F1 practice sessions will ൲be shortened to a single 🦹hour of running during Fridays across the 2021 season.

In an update to the 2021 FIA sporting regulations, 🐓the opening two practice sessions held on Fridays will be trimmed by 30 minutes next season, with FP1 and FP2 lasting one hour each.

Previously, both sessions have taken place over 90 minutes, before a 60-minute final practice session is held ahead of qualifyi🐎ng on Saturday꧑ morning.

FP3 and the rest of the race weekend will remain unchanged, but ꦫteams and the drivers will have an hour less to practice for grands prix next year.

Article 32.1 of next year’s sporting rules states: “Two free practice sessions (P1 and P2), each lasting one hour and separated by at least twoꦓ and a half hours, will take place on the second day of the Event.”

Additionally, FP3 must take place no less than 19 hours after F⛎P2 - an increase from 18 and a half hou൲rs.

F1 has been evaluating ways to cutback grand prix weekends as the calendar continues to grow, with the 2021 F1 calendar includin🐎g a record 23 races and featuring three triple-header even🍃ts.

During the 2020 season, F1 experimented♕ with a shorter weekend format at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, with no running on Friday and♔ just a single 90-minute practice session held on Saturday morning at Imola prior to qualifying. 

The curfew period on Thursday and Friday night at events in 2021 will also be extended from eight hours to nine hours, beginni𓄧ng 12 hours before the start of FP1 and FP3 respectively. 

As they did in 2020, Pirelli will continue to supply teams with the same allocation of ty🧔re compounds.

The 2021 F1 ꧋season is sꩲcheduled to begin with the Australian Grand Prix on 21 March.