Qualifying petition

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bernard
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Qualifying petition

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Please, please sign this petition to change the current qualifying format. If we get enough signatures the petition will be sent to Mosley. Hopefully he will finally come to his sences and switch back to 1 hour/12 laps qualifying.
There were 116 signatures by the time I posted this. Something like 500 would be nice. The more the better.
Post this link on some other F1 forums, so we can make a change. :D
http://www.petitiononline.com/F1Q/petition.html

EDIT: the number is now 126; 10 new signatures since this morning. Keep 'em coming. Spread the word and try to make as many people sign it as possible.

dumrick
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I'd sign a petition to rain in all qualy sessions...

bernard
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dumrick wrote:I'd sign a petition to rain in all qualy sessions...
In that case I can give you an advise: try lottery. Basically the same, only you can win some money on it.

dumrick
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Yes, Bernard, it's a lottery. But it can provide for more exciting racing and, in the end, the champion will always be the best one...

In fact, I'm tired about this discussions about qualifying formats, and we've not yet seen this one working enough to judge it. What I know is that, at least, one lap qualifying allows everybody to see everyone's fast laps, unlike in the hour-long formats where, when there was a Ferrari or so on track, you lost the laps from everybody else...

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dumrick wrote:Yes, Bernard, it's a lottery. But it can provide for more exciting racing and, in the end, the champion will always be the best one...

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how do you figure champion will be the best one?

the champion will be the lucky one.(just like the lottery)

hudsonhawk
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Bernie Bro,

Start a petition to get rid of Mosley and qualifying will be rectified. Nothing like killing 2 birds with the stone...... :idea: ......Hey "sharkie no spark plug", wheres shytemaker???.....(and dont say he is crashing into people and running into his garage soooking......cause i said it :shock: !!!)......anyway, i wanna introduce you to a stone....... :D ....i gotta stop watching cartoons.

Catchya on the Highway

Hudsonhawk.

dumrick
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sharkie17 wrote:
dumrick wrote:Yes, Bernard, it's a lottery. But it can provide for more exciting racing and, in the end, the champion will always be the best one...

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how do you figure champion will be the best one?

the champion will be the lucky one.(just like the lottery)
Lucky? Why shouldn't be the faster ones to qualify more often at the front? Last year, we had already one lap qualifying and the Ferraris were usually in front. Were they lucky and not the best ones? We haven't yet seen the potential of this rules and people want already to change them...

bernard
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dumrick wrote: Lucky? Why shouldn't be the faster ones to qualify more often at the front? Last year, we had already one lap qualifying and the Ferraris were usually in front. Were they lucky and not the best ones? We haven't yet seen the potential of this rules and people want already to change them...
With the exact words of david coulthard I could say:
"one lap per driver spanned out over an hour wil never work because of the changing conditions."
It just wont work, no matter how idiotic a system Mosley will change it to next year, his one lap qualifying will never work. The track gets better as the qualifying progresses, by 5-6 tenths of a second. This is why in the old format they didn't come out in the first 20 minutes, apart from minardi. This too could be solved by making them run a lap on the first fifteen minutes, which, incidentally, was what coulthard said too. The first intelligent comment he has made in the last six years, instead of the ususal "I'm as good as kimi" and "this is my year", comments.