Comments on: F1 links: November 21st

By: winterbear

winterbear — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:46:59 +0000

NOOOOO… dont change qualifying!! its a lot of fun to watch right now. These changes sound like they would make qualifying considerably less exciting.

Seriously.. 14 little one lap qualifying stints seems like a huge step backward.

By: Smitty

Smitty — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:10:55 +0000

I’ve got a new proposition for the qualifying format: To stop screwing around with it! Apart from the race fuel aspect, our present format is good. Don’t change it yet again!!!

By: Jonesracing82

Jonesracing82 — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:53:55 +0000

all this stuff about the quali format is getting ridiculous!
if they really want race fuel etc then make the teams lock in the strategy before qualifying, let them quali on low fuel then refuel to the strategy afterwards!
either give us back the old 12 lap 1 hr format or keep it as it and drop the bloody fuel in q3 ********!

By: Dave Spurr

Dave Spurr — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:24:08 +0000

What’s wrong with FOTA, why all these piddly little changes to things (that aren’t very good ideas anyway) surely they should be worrying about bigger things, I can think of a few without any effort:

* Losing GP’s such as Canada, France and possibly China from the calendar.
* The god ugly 2009 cars
* Overly restrictive regulations on car design which gives very little competitive advantage (so they’re forced to chase hundredths/tenths in areas that hurt the sport)
* The flip-flopping of the FIA on regulations (e.g. engine freeze, engine un-freeze — just for now though you understand until everyone’s equal – hah)
* Losing smaller teams

I think most people would agree that the qualifying format we’ve had for the past two years has been one of the more entertaining ones out of the myriad of versions we’ve had over recent seasons. The only change most people seem to be asking for is dropping the race fuel in Q3 so we get a representative battle for the purest, fastest one lap.

FOTA should concentrate on the bigger issues right now as there are so many that are much more damaging to the sport than the not-quite-perfect qualifying format.

By: Robert McKay

Robert McKay — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:56:51 +0000

The proposed new qualifying format sounds extremely messy. How is the director going to keep up? It’s hard enough at the moment when you have 3 focal points, i.e. the ends of Q1, Q2 and Q3, with drivers on the bubble/going for pole at each juncture.

But this would have 15 of those sort of moments, as far as I can tell.

Maybe they should do this on Friday, winner gets….something (I don’t know what), and keep quali as it is with the exception of removing race fuel.