Verstappen, his home race is one of those in danger of being consigned to the race rotation line-up.
The Dutch Grand Prix has struggled to negotiate a long-term deal with F1 and is in danger of dropping off the calendar entirely, along with the events in Barcelona and Spa-Francorchamps.
