Australian Grand Prix 2016, Melbourne - Race 1/21
- Thread starter Shimmy
- Start date
Caporegime
- Joined
- 18 Oct 2002
- Posts
- 33,188
Palmer saves himself on his last lap after Q1 flag went out and Button jumped from ~19th to 3rd with 6mins remaing.
McLaren positions pretty decent after Q1, the new system of juggling things up works.
If it absolutely bucketed it down right now..... Q1 would form the grid
Basically they'll be glued to the big screens to keep up, why bother going if you're going to need to do that to understand what's going on :/
Watching split screen of two pit garages
Soldato
- Joined
- 15 Oct 2003
- Posts
- 15,611
- Location
- Chengdu
Mix up the grid, and make a better race?
Why not just throw qualifying away then?
Draw straws, or best out of three rock-paper-scissors...
Bloody FIA. How do they keep getting away with it?
Edit: As for it being "predictable" in the past...
It's f1... That's just how it is. If your front running team are a second faster a lap than everyone else, of course they'll be P1.
Why not just throw qualifying away then?
Draw straws, or best out of three rock-paper-scissors...
Bloody FIA. How do they keep getting away with it?
Edit: As for it being "predictable" in the past...
It's f1... That's just how it is. If your front running team are a second faster a lap than everyone else, of course they'll be P1.
And there's a lot of places that have a poor view or no view of a screen.
Indeed. I called that the moment they anounced it. Long laps and tyres that only last for 1 good lap was always going to result in most eliminations being of people not on track.
The aim of this change is to make the grid random. Not make qualifying actually any good to watch.
Like the 2017 aero rules have been designed to make the cars faster, with zero consideration about making the race better to watch.
The FIA will do what they aimed to do. It's just what they were aiming for is an utterly stupid target.
Caporegime
- Joined
- 18 Oct 2002
- Posts
- 33,188
SO, the slowest cars eliminated for being slowest while Sainz is out now trying to improve his time, as is Ricciardo and several other drivers are out there.
There are 8 cars putting in laps but it's not exciting because you've decided it's not exciting because you're focusing on the list and the drivers not running rather than watching the cars that are running.
Bottas was moved into the knock out zone, and then did a lap and got himself out, Sainz got himself out, now Hulk is in trouble and he's putting in a lap.... you're being completely ridiculous about this. There has been crucial lap after lap after lap with the order and who will get eliminated changing every 30 seconds.
Soldato
- Joined
- 15 Oct 2003
- Posts
- 15,611
- Location
- Chengdu
Guess that is right. Just disappointing, as I like watching cars on track, not a timer and guys "eliminated" whilst in the pits.
Glad the commentary don't have good words to say on it either.
Means I can give all the early quali sessions a miss this year though!
I'd rather go back to the old days, of no cars on the grid for 30 minutes, and chaos at the end. Or, a nice idea, go back to the format that worked perfectly. The last one.
Caporegime
- Joined
- 18 Oct 2002
- Posts
- 33,188
No, read my previous post, you're focused on the 2 guys in the pits who were already too slow to do better. You ignored the 8 guys circulating and putting in faster laps changing who would be eliminated every 30 seconds.