The F1 Sprint is a condensed race that takes place over 100km (around 62 miles) and is back on the calendar in 2023 after successful runnings in each of the last two seasons. The sprint race was introduced to spice up certain races, offering venues the chance to effectively have three days of competitive running (Qualifying on Friday, a sprint race on Saturday, race on Sunday) rather than an entire Friday dedicated to practice sessions. The Sprint Shootout is a new session that acts as a standalone qualifying session for the sprint race and takes place prior to the sprint race on the Saturday of the designated race weekend. The Sprint Shootout follows the same three-session knockout format as usual qualifying, but each Q1, Q2, and Q3 segment has been shortened to 12 minutes, 10 minutes, and 5 minutes, respectively. The biggest change to the F1 Sprint race weekends is that drivers have to use certain tires in certain sessions during the Sprint Shootout. In SQ1 and SQ2, medium tires must be used by all the drivers, while soft tires will be used in SQ3. Those tires all need to be new sets as well.