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GP3 are also splitting qualifying, no surprise there, with the number of over excited teenagers.

Here’s the plan for the session. Looks like they’ll just combine all the times at the end of it, they haven’t said the grid will be assembled any other way:

For the first time in GP2 Series’ history, the qualifying session in Monaco will be divided into two groups.

Following a ballot which took place today, it has been decided that Group A will be even numbers whilst Group B will be odd numbers.

Group A will thus take part in the first part 14 minutes of Thursday’s qualifying session, and Group B will follow.

Group A
02. Josef Kral
04. Felipe Nasr
06. Nathanaël Berthon
08. Jolyon Palmer
10. Esteban Gutiérrez
12. Giedo van der Garde
14. Stefano Coletti
16. Stéphane Richelmi
18. Fabrizio Crestani
20. Ricardo Teixeira
22. Simon Trummer
24. Victor Guerin
26. Max Chilton

Group B
01. Johnny Cecotto
03. Davide Valsecchi
05. Fabio Leimer
07. Marcus Ericsson
09. James Calado
11. Rodolfo Gonzalez
15. Fabio Onidi
17. Julian Leal
19. Giancarlo Serenelli
21. Tom Dillmann
23. Luiz Razia
25. Nigel Melker
27. Rio Haryanto

If, as in Spain, the track is fastest when it has F1 rubber down, those in Group A are surely going to have a significant advantage?

I actually hope one group is clearly hugely disadvantaged by the track massively improving or weather conditions- then they might not be stupid enough to ever do it again.

I wonder if rearranging the grid lines so they are two by two, and having one group qualifying for inside and one for outside, giving the best line to the group with the fastest time might be fairer – I think they do this in Indycar, with a third session for just the top 6.

If they’re going with split qualy, they could have at least made it a bit more fair. Maybe the faster half of each group would advance, and the fastest half would then have a fight for pole…

splitting quali is ridiculous. You get almost the same thing in f1, except in gp2 the cars are much closer together! In f1 there are often massive gaps from front 2 back, but not in gp2. For something thats supposed to be preparing drivers for f1, it’s not doing that well on some occasions