new qualifying format by FOTA

[timbo]

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/72203

rather fresh, kinda NeedForSpeed'ish

[GTO]

Sound good to me. =D> I never liked the varying fuel limits for quali.
I feel the need for speed this weekend.

[D'Leh]

Hope they plan to do a live broadcasting of the stewards meeting after the session. Otherwise there would be no point in watching the qualifying.

[GTO]

Hope they plan to do a live broadcasting of the stewards meeting after the session. Otherwise there would be no point in watching the qualifying.

Why?

[Scotracer]

Hope they plan to do a live broadcasting of the stewards meeting after the session. Otherwise there would be no point in watching the qualifying.

Why?

He's insinuating that the stewards judge results in F1 these days and not the track action

[axle]

That sounds like chaos to me. If they can make it work then fine but I can just see it being a mess.

[Jersey Tom]

All the cars on the track at once doesn't sound like a good idea. At Monaco youd have at MOST 3 seconds between cars, and with pace difference being up to 2 seconds per lap it would be a real bitch to get any sort of time in.

Wouldn't be so much qualifying as a mini race where you can easily get screwed by being stuck behind someone.

Thumbs down.

[modbaraban]

rather fresh, kinda NeedForSpeed'ish

I just want to watch the RACE on SUNDAY. On SATURDAY I want to see who'se the fastest over 1 lap on the limit. The current system was already unnecessarily overcomplicated to mix (or mess) things up for the race.

What's next? Are they going to award chacolate medals for quali success?
What if the OWG finds out about NFS "rubber band" system?

If you think of it, the proposed format is the same as this... only way more expensive.

[djos]

They should ditch the current Q3 system and replace it with the 1 lap shootout to decide the top 10!

this all at once idea is a joke!

[D'Leh]

Hope they plan to do a live broadcasting of the stewards meeting after the session. Otherwise there would be no point in watching the qualifying.

Why?

Because drivers and teams will find lots of reasons to complain when there are 20 cars on the track and every lap is critical. Look how much complaining and penalizing there was already with the current system.

[pgj]

This style of qualifying will inevitably bring with it the likelihood of more on track conflict. My only concern is that stewards decisions should be consistent from race meeting to another over the course of the whole season. A published set of penalties for the new for the new qualifying would be essential IMO.

[andartop]

One could argue for hours what was good or bad with the old quali or the old points system, and what was improved or got even worse with the new ones, but it is a FACT that instability in the regulations can only damage the sport in the long term. Just look at what they did with the WRC, look at what happened after they started changing the regulations every year.. I m not against change in general, but in a sport where billions are at stakes I figure the participants need the security offered by (at least some) stability in the regulations. And as for the fans, a good argument against constant changes would be to maintain some capacity to compare future with past results, up to a point. If there are so many variables, other than the obvious evolution of cars and tires, there is no point whatsoever in comparison, which I think is sad...

[axle]

LOL The car that wins the shoot out is the one that can sit by the lights of the pitlane whilst running, for the longest...ie and gets the lead position.

This option is retarded.

I agree a single shot for pole, based on a running order determined by Q2 would be best. Gives all the top 10 air time too that they are so precious about.

[myurr]

Whilst there are some obvious downsides due to congestion on the track, this new format would allow for some interesting strategy. Such as teams at the back of the grid (Honda I'm looking at you being able to fuel for a shorter run knowing that they don't have the pace to run at the front, and so deliberately running out of fuel before the end of qualifying.

[axle]

Whilst there are some obvious downsides due to congestion on the track, this new format would allow for some interesting strategy. Such as teams at the back of the grid (Honda I'm looking at you being able to fuel for a shorter run knowing that they don't have the pace to run at the front, and so deliberately running out of fuel before the end of qualifying.

Not really racing/qualifying though is it.

What happened to the good old days when the fastest car was on pole? Stripped bare, banzai, qualifying...