McLaren boss Andreas Seidl has stressed that triple-headers cannot become the standard inꦦ future Formula 1 seasons following a relentless run of races at the start of the 2020 campaign.

The season was heavily delayed by the coronavirus pandemic and as a direct result the revised 17-ꦏround calendar has been significantly condensed, with the opening nine races taking place within a🉐n 11-week period.

In order to get the season off the ground and meet the minimum eight rounds required to validate a world championship campaign, F1 began the season with three triple-header events in a r💮ow, with only a weekend off between each triple-header.

Such a packed schedule has stretched teams and their personn▨el to the limit and Seidl admit༒ted he is relieved that a "more normal" run of races - featuring standalone events and only one back-to-back and one triple-header - is left to complete this year.

"This is pro🌺bably the mo🅷st intense schedule we ever had with nine races in 11 weeks,” Seidl explained.

“It was very demanding and was definiꦜtely wearing out our people. So I💙’m really happy and thankful for how everyone in the team was pushing through this period.

“Together with the people from home and the factory, they had to go flat-out in order to ensure yo🥀u always had the logistics in place and the parts in place to do the races and in parallel, g🃏o flat-out in terms of the development of the car.

“We will try to give some people from the race team some rest and then at the en💮d of week we have to pack everything again for the freight which💎 then leaves to go to Russia.

“It is good that at least for somꦕe weeks we go back to a ‘more normal’ racing schedule. Hopefully it makes it more sustainable for our guys.

“I think it’s very important that we are all fully clear, together with Formula 1 also, that what we do this year is acceptable 🧜because everyone understands we are under special circumstances but that can’t be the way forward to have triple headers as the standard."

F1 was origin🐈ally meant to have a record 22-race calendar thi🌠s year and Liberty Media is keen to expand the schedule further to something closer to 25 events a season in the coming years.

Seidl is not alone in highlighting his concerns about triple-headers,ꦡ with Racing Point chief Otmar Szafnauer saying they are simply “not🍷 sustainable”.

“I ജthink multiple triple-headers are not sustainable,” Szafnauౠer said.

“We’re doing🐈 them this year but if I were to tell all the mechanics that this is how it’s going to be, going forward, I think they would choose to do𒈔 something else.”

Haas team principal Guenther Steiner agreed with his fellow team bosses, adding: “We had a few months not doing so mu🐷ch in the beginning of the year... but doing it going forward as a standard I don’t think it’s a good idea.”