Twaddle wrote:I've had an idea for a while that would both get more out of the saturday and should give a somewhat more unpredictable grid on sunday:
Keep 3 sessions of qualifying, but change them into 10 lap sprint races (no points awarded). Q1 grid is reverse championship order, Q2 grid is finishing order from Q1 and Q3 grid is finishing order from Q2. EDIT: I forgot to explicitly say that the grid for the championship race would be the finishing order from Q3.
Saturdays should be awesome to watch and then you have the championship event on sunday that is still unlikely to start with all the fastest cars at the front. Qualifying would also place more emphasis on a driver's ability to pass and defend rather than the outright pace of the car and you'd have more incentive to design a car that's good in traffic as well as in clean air.
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It also means that a team starts the season badly, but can win the development race during the season will find it easier to catch up in the championship. Likewise, a team that has a fast car but reliability problems will find it easier to catch up once they fix their reliability issues. Both of which should be good for the championship.
I like your idea. If that is the way the fia gets convinced then it's ok for me.
Your idea is basically to divide the race in two days. Start the race from saturday (using the reverse lineup) and continue it on sundays. The q1 q2 q3 format that you mention is equivalent of taking the pace car twice during the saturday stint.
I think it would be better to leave saturdays as they are now and use them as a driver-track confrontation competition without traffic, and reward the best driver/team on an empty track. Then on sundays the test is further stressed by the inclusion of traffic as the ability that drivers need to develop if they want to win the race.
Saturdays, I think, could be rewarded with WDC points or, better still, with a parallel championship. I would call it the "pure speed championship" or so and sundays' championship would be the "Racing Championship". How do you like this?