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# Video: How reversed-grids in F1 became ‘when not if’
- URL: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/video-how-reversed-grids-in-f1-became-when-not-if/
- Published: 2020-06-17T13:37:09.000Z
- Updated: 2023-09-16T18:51:42.000Z
- Description: Our latest video charts Formula 1’s recent efforts to make reversed-grids a reality, why it’s been so keen to do so, and the arguments of the plan’s opponents
- Author: Matt Beer
- Tags: Formula 1, #video, #image-center-center

Though Formula 1’s push to trial reversed-grid qualifying races at its 2020 repeat grands prix was blocked by Mercedes, a tweak to F1’s governance process puts the idea firmly back on the agenda for 2021.

[Our latest video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAO5stJaMrY&ref=the-race.com) charts F1’s recent efforts to make reversed-grids a reality, why it’s been so keen to do so, and the arguments of the plan’s opponents.

We also explain the new factors that have made a reversed-grid format much more likely to become part of F1 in 2021.