ChrisDanger wrote:Sounds like a recent Need for Speed race format, which could be interesting.
But I think many people here are very quick to judge any change as seemingly negative, before they've even had a chance to truly evaluate it (except in their distorted imaginations). Qualifying is still qualifying, and as such will always be interesting and exciting. It may be a little less exciting, it may be even more exciting. You will get used to it, and forget it was ever different.
SKy Kravitz:
Flaws in F1's new qualifying plans?
Some more thoughts from Ted Kravitz now on the proposed new qualifying format - and some potential pitfalls of the plans:
“I wonder whether the F1 bosses on the Commission pay attention to how F1 cars produce quick qualifying times. The best times are set when the tyre is on its first or second hot lap. After that, the best performance of the tyre is gone and the lap times don’t improve.
“So the reality is that teams will not just go out onto the track and keep going round and round to set quicker times. They’ll go out, set what they hope is the quickest time on a fresh tyre, come back in, and let the slower cars get dropped one by one as the session progresses.
“The other thing that will upset the drivers and engineers who actually have to work with these new rules is they were dreamt up and imposed after all the other rule changes we’ve had, especially the ones about tyre usage.
“If you know now during qualifying that you’re going to have to be on track for quite a few laps, you might have chosen a different tyre allocation from Pirelli than you had when you were dealing with the old qualifying rules. Talk about moving the goal posts.”
funny thing is, they will probably do not allow refueling (in the garage anyway) during the sessions, to conquer the "quick lap done and then chill"-thing.... we'll see.
Finishing races is important, but racing is more important.