The 70s and 80s never saw entire grids covered by less than 4 seconds.
The problem with current F1 is faster cars cannot overtake slower ones, even with assistance.
Poll: Is the 2016 F1 Qualifying format better than the 2015 format?
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The 70s and 80s never saw entire grids covered by less than 4 seconds.
The problem with current F1 is faster cars cannot overtake slower ones, even with assistance.
The races have been pretty decent this year so far. Having 3 tyre compounds available has made a big difference (obviously, because its along the lines of what everyone has been asking for for years anyway 
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Its a shame that most people will be turning away based on the steaming **** that is the continual qualifying debacle.
).#Its a shame that most people will be turning away based on the steaming **** that is the continual qualifying debacle.
Bernie and the FIA can decide whatever they want for the 2017 season, so expect a crackpot stupid idea to emerge from the senile old idiots over the coming months.
Eh? How do you come to the conclusion is saves money? The saving of a couple of sets of tyres would be vastly outweighed by the damage to wings and bodywork, and the need to increase the allocation of engines and gearboxes to support it.
Putting everyone in reverse order is not going to generate a clean race. You just have to look at any reverse grid series to see that.
Plus, its still going to be difficult to overtake. Your not going to see someone come from last to 1st in 15 laps at Monaco.
Reverse grids are a stupid idea in any formula where there isn't either car parity or a wealth of overtaking. Plus they also need to be cheap formulas in terms of damage repair.
The 3 session qualifying works fine. People should park it and put their attention on the things that need fixing.
Putting everyone in reverse order is not going to generate a clean race. You just have to look at any reverse grid series to see that.
Plus, its still going to be difficult to overtake. Your not going to see someone come from last to 1st in 15 laps at Monaco.
Reverse grids are a stupid idea in any formula where there isn't either car parity or a wealth of overtaking. Plus they also need to be cheap formulas in terms of damage repair.
The 3 session qualifying works fine. People should park it and put their attention on the things that need fixing.
I have zero confidence in any sort of sensible, well thought out proposal coming from the FIA. And it's all irrelivent next to the monumental catastrophy that is the 2017 Technical Regulations. Nobody will care about Saturday because Sunday will just be 2 hours of utterly nothing happening so nobody will bother watching.
Wider cars can be a good thing for overtaking. It increases the drag for a leading car and increases the slipstreaming effect for following ones.
But it's all insignificant in a set of regulations that increases the size and complexity of front and rear wings, increase the height and complexity of the rear diffuser, and reintroduces the mess of on body wings and flip ups.
But it's all insignificant in a set of regulations that increases the size and complexity of front and rear wings, increase the height and complexity of the rear diffuser, and reintroduces the mess of on body wings and flip ups.