Originally Posted by Assa2:
“It's a terrible decision. They've totally ignored the drivers' opinion or the compromise that had been put forward. They've taken something that wasn't broken and broken it in the hope it solves a perceived issue, which it won't. Qualifying will be boring as hell now as car after car drops out, reducing the field and actually reducing the chances of something surprising happening. Q3 will end painfully from now on. I won't be surprised to see this dispensed with inside 4 or 5 races.”
“It's a terrible decision. They've totally ignored the drivers' opinion or the compromise that had been put forward. They've taken something that wasn't broken and broken it in the hope it solves a perceived issue, which it won't. Qualifying will be boring as hell now as car after car drops out, reducing the field and actually reducing the chances of something surprising happening. Q3 will end painfully from now on. I won't be surprised to see this dispensed with inside 4 or 5 races.”
That's the thing that puzzles me.
Of all the stuff that's wrong with F1, quali' seems like it's one of the most not-broken parts.
I'm trying to imagine what the idea of this new system is.
Are they trying to create a situation where everybody just "goes for it" and burns through all their option tyres in a bid to stay in quali?
Trouble is, if they do that, they're going to end up with a situation where the first laps of quali' will be the fastest and then it'll get slower and slower as the remaining drivers only have primes to run on.
This seems to be yet another idea that's sole intention is to create some short-term chaos while the teams work out how to adapt to it and then it'll just settle into a routine.
I can't help thinking that a lot of these ideas are just being made in the hope that Mercedes will be tardy in adapting and giving some of the other teams a few points in hand at the start of the season.




Sums up F1, ignore the things that actually need changing and change those that were working well.