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One-lap qualifying

  • 16-09-2003 11:12am
    #1
    Da Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 193 ✭✭


    I initially thought that the changed qualifying format would lead to a bit more unpredictability, but it seems the teams have all come to a similar strategy on qualifying and the grid looks more or less like it did before the qualifying format changed. The down-side with one-lap qualifying is that it's only the qualifying performance of maybe 3-4 drivers that's interesting, so the rest of it is a waste of entertainment. In the good ol' days those 3-4 drivers would have been swapping pole times during the hour and it was quite exciting. I hope the FIA changes back to the old way next season.


Comments

  • #2
    AngelofFire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,450 ✭✭✭AngelofFire


    The one lap qualifying isnt as good as the old format as we not longer have situations where the drivers go head to head over a number of laps this makes it more exciting. The old format is also better from the point of view of the spectator under the new system spectators do not know the Qualifying times or grid positions until the session is over.

    I think the FIA should bring back the old 12 lap 1 hour session but they should keep it in the regulations that the cars must be left in parc Fermè on saturday night and that they must qualify on the same fuel load that they raced with. This could really lead to some interesting races.


  • #3
    zeris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 401 ✭✭zeris


    Part of the problem before was the first 30 minutes of the qualification session was really quiet. This probably doesn't affect spectators at the track as much as TV. I do miss the last 7 minutes of the old qualifing sessions. Often edge of the seat stuff.


  • #4
    jongore
    Closed Accounts Posts: 559 ✭✭✭jongore


    I like the 1 lap qualifying, it's a real test of the drivers and it has added some unpridicibility to the grid.
    Although you wouldn't expect a Minardi (Or God help us a Jordan) near the front it isn't unusual for one of the big names to end up near the back.


  • #5
    Da Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 193 ✭✭Da Man


    Big names like Jacques Villeneuve...

    It seems to me that there were better ways to rectify the stampede towards the end of the session, e.g. force the teams to spread out the laps through-out the session somehow.


  • #6
    Washout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,912 ✭✭✭Washout


    I actually find the new qualifying system alot more interesting and exciting but it does have its flaws.

    Id more like to see the new qualifying but drivers get friday qualifying to be like saturday qualifying in that on friday evening everyone has posted a time and they know what they have to do for saturday qualifying.

    The whole friday thing is a bit of a joke to be honest. Im right in assuming that friday qualifying only determines position of when you go out on saturday rite?

    Also how is qualifying normally done for moto GP these days? maybe the approach they use can be incorporated somehow


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