campank
03-12-2004, 11:54 PM
With all the bad press the current two-session saturday qualifying has been getting, the likelihood of its replacement is very high. So does anyone have any ideas on what would be the optimum qualifying format? Some of the ideas that have been floating around the paddock lately are scrapping the first saturday session and have just one qualifying period period. BAR's David Richards proposed the idea of having the first session session be based on the 2002 style qualifying then have the second session be like the 2003 format.
As a home viewer I didn't really mind the single-lap qualifying of 2003, however when I went to a grand prix last year, I understand why a lot of people really didn't like the format. Because unless you had a monitor in view, there was a lot of waiting around except of course, for the three seconds when a car drove past you.
I really liked the fuel strategy element that was introduced last year. So I was thinking what could be really neat is if we could have a mix of 2003 and 2002 qualifying: hot laps with parc ferme. Cars would run in a similar setup as in 2002, with free access to the pits for any mid-qualifying changes. Then on a team's hot lap they would have until the end of the cool-down lap to 'declare' the hot lap as their official qualifying time. Then the car would enter parc ferme. And 2003's parc ferme rules would apply.
I think this would be pretty cool, since teams could get multiple runs it would make up for the 'DC effect', and teams could prepare their cars with fuel/tyres ahead of each hot lap. With the one-engine rule, teams would be under more pressure to take their laps early on for fear of over-taxing the engine.
so anyway that's my idea, Tell me if you think its got some merit, or if I am full of crap 8) . Got a better idea for qualifying? Lets hear it!
Cheers!
As a home viewer I didn't really mind the single-lap qualifying of 2003, however when I went to a grand prix last year, I understand why a lot of people really didn't like the format. Because unless you had a monitor in view, there was a lot of waiting around except of course, for the three seconds when a car drove past you.
I really liked the fuel strategy element that was introduced last year. So I was thinking what could be really neat is if we could have a mix of 2003 and 2002 qualifying: hot laps with parc ferme. Cars would run in a similar setup as in 2002, with free access to the pits for any mid-qualifying changes. Then on a team's hot lap they would have until the end of the cool-down lap to 'declare' the hot lap as their official qualifying time. Then the car would enter parc ferme. And 2003's parc ferme rules would apply.
I think this would be pretty cool, since teams could get multiple runs it would make up for the 'DC effect', and teams could prepare their cars with fuel/tyres ahead of each hot lap. With the one-engine rule, teams would be under more pressure to take their laps early on for fear of over-taxing the engine.
so anyway that's my idea, Tell me if you think its got some merit, or if I am full of crap 8) . Got a better idea for qualifying? Lets hear it!
Cheers!