New Formula 1 Qualifying Rules!

Did you even read your link?

Durable tyres will be needed for the constant running and cars will need to be packed full of fuel to last, if no pit stops are allowed. Grids will likely be more mixed up but it is a much more confusing system and answers a question that no one really asked.
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Why would they bother caveating that statement if they were as certain as you? Their source also just appears to be motorsport.com.

Also you're asking questions about things for which, as the original link says, the details haven't been formulated.
 
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I'm not certain, I've covered both bases. If pit stops aren't allowed its a stupid system, and if pit stops are allowed its a stupid system due to the time it takes to make a stop. I even did all that maths and stuff using a worked example at Spa :p.

It's a stupid set of rules whichever way you read them. The red flag thing nails it for me, there's no way the WMC would approve it, they'd have to be bat crap crazy.
 
Not if you throw one with 15 minutes to go it doesn't.

You could throw a red flag at Spa 3 and a half minutes into Q1, before anyone has set a time, and have effectively eliminated last place. Everyone comes back to the pits, the session restarts, 3 and a half minutes later, still nobody has set a time, and you have to eliminate the last place driver. But who would that be? Nobody has set a time?
 
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Was this something that was broken previously?
The qualifying format we had, actually seemed to work well, or have I been watching a different "sport"? :confused:

Clowns in charge, of an expensive circus.

I just... WTH?
 
This all sounds perfect for the casual viewer that they are trying to attract to the sport... Oh no wait they will go wtf and turn over and watch something else. (That's if they've even got the F1 channel or one of half the races shown by c4. So I guess my point is invalid as there won't be many casuals about anyway..:p)
 
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This all sounds perfect for the casual viewer that they are trying to attract to the sport... Oh no wait they will go wtf and turn over and watch something else. (That's if they've even got the F1 channel or one of half the races shown by c4. So I guess my point is invalid as there won't be many casuals about anyway..:p)
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What about it would make a casual fan turn off that the current format wouldn't. Currently someone might turn on, find themselves watching Q3 and seeing no cars out on track for 5 minutes then getting bored and turning off.... the new rules would suggest there will be constant circulation and likely multiple people at any given time doing fast laps. Not sure how this would make people turn off.

All we ever hear about from Sky is how everything is so complicated.... if you say that people think they won't be able to understand and give up. Qualifying, they all get a chance to put in a time, the slowest then get eliminated every 90 seconds as they all try to better their times... is that really complicated?
 
It's all getting a bit complicated TBH.

Keep the three sessions as it is now. The stations with Ad breaks love it.

Scrap the 'fastest lap in Q2 is the tyres you'll start the race on' rubbish. It just confuses matters. Let them start on whatever tyres they want, but they have to nominate a compound before Qualifying starts.

Make the top ten start in reverse order, but to make sure drivers drive their cars hardest give 5 points for Pole, 3 for second and 1 for third. If a driver is consistently fast over one lap they could be looking at 30-50 points over the season. That's more than a race win.
 
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It's all getting a bit complicated TBH.

Keep the three sessions as it is now. The stations with Ad breaks love it.

Scrap the 'fastest lap in Q2 is the tyres you'll start the race on' rubbish. It just confuses matters. Let them start on whatever tyres they want, but they have to nominate a compound before Qualifying starts.

Make the top ten start in reverse order, but to make sure drivers drive their cars hardest give 5 points for Pole, 3 for second and 1 for third. If a driver is consistently fast over one lap they could be looking at 30-50 points over the season. That's more than a race win.
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The problem with points for qualifying is F1 isn't an even playing field. Your rewarding the driver based on the teams effort in building a car. There's no 'racing' or strategy involved in Qualifying, its just about outright pace. Do you think F1 would have been better if we awarded Mercedes drivers an extra 3 to 5 points each race last year, meaning the title would have been decided way before the final race?

What we need is what you suggest, qualifying and the race to be completely detached to allow varying strategies and so that the grid isn't nessasarily just the cars lined up in outright pace order.
 
Doesn't sound very 'green' to me.
Not that I care about green issues in motorsport, but they seem to bleat on about it from time to time.
 
The only way I can see this being an improvement is if all cars have to have a fixed level of fuel onboard for each qualifying session, enough to cover something like 120% of the best pace shown by any car during practice plus a fuel sample, then all cars have to use the hardest compound.

This will maximise the gains from burning fuel and mean tyres are still going to be relatively decent when doing the 14th/15th lap of a session at Sao Paulo (fastest lap of the calendar at ~1min10secs?).
 
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I like it as to me it sounds like it will rejig the grid a little.
Anything to do that is a good thing. As it means more overtaking in the race

I can see why they did it
It's less artificial than reverse grids
Still rewards those who get it right
Hopefully doesn't mean fastest car pole etc etc

It won't be complicated after one session I bet
I play table top games and they always complicated until you see them played
 
I know why I like the idea so much, reminds me of when I used to play Quake 3 Arena all the time and the game mode Clan Arena where it was like team deathmatch but no respawns and no RJ damage, last man standing from each team :D:D
 
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