New Formula 1 Qualifying Rules!
- Thread starter Skeeter
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Sounds good, let's have that for races 1 to 4, then knockout for 5 to 8, then the old system for 9 to 12, and then 2 more styles voted by the fans, and then the last race of the season is decided by a game of "Its a Knockout".
As you know, I'm far from the camp of claiming Bernie is a senile old fool deliberately setting out to kill F1, as others claim. F1 would have been dead years ago were it not for him.
However, as he was one of the main driving forces behind F1s current rule making committee, in this specific instance yes, he is an idiot. For both instigating the stupid system in the first place, and for thinking that a few years later everyone will have forgot he instigated it while he rants about how bad it is.
However, as he was one of the main driving forces behind F1s current rule making committee, in this specific instance yes, he is an idiot. For both instigating the stupid system in the first place, and for thinking that a few years later everyone will have forgot he instigated it while he rants about how bad it is.
The end game is actually quite logical. What they want is for the order of cars after qualifying on Saturday to be different to the cars race pace on Sunday. Having slower cars in front of faster cars on the grid is a good thing.
But because they are a bunch of selfish clowns unable to organise a booze up in a brewery, they are missing the obvious solutions. Rather than breaking qualifying or sticking loads of artificial rubbish in to try and force the order to mix up, seperate qualifying and the race so they naturally produce a different outcome.
Firstly they could drop the linking of the tyre strategy between qualifying and the race.
Then perhaps use a specific qualifying tyre that isn't used in the race? A natural variation in cars performances on different tyres should mix things up.
Maybe slacken the qualifying parc ferme rules so that teams can run qualifying setups. Lower drag wings and high use engine maps. There would need to be some cost control here however.
Then open up the strategy in the race too, use whatever tyres you want (from an allocation) and stop as many times as you need too.
Just changing that lot could see someone like Williams stick a low drag wing on and go balls to the wall and stick a car on pole, and then fit hard tyres and high down force wings to it and aim for a 1 stop race. The guy in 15th who fluffed his qualifying up might decide to go for the softest tyres available and some low drag wings and aim for 3 stops and lots of overtaking, like we have seen RBR do a few times.
Naturally mixing things up without stupid gimmicks. With the current tyre rules the teams have already chosen their race strategies for the first 4 races of the year, which is stupid. Teams cannot react and adjust their race based on qualifying any more. Qualifying is basically the first lap of the race, and then they carry on from there.
But because they are a bunch of selfish clowns unable to organise a booze up in a brewery, they are missing the obvious solutions. Rather than breaking qualifying or sticking loads of artificial rubbish in to try and force the order to mix up, seperate qualifying and the race so they naturally produce a different outcome.
Firstly they could drop the linking of the tyre strategy between qualifying and the race.
Then perhaps use a specific qualifying tyre that isn't used in the race? A natural variation in cars performances on different tyres should mix things up.
Maybe slacken the qualifying parc ferme rules so that teams can run qualifying setups. Lower drag wings and high use engine maps. There would need to be some cost control here however.
Then open up the strategy in the race too, use whatever tyres you want (from an allocation) and stop as many times as you need too.
Just changing that lot could see someone like Williams stick a low drag wing on and go balls to the wall and stick a car on pole, and then fit hard tyres and high down force wings to it and aim for a 1 stop race. The guy in 15th who fluffed his qualifying up might decide to go for the softest tyres available and some low drag wings and aim for 3 stops and lots of overtaking, like we have seen RBR do a few times.
Naturally mixing things up without stupid gimmicks. With the current tyre rules the teams have already chosen their race strategies for the first 4 races of the year, which is stupid. Teams cannot react and adjust their race based on qualifying any more. Qualifying is basically the first lap of the race, and then they carry on from there.
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That does deal with my concern that eliminating in Q3 would see qualifying fizzle out into boring nothingness rather than provide any excitement (10 cars going for pole in the last few seconds of the session will be more exciting than 2), but it is still a system in Q1 and Q2 that will be massively unfair if there are red or yellow flags.
Does that mean that Q3 will now be reduced to 8 cars rather than 10?
(on a side note, this now means that the FIA proposal to 'shake up the grid' will now only shake up the back of the grid, not actually solving the 'issue' they seemed to want to solve
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Does that mean that Q3 will now be reduced to 8 cars rather than 10?
(on a side note, this now means that the FIA proposal to 'shake up the grid' will now only shake up the back of the grid, not actually solving the 'issue' they seemed to want to solve
)The teams felt oblidged to agree with the proposals to feed an image of "at least doing something" following a flock of meetings where they agreed nothing. Boulier confirmed they didn't really like the idea but approved it anyway.
It's not even been confirmed yet, the WMC meet on Friday to see if it will even be approved.
It's not even been confirmed yet, the WMC meet on Friday to see if it will even be approved.
