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Car Forum / Ferrari Cars / May 2005

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F1 Qualifying to Change (more reasonably)

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F2005: 0 of 3 - 21 May 2005 15:44 GMT
From Autosport:-

Formula One teams reached a unanimous agreement on Friday to scrap the
unpopular aggregate qualifying system and run just one session on
Saturday to decide the grid, Autosport-Atlas can exclusively reveal.

The International Automobile Federation (FIA) said on Friday that the
10 teams had already "agreed unanimously to a proposal to change the
qualifying procedure for Formula One with immediate effect".

The proposal is now in the hands of the Formula One Commission and the
World Council and the FIA said the results of a fax vote should be
through in time to change for the next race at the Nurburgring.

The change is yet another in a long list of modifications to
qualifying which began with the introduction of one-lap qualifying
two-and-a-half years ago.

The first solution saw two sessions run over Friday and Saturday then
they were put back to back on a Saturday before moving the second to
Sunday this year.

The new system will see just one single qualifying session, which will
be run on Saturday starting at one o'clock, with cars in full race
set-up.

Teams would be unable to refuel the cars or modify them between
qualifying and the race. The running order would be the same as it is
at the moment on Saturday, with the winner of the previous race having
the advantage of going out last.

The Sunday session has found little favour with broadcasters, some of
whom have declined to show it live, while other influential figures
have been scathing.

Since the old free-for-all Saturday session was abolished at the end
of 2002 for a single lap format, there have been experiments with
qualifying on Friday and Saturday as well as running two sessions
together on Saturday.

Many still hanker after the old days, before varying fuel levels made
qualifying a strategic mystery, when fans could be sure that the
fastest driver was on pole.

Fiat and Ferrari head Luca di Montezemolo, speaking at the San Marino
Grand Prix last month, derided a system that left fans in the dark
about who was on pole position when they picked up their Sunday
morning newspapers.

World Champion Michael Schumacher on Thursday backed a change to the
current system.

"I think that is reasonable but it would be nice to stick with that
qualifying for once," said Schumacher. "When we change it hopefully we
won't change it again and again."

The move means there will be no F1 action on Sunday mornings.
Michael Delaney - 21 May 2005 23:08 GMT
> From Autosport:-
>
> Formula One teams reached a unanimous agreement on Friday to scrap the
> unpopular aggregate qualifying system and run just one session on
> Saturday to decide the grid, Autosport-Atlas can exclusively reveal.

I totally agree with this, of course for the selfish reason that it is
much harder to be up at 3:30 am than it is 4:30 am!

:-|

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